Local pols deliver anti-Waste Transfer Station petitions to de Blasio
With petitions signed and signatures in hand, three local community leaders took to City Hall on Wednesday, August 26, in hopes of getting the mayor’s attention in regards to the much-protested Southwest Brooklyn waste transfer station.
After a letter written to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) outlining several complaints from community members and multiple violations of the Clean Water Act was submitted by Anti-waste Task Force co-chairs Nancy Tong and Charles Ragusa last month, Tong, Assemblymember William Colton and Councilmember Mark Treyger delivered the petitions—signed by thousands of community members—to City Hall.
“We wanted to formally present to City Hall the results of hundreds of letters and thousands of signatures against the garbage station that we’ve collected in recent months,” said Colton, who has spearheaded the fight against the waste transfer station for quite some time and started a Neighborhood Watch initiative that urges community members to look for and report any violations happening at the construction site. “We wanted to hand them down and present them to the City Hall desk.”