The FLLT plans to preserve the property closer to the lake with only a few low-intensity improvements. The Bell Station nuclear plant was actually planned for and started on the land that the Milliken Power Plant is on, and Milliken’s access road goes right past what was the excavated site for Belle Station’s foundation, now a rocky shale pile with overgrowth. A planned auction of the property on behalf of NYSEG was called off in late September following bipartisan outcry from locally-elected state lawmakers and the intervention of Governor Hochul’s office.Īs informed by the Voice’s eagle-eyed readership, calling this property the “Bell Station” land is something of a misnomer.
The property has long been owned by NYSEG, who initially planned a nuclear power plant on the shores of Cayuga Lake in the 1960s. Among the vast property’s features are limestone lakeside cliffs on 3,454 feet of shoreline, two smaller gorges with waterfalls, and the usual swaths of picturesque countryside one tends to conjure up when describing the Finger Lakes. The property is now under contract.ĭescribed by the FLTT as the largest privately-owned shoreline parcel in the Finger Lakes, the “Bell Station” property includes about 470 acres of undeveloped land near the county’s northern boundary in the town of Lansing.
New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) and the Finger Lakes Land Trust (FLLT) have come to an acquisition agreement on the “Bell Station” property in the town of Lansing. For some folks, the news comes as some relief.