DEP Environmental Protection Invoices, 1999-2001

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City the project, that it "has been selected by the New York FEIS as the most appropriate one for procedure, and FEIS and completion of the ULURP Council and the Mayor after their review" of the that judgment." that the "Attorney General does not disagrce with comer of Van Cordandt Park, occupied by a golf The selected site is located in the southeast The golf course will be closed during construction, driving range and adjacent to the golf course itself construction and parking area will be demolished during and the existing golf clubhouse, roads and constructed range site will be excavated and the WTP rebuilt, as will the driving range. The driving grade will existing grade, although in places the finished below finished grade and substantially below construction, than existing grade. Upon completion of be between approximately 5 and 35 feet higher golf driving end restored to allow its resumed use as a the roof of the plant is to be covered with soil sloping nature of the site, the facades of the building range. In order to accommodate the existing intakes for the bermed and landscaped embankments. Air housing the WTP will be constructed as around the range through louvers concealed in the berms WTP will be located adjacent to the driving ball be integrated into the supports for the golf perimeter of the building, and exhaust stacks will WTP includes a raw and the driving range structures. The netting on the sides of the driving range the station, and treated water reservoir, all housed in water pumping station, finished water pumping existing the facility with the New Croton Aqueduct and the building. Underground tunnels connecting also will be constructed. water distribution system for the City course. Van approximately 28 acres of the 74 acre golf The construction site will cover vicinity, together with other areas of open space in the Cortlandt Park itself covers 1,146 acres and, to the FEIS, the densely populated part of the City. According make the area strikingly bucolic for a space ratio from construction will decrease the total open temporary loss of active open space during

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