Honeywell, Inc. of Morristown, NJ has agreed to spend $451 million to clean up contaminated sediments in Onondaga Lake, NY, one of the most polluted lakes in the country. The lake is contaminated with mercury, benzene, toluene, PCBs and polychlorinated dioxins. Onondaga is one of only three lakes in the U.S. designated as Superfund sites. Allied-Signal caused most of the pollution, but Honeywell became responsible for cleanup when it purchased the company in 1999. Under the consent agreement, Honeywell will dredge some 2.65 million cubic yards of sediment form the lake bed, seal 579 acres of the lake floor with gravel and sand and clean the dredge water before returning it to the lake. Work will not be completed before 2015 at the earliest. For more information, see SR&ER Newsletter No. 76 of Dec 2004, No. 72 of Aug. 2004 and No. 64 of Dec. 2003.