Finally, a cure for Brookfield!
After a quarter century, and a generation of Staten Islanders growing up in the shadows of an environmental hazard, the funding to clean and restore the Brookfield Landfill has finally been allocated in the city’s 2010 fiscal budget. Councilman Ignizio led the fight for a total of $241 million dollars to completely and correctly remediate this site that was once the illegal receptacle of industrial waste.
Over the last few years a coalition of community members and elected officials, including Senator Lanza, Assemblymen Tobacco and Cusick, Borough President Molinaro, Congressmen McMahon, Community Board 3, and the landfill’s Citizens Advisory Committee and John Filicetti, pushed hard to ensure that city agencies would live up to their mandated mission of cleaning up the final of five toxic landfills around the city.
Throughout the spring the Borough’s three City Councilmen, Ignizio, Oddo and Mitchell, were able to persuade Mayor Bloomberg to incorporate the full $241 million dollars necessary in this year’s budget. On June 19, the budget was passed and signed and the existing contract with a private environmental remediation company can begin.
While in the Assembly, Councilman Ignizio was able to pass a law on August 16, 2006, which will force the contractor to use the Korean War Veterans Parkway to access the site. This will keep the more than one hundred dump-trucks a day, which will be carrying the affected soil, off our local neighborhood roads.
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