Waste Transfer Station Bill Update
June 12, 2008
As New York City pursues its Solid Waste Management plan, it is important to ensure that waste transfer facilities are not located in areas where they will cause undue harm to nearby economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, which have been shown to have higher asthma rates than other communities. Tthe City has proposed to construct a massive marine transfer station (MTS) at East 91st Street along the East River. The proposed MTS would be located less than 300 feet from two public housing projects – the Stanley Isaacs Houses and John Haynes Homes Towers. Additionally, the MTS would subject neighborhood residents – especially children, who are most vulnerable – to the pollution from constant streams of garbage trucks, while simultaneously destroying Asphalt Green, one of the area’s only parks.
Pictured here is the proposed site of a marine transfer station slated by Mayor Bloomberg for activation less than 600 feet away from two public housing projects. Photo taken from Gracie Point Community Council’s website.
Last month, I introduced a bill (A.10891A) that would prohibit the sighting of a solid-waste transfer station or facility within 600 feet of a public housing project, so that the City’s garbage management efforts do not unfairly burden communities that are already under-served. Senator Ruben Diaz, Sr. is sponsoring this legislation in the State Senate ( S.8168A).
I am pleased to report that yesterday the bill was unanimously reported out of the Assembly’s Environmental Conservation Committee. We are now one step closer to ensuring that a garbage station does not destroy our community.
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