With the Town of Lansing passing its illicit discharge law Wednesday, and the Village about to craft theirs, discharging anything but actual water into streams and ditches will officially be illegal in Lansing.  You would normally think of an illicit discharge into the storm water system as automobile oil or misdirected sewage.  But Village Planning Board Chairman Ned Hickey pointed out another kind of illicit discharge into Lansing's storm water system -- shopping carts!

Evidently residents of the apartments east of the Cayuga Mall make off with shopping carts to bring their purchases home, then ditch them in the nearby stream.  About a half dozen were seen frozen into the ice along the stream bed and stuck at the entrance to the Graham Road culvert this week.

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