Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Oswego, NY

Oswego is a city and the county seat of Oswego County, standing at the mouth of the Oswego River on the southeastern shore of Lake Ontario, about 40 miles northwest of Syracuse.

The name Oswego comes from an Onondaga word meaning "pouring out place," a reference to the river pouring out into Lake Ontario.

The British established a trading post at Oswego in 1722, and the first Fort Ontario fortification was raised there in 1755.

Oswego was incorporated as a village on March 14, 1828; the Oswego Canal, a branch of the Erie Canal, arrived in 1829, and the community was incorporated as a city in 1848.

From August 1944 to February 1946, the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter housed about 982 Jewish refugees - it was the only Jewish refugee camp established in the United States during World War II, and the site is now the Safe Haven Museum.

The 2020 census counted 16,921 residents in Oswego, down from 18,142 in 2010, in about 7,206 households.

Oswego is buried by lake-effect snow even by upstate standards: its average seasonal snowfall is about 140 inches, and roughly 130 inches fell in just two weeks in 2007, breaking the Blizzard of 1966's mark of 102 inches - yet the city has never recorded a temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

Known as "The Port City," Oswego is home to the Port of Oswego and the H. Lee White Marine Museum on its harbor.

SUNY Oswego straddles the city-town line; founded in 1861 by Edward Austin Sheldon as the Oswego Primary Teachers' Training School, it pioneered the "Oswego Method" of object teaching that spread to schools across America and abroad, and it now enrolls nearly 8,000 students.

The Oswego Lakers men's ice hockey team won the 2007 NCAA Division III championship, the university's first team national title.