Tagged: pollution

9:38am

Fri November 9, 2012
Regional Coverage

Health study may be next step for Watertown residents concerned about pollution on north side

Credit Joanna Richards
DEC spokesman Stephen Litwhiler reads out audience questions during a public meeting about pollution on the north side Wednesday evening at North Elementary School in Watertown.

Residents of Watertown's north side community have expressed renewed concerns over pollution surrounding the New York Air Brake industrial site, which was cleaned up beginning in the 1990s. Officials from the state departments of Health and Environmental Conservation held a public meeting Tuesday night at a nearby elementary school to try to respond to those fears.

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