"All of a sudden it was scraping a big wide blue, red and purple smear," said Lt. Michael Van Durme of the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
DEC investigators found more than 100 drums of paint and industrial solvents buried in a former gravel pit next to the Rolling Plains development.
The hazardous waste had been hidden there about 35 years earlier, an example of "midnight dumping" — surreptitious disposal of toxic substances in illicit dumps in rural areas around Rochester. Many of those sites await final government-directed cleanup decades after discovery, raising health concerns among residents and experts.
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