Pol takes action after asbestos stalls controversial Gravesend waste transfer station construction
One local politician has already penned a letter to the governor in response to the discovery of asbestos at the controversial South Brooklyn Marine Transfer Station that has since put the long-protested project on hold.
As this paper previously reported, work on the controversial transfer station – a project that has been protested time and time again both before and after its groundbreaking – has been put on pause after workers at the site removing an underground concrete duct bank unearthed what has since been confirmed to be non-friable asbestos containing material (ACM) earlier this month.
“We sent out a letter to the governor in which we’re basically demanding that, until [the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) and the Department of Design and Construction (DDC)] fulfill all the requirements, including supplying the certification that the facility was properly closed and that all of the contaminants were safely discarded, that there should be no work done,” said Assemblymember Bill Colton, who penned the letter. “That all construction be halted until they find that the incinerator was safely closed.”