The State Attorney General filed a lawsuit against a property owner in Cortland County for desecrating a cemetery. “I went up to my wife’s grave and it looked like a ten foot waterfall and we don’t have waterfalls here.”
New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman filed a lawsuit Tuesday against a Cortland County property owner for allegedly flooding a cemetery causing the desecration of graves and forcing the disinterment and reburial of several bodies.
The lawsuit alleges that James C. Stevens III, who owns property near the St. Mary's Cemetery in Cortland, New York, undertook excavation activities in 2012 which diverted storm water into the cemetery inundating it with mud, rocks and debris. It also caused the flooding of New York State Route 281.
Stevens did not correct the environmental and public nuisance violations, despite the extensive damage caused to the cemetery, the lawsuit said.
Due to construction on his property, Stevens altered the direction of storm water runoff from 120 acres of land, the complaint alleges. Earlier, the water drained into a wooded area, but Stevens' activities redirected it to the cemetery's burial plots.
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