Marine transfer station opens in Brooklyn

The Hamilton Avenue marine transfer station has opened in Brooklyn, New York, with the goal of relieving residents in North Brooklyn from a large amount of transfer stations, a report by the Gowanus Patch says. The transfer station is located near the mouth of the Gowanus Canal.

The facility will process 1,600 tons of trash per day from Brooklyn neighborhoods, the report says. According to the New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY), the facility houses ventilation and odor controls, a negative air pressure system, sealed leak-proof containers and roll-up doors designed to mitigate odors.

According to the report, North Brookylnites were unhappy with the amount of trash stations in the area. The waste would sit in these stations until trucks would collect it and take it to landfills outside of the city. Half of the 1,600 tons per day were sent to facilities in Williamsburg, Bushwick and Greenpoint.

Trucks will collect the waste from curbsides throughout Brooklyn and bring it to the $173 million facility. At the transfer station, the waste will be loaded into shipping containers that will be carried by crane to a barge and sent to Elizabeth, New Jersey. There, the trash will be sent to Virginia or upstate New York via train cars.

The report says the Hamilton Avenue transfer station is the third in a network of new centers. Two other locations include Staten Island and College Point in Queens and two additional stations are set to upen in Bensohurst in Brooklyn and Manhattan.