A $266 million project to remediate the Brookfield Avenue Landfill in Staten Island has broken ground. The project which will transform the contaminated site into a 132-acre park is being funded with $166 million in city funding and $100 million in funding from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Brookfield site was operated by the Department of Sanitation from 1966 to 1980 accepting 1,000 tons of solid waste per day. In the 1970s, the NYS DEC determined that liquid and hazardous wastes were illegally dumped at the landfill and in 1986, it was classified as a Class II Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Site.