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Updates on the Hunts Point waste transfer station construction
1:26:55
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Council Member Salamanca inquires about the status of the new waste transfer station being built in Hunts Point. Commissioner Aggarwala discusses the project's importance, innovative construction techniques, and potential benefits for the community.
- The new facility includes large digester tanks built using a continuous pour approach
- The project aims to address odor complaints and improve environmental justice in the area
- There is some confusion about the relationship between the new and existing facilities
- The new digesters are expected to have a significant impact on reducing odor issues
Rafael Salamanca
1:26:55
Alright, thank you.
1:26:56
My last topic that I just want to hit on is the waste transfer station in Hunts Point.
1:27:01
I know that there's a new facility that's being built in Hunts Point.
1:27:08
We have a status as to where are we at with the construction of that site?
Rohit Aggarwala
1:27:16
I'll I'll ask Tassos to look up the the actual completion date.
1:27:19
I don't I don't have it off the top of my head.
1:27:22
I will say that is a tremendously important project for us.
1:27:27
As you see, we've already changed the skyline of the of the Bronx.
1:27:31
With that, I'm really proud of the fact that it's another example of innovation.
1:27:36
You probably know, we've I hope we've shown you the video that we used a continuous pour approach to build those, I think, roughly 15 story digester tanks and and that cut the construction time down from several months to twenty days per tank.
1:27:52
I mean, is kind of mind boggling and and really cool.
1:27:56
And this is a great example of what I was saying to council member of Viles about environmental justice.
1:28:03
One of the challenges that you know probably better than I with that treatment plant is we do generate a number of odor complaints.
1:28:11
The the a large portion of those odor complaints are attributed to the fact that the tanks where we hold the sludge that we pull out of the water before we dump the cleaned water into the harbor, those at Hunt's Point are particularly old, They are made of concrete.
1:28:29
They have cracked.
1:28:30
Cracks mean you have leaks.
1:28:31
That means the odor is getting out.
1:28:33
These new tanks are not only a direct investment in our operations, they will also allow us to receive organics at that treatment plant, which I think is gonna be a big deal because it'll allow the Department of Sanitation to do less trucking of the organics that it collects in the Bronx.
1:28:49
So that's fewer truck miles as well as the you know, we we do hope to do gas to grid at Hunts Point as well.
1:28:57
But the simple fact of having those new tanks when they come into service should have a massive impact on the number of odor issues related to that plant.
Rafael Salamanca
1:29:07
Once the the the the new facility is completed and it's operational, will the other older facility go offline or you're gonna continue to utilize that facility?
Rohit Aggarwala
1:29:20
Well, it it is one facility.
1:29:21
So we're not replacing
Rafael Salamanca
1:29:22
It's two different locations.
1:29:25
No, it's have because where you're building the digesters are right in front of Baretto Point Park compared to your the facility that you have now, it's on Raiwa.
1:29:34
It's they're like there's two separate facilities.
Rohit Aggarwala
1:29:39
They are connected and our our existing digester tanks will go out of service, but the rest of that facility is still there.
1:29:47
The tanks are only one part of the overall treatment process.
Rafael Salamanca
1:29:51
I'm confused commissioner because I was just there recently in the park doing a tour with the parks department.
1:29:56
And you have the digesters that are there directly across the street from the park.
1:30:01
You know we were talking about shadows because there's gonna be an issue with shadows there, that's fine, but that was approved years ago.
1:30:06
And then you cross the street, well I mean you cross the street and then that's where the facility, the old facility's at.
1:30:13
It's on Raiwa which kinda takes the whole block.
Rohit Aggarwala
1:30:17
Well, again, I I we can we would I'm happy to to meet with you or or visit the site together, but the but the bulk of the existing facility will will remain.
1:30:28
Oh, actually.
1:30:28
Alright.
1:30:28
Thanks.
1:30:29
Yes.
1:30:29
Here's deputy commissioner DeLillo to come talk about that.