Pictured from left are Jacob Hatch, town of Lenox employee; T.J. Tornatore, Canastota Village DPW; Adam Ceserio, town of Lenox employee; Robert Heintz, Rasmussen Rents; Tony Ceserio, town of Lenox highway superintendent; Danny Pluff, town of Lenox employee; Michael Patane, President/CEO of the Great Swamp Conservancy. (Photo by Eleanor Jones)
(Town of Lenox, NY – Nov. 2014) Springing up from the rubble and debris of the village of Canastota’s old sidewalks, ground up roads of the town of Lenox, woodchips from the village’s pile of woodchips and ground debris from throughout the village, the new overlook at the Great Swamp Conservancy looms.
With the cooperative efforts of a for profit business, Rasmussen Rents of Route 5 Canastota, who provided the bulldozer, transported it to and from the site at an extremely low cost; the town of Lenox that trucked all the debris to the site and provided an operator who built the overlook and who also supplied large cement blocks for the top of the overlook for safety and security; the village of Canastota who provided the sidewalk debris and the woodchips the overlook was made a reality.
The village of Canastota DPW and the town of Lenox Highway Department had a large pile of debris from this past summer’s work combined and stored at the village DPW site and they needed a place to put it. With the generosity of the Rasmussen family, the business of Rasmussen Rents and Robert Hines, manager of the business, the town highway superintendent and the village DPW the GSC recycled the waste into a gigantic new overlook from where the grasslands, wetland, and woods can be viewed. It needs some finish work that cannot be done now because of the wet weather this fall but it’s expected that slowly, the area will turn into a new entrance to the trail system.
Town of Lenox Highway Superintendent Tony Ceserio orchestrated the entire operation.
The GSC is located at 8375 N. Main St., Canastota.