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Business & Labor
Brooklyn Waterfront Rehabilitation Planned
(newyork.construction.com,
July 2006 issue)
A joint city,
state, and federal financing effort has yielded $36 million
for a project to convert the 14-acre Bush Terminal Piers site
in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood into a park.
The planned cleanup and redevelopment
of the waterfront from 43rd to 51st streets, to be overseen
by the New York City Economic Development Corp., entails:
- installation of a 2-ft. soil cover
on most of the site, with a 6-in. cover in a wooded area
- controls and monitoring for landfill
gas and groundwater
- removal of shallow pond sediments
and filling and covering of deep pond sediments
- and shoreline stabilization.
The park would have athletic fields,
walkways, a boat-building area, a fishing pier, and restaurant
booths. A pier rehabilitation and enhancement of wetlands
are also planned.
The site was contaminated in the 1970s
by illegal disposal of construction and demolition debris
and liquid wastes. The state Department of Environmental Conservation
has said the site does not pose significant threat to public
health or the environment.
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