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Community residents and activists are protesting the reopening and expansion of the 135th Marine Transfer Station. Residents say West Harlem/Northern Manhattan already carries more than its fair share of facilities that negatively impact the quality of life for those who live and work here: North River Sewage Treatment Plant processes waste water for the west side of Manhattan, Greenwich Village to Innwood, and is sited next to the MTS and six out of eight diesel bus depots in Manhattan are also located in West Harlem/Northern Manhattan. In 1998 when Mayor Giuliani announced the city’s proposal to build three new transfer stations in Red Hook, Brooklyn and Carteret and Newark, New Jersey, while continuing to utilize the existing Marine Transfer Garbage Stations in New York City, there was strong opposition from community groups and environmentalists. The Mayor’s proposal called for garbage to be trucked to the transfer stations where it would be off-loaded on to barges, rail and trucks to be transported to other sites for disposal. Community and environmental activists opposed the Mayor’s plans, suggesting that it was unnecessary to build new transfer stations and that it would be more cost efficient and environmentally sound to retrofit the existing marine transfer stations. Retrofitting would allow the garbage to be compacted and placed in containers which would then be loaded by cranes on to barges for water transport to designated incinerators and landfills. Since then, Fresh Kills has closed. The City now has to deal with solid waste management in a City that produces approximately 14,000 tons of garbage per day. The eight MTS in New York City which were temporarily closed in July 2001 when there was an interim plan to truck residential waste out of the city to an incinerator in New Jersey (Newark), are again the focus of attention. Mayor Bloomberg’s announcement that he has a new proposal for manag For more info, please visit: .
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