On this week’s episode of the AquaDiary Podcast, host Ally Berry examined the long and complicated environmental legacy of Onondaga Lake, where an estimated 165,000 pounds of mercury were discharged into the water between 1946 and 1970 — and where new mercury contamination was uncovered during marina renovations this spring. The episode explores the lake’s history as one of the nation’s most polluted bodies of water, the ongoing concerns raised by the Onondaga Nation, and the role major industrial companies played in decades of contamination tied to the federal Superfund cleanup effort.
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