Hybrid Oak Woods Park, Tottenville Staten Island
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The South Shore of Staten Island is well-known for having acres upon acres of wetlands. With all of the housing developments that had taken place in the twentieth century, these wetland areas began to disappear. In 1994, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation created a Natural Resources Damages Program known as the Jamaica Bay Damages Account. This program was created in an attempt to restore, replace, or acquire wetland areas that had been affected "as a result of a release of hazardous substances from five landfills within New York City",
Brookfield Landfill being the one in Staten Island. In the five boroughs, there were eighty-two project proposals proposed for the program.
Of the eighty-two projects proposed, eight had…
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