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.
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