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The Fresh Kills Landfill was a landfill covering 2,200 acres (890 ha) in the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States. The name comes from the landfill's location along the banks of the Fresh Kills estuary in western Staten Island.
The Fresh Kills Landfill actively received New York City's municipal waste from 1947 to 2001. The subsoil was clay, with a layer of sand and silt on top. There were tidal wetlands, forests, and freshwater wetlands.
Fresh Kills (from the Middle Dutch word kille, meaning "riverbed" or "water channel") is a stream and freshwater estuary in the western portion of the borough of Staten Island in New York City, United States. It is the site of the Fresh Kills Landfill, formerly New York City's principal landfill.
The Fresh Kills Landfill is an example of an urban landfill restoration that turned parts of the world's largest landfill into an urban green space. [21] These types of restorations are effective, however, as the U.S develops more and more land and destroys native habitats, efforts towards restoring grasslands are becoming more concentrated ...
Fresh Kills Landfill (1948-2001) was a dumping site part of NYC's waste management system located on the west shore of Staten Island. In the 18th and 19th centuries, New York residents were encouraged to throw their trash into the East River to shore up low-lying sections of Lower Manhattan. [26]
The Staten Island boat graveyard is a marine scrapyard located in the Arthur Kill in Rossville, near the Fresh Kills Landfill, on the West Shore of Staten Island, New York City. It is known by many other names including the Witte Marine Scrap Yard, the Arthur Kill Boat Yard, and the Tugboat Graveyard.
Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. [42] According to The New York Times, by September 24, 2001, more than 100,000 tons of debris had been removed from the site. [44]
Beginning in 2010, the adjacent 223-acre (0.90 km 2) North Park section of Freshkills Park (the redevelopment of the Fresh Kills Landfill) has undergone preparation to serve as an expansion of the wildlife refuge.