Everything about The Fresh Kills Landfill totally explained
The
Fresh Kills Landfill on the
New York City borough of
Staten Island in the
United States, was formerly the largest
landfill in the world, at 2200
acres (890 hectares), and was New York City's principal landfill in the second
half of the 20th century. The name "Fresh Kills" refers to its location along the banks of the
Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island.
History
Opened in 1948, it became one of the largest refuse heaps in human history. The site is 12 square km (4.6 square miles) in area; and when operational twenty barges, each carrying 650 tons of garbage, were shipped in every day. Had Fresh Kills stayed open as long as originally planned it would have grown to be the highest point on the
East Coast of the United States.
Staten Island Transfer Station
Staten Island Transfer Station is located on the site of the former Fresh Kills landfill. The transfer station - an integral part of New York City's Solid Waste Management Plan - is expected to process an average of 900 tons per day of Staten Island generated residential and municipal waste. The waste is compacted inside the facility into sealed high by long
intermodal shipping containers, which are then loaded, four containers each car, onto
flatbed rail cars to be hauled by rail to an Allied Waste
landfill in
South Carolina. The eight mile (13 km)
Staten Island Railway freight service which connects the facility to the national rail freight network, was reactivated in April 2007, after it had been closed in 1991.
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