Essex County

Essex County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 39,370. Its county seat is Elizabethtown. Along with Hamilton County, Essex is entirely within the Adirondack Park.

Essex County is in the northeastern part of New York State, just west of Vermont along the eastern boundary of the State. The eastern boundary of Essex County is Lake Champlain, which serves as the New York – Vermont border at an elevation of just under 100 feet (30.5 m). The highest natural point in New York, Mount Marcy at 5,344 feet (1,629 m), is in the Town of Keene. The Ausable River forms a partial northern boundary for the county.

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Essex County Landfill in Lewis

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Formerly the last landfill in the Adirondack Park, it was closed in 1998 after a permit despute with the state, seeking to expand tonnage to 500 tons a day to take in garbage from Rennselear County and other location. The site still has room for future cells including some ready to be reopened but for now Essex County has been exporting garbage to the Franklin County landfill.

LEFT - Landfill circa 1996 while still open / RIGHT - Landfill circa 2020 after being closed for nearly 20 years 

Dam

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Hammond Pond is held back by a gravel berm and this wooden structure, which I s thinking is probably also to help the fish. It looks like part of the Hammond Pond Dam is washed out so it's much less of a dam then it once was.

Taken on Saturday June 27, 2020 at Hammond Pond.