City Starts Cleaning Brookfield Landfill in Staten Island
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
New York, NY –
City officials are starting to clean up the Brookfield Avenue landfill on Staten Island, nearly 30 years after illegal dumping contaminated the site.
The landfill used to take the city's solid waste from 1966 until 1980. It was also the site of illegal dumping of hazardous industrial materials in the 1970s.
Mayor Bloomberg says it's taken too long to start the clean up.
"While the guilty parties have long since been convicted, the Brookfield Avenue Landfill has remained exactly the same," said Mayor Bloomberg. "We'll begin remediating the site by topping the landfill with 2 million tons of soil and an impermeable cap that would prevent toxins from escaping."
The project will transform 132 acres of the toxic site into a park with about 17,000 new trees and shrubs. The $266 million project is set to be completed by 2017.
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