N.Y.’s Westchester County To Clean Up C&D Landfill at Airport

More than 10 years since it stopped dumping construction and demolition debris, asphalt and tree stumps at the county airport, Westchester County, N.Y., has announced it will pay $1 million to haul the materials away and seal the site, according to a report in the Journal News (White Plains, N.Y.)

Four environmental clean up projects are underway at the airport, including the isolated acre that serves as a C&D landfill, according to the paper.

The proposal for the project, written by redevelopment firm Stearns & Wheler, Cazenovia, N.Y., calls for removing most of the C&D debris and then sealing the site under a watertight clay cap, the Journal News reports.

Westchester County purchased the land in the mid-1940s, and dumping operations continued until around 1990, Robert Funicello, Westchester’s environmental director, tells the paper.