WE did a lot of work on our od 2 story wood frame house back in CNY. When we sold it after moving to SW FL, the real estate agent had it listed as "Dream House" in the paper.
Syracuse China had a big "dump" behind the plant. Ley Creek flowed past it. I guess tsome of that waste was carried downstream to the lake. I eleven Syracuse wastewater was dumped into Ley Creek too. It was a notorious polluted stream.
Reminds me of a visitor to the east shore of Onondaga Lake near Syracuse admiring the "white cliffs" on the west shoreline. They were waste piles from the Solvay Process plant there. Made the lake one of the most polluted in the US.