Photo of Andy Arthur

Andy Arthur

The color television assures us that April showers bring May flowers. 🌷🌻🌼 I'll believe it when I see it, though there are definite hints of the green up -- grass is looking greener in the city, some bushes are starting to bloom and there are signs of the days to come. Days have gotten longer, windows open and it's generally just nicer then not that long ago.

Harford Mills Brine Storage Ponds

There are two large brine storage ponds at the Enterprise Products Propane Storage facility in Harford Mills NY, outside of Ithaca and Cortland. They pump brine out of underground storage caverns and use it to store 680,000 BbLs of Propane.

https://www.enterpriseproducts.com/customers/natural-gas-liquids/#HarfordMillsNY

More about Brine Storage Ponds: https://www.layfieldgroup.com/geosynthetics/project-profiles/brine-storage-pond-storage-of-natural-gas-liquids-.aspx

Modern Route 10 overlaid on the old Arietta – Piseco Road (1954)

Modern Route 10 overlaid on the old Arietta - Piseco Road (1954)

New York Route 10 is often said to be the last paved state highway in New York when the Glen Harris Highway was paved north of Arietta up through Piseco Lake in the early 1980s.

Due to constitutional constraints relating to the road running through forest preserve, with few exceptions, almost all of modern asphalt road follows the path of the dirt road, although during construction they did bank the curves and widen the road slightly from the horse and buggy road that existed in almost the same form since the 1800s.

I have the 1904 topographic maps of the area too but due to issues with the original map survey, the overlay is more difficult to do accurately compared to the more modern 1954 survey. 

The modern alignment is shown in orange while the topographic map below is from 1954.

Burnt Hill

Burnt Hill

Looking across Reynoldsville towards the southern part of the Finger Lakes National Forest towards Burnt Hill.