Syracuse, N.Y. — Onondaga County plans to spend up to $1 billion to treat wastewater from Micron Technology’s planned chipmaking complex in Clay and the community growth expected to follow.
That’s more than the county spent on the decades-long sewer upgrades that cleaned up Onondaga Lake. And the expanded sewer system for Micron-related growth could transform the small Oak Orchard water treatment plant in Clay into an operation as sprawling as the Metropolitan treatment plant, which dominates Hiawatha Boulevard and serves more than 250,000 residents.