[CPEO-BIF] Brookfield Avenue Landfill, Staten Island, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New York City
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PR-143-10
April 5, 2010

MAYOR BLOOMBERG, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION COMMISSIONER HOLLOWAY, STATE 
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AND STATEN ISLAND OFFICIALS 
BREAK GROUND AT BROOKFIELD LANDFILL REMEDIATION PROJECT

Project Will Transform Contaminated Site into a 132-Acre Park

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Department of Environmental Protection 
Commissioner Cas Holloway, Congressman Michael E. McMahon and Staten 
Island Borough President James P. Molinaro today broke ground on a 
project to remediate the Brookfield Avenue Landfill in Staten Island. 
The Brookfield Avenue Landfill is a former municipal solid waste 
disposal site, where toxic materials were illegally dumped in the 1970s. 
The project will cover the 132-acre solid waste disposal portion of the 
site with 2 million tons of soil and an impermeable landfill cap and 
turn the site into parkland. The remaining acres, a mixture of 
undisturbed land, forest, wetlands and streams, will require no 
remediation. The remediation work will be completed in 2015 and tree and 
shrub plantings will be installed by 2017. The $266 million project is 
funded with $166 million of City funding and $100 million in funding 
from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. The 
Mayor also was joined at the ground breaking by New York State 
Department of Environmental Conservation Regional Director Suzanne 
Mattei, State Senator Andrew J. Lanza, Assemblyman Lou Tobacco, and City 
Council Members James S. Oddo and Vincent M. Ignizio.

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For the entire release, see
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nyc.gov%2Fhtml%2Fom%2Fhtml%2F2010a%2Fpr143-10.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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