Post-storm Commercial, Residential Collection Resumes in New Jersey
Following discussions with local officials, Waste Management has determined it is safe to resume collection in most areas of New Jersey, as well as Delaware and Eastern Pennsylvania. With the...
View ArticleOfficial: Long Beach 'extremely vulnerable' to nor'easter
Videos Officials urge caution ahead of approaching nor'easter LIPA customers march in Hewlett Long Beach residents speak of suffering...
View ArticleTaxpayer Storm Shield Protects Casinos While Poor Take on Water
As superstorm Sandy flooded Atlantic City, New Jersey, one area was shielded from damage by dunes constructed at taxpayer expense: casinos and other beachfront businesses and homes. Nearby, another...
View ArticlePost-storm Commercial, Residential Collection Resumes in New Jersey...
EWING, N.J., Nov 02, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- --Waste Management service recovery under way, including rapid mobilization of people, assets following impact of Hurricane Sandy. Following discussions...
View ArticleNew Jersey Beach Towns Crushed, but Vow to Recover
Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook Superstorm Sandy fled the East Coast as quickly as she arrived but her presence will linger for years to come. For the 5,900 year-round residents in Belmar, N.J, a...
View ArticleTenacious sanitation worker oversees cleanup in his own Sandy-ravaged...
A devoted Sanitation official is helping to oversee cleanup operations in his own devastated backyard. “This is my neighborhood. It’s decimated — it’s our Katrina,” said John McGovern, a chief of...
View ArticleMarina del Rey channel dredging provides multiple benefits (The United...
MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- "In dredging, you don't usually see the results, it's just deeper water," Andrew Hunt, the Dutra Dredging Company project manager for the Marina del Rey entrance channel...
View ArticleAir Force ships Calif. radioactive waste to Idaho landfill - California...
After California regulators refused to allow the U.S. Air Force to label residue from radioactive aircraft instruments as "naturally occurring" - declaring it unsuitable for a Bakersfield-area dump -...
View ArticleShore residents return home to damage, destruction
Bill Goldberg's first reaction upon entering his flood-damaged home in this popular Jersey Shore resort community was unprintable. His second was that life as he knew it had just been turned upside...
View ArticleNew Franklin County landfill a necessary, costly headache
Kyle Green | The Roanoke Times Larry Moore (right), assistant county administrator for Franklin County, talks with Barry Sink, director of solid waste for Franklin County, in front of the new phase 1...
View ArticleCounty committed to recycling storm debris
Burlington County may have been spared from the devastation seen at the Jersey shore and parts of North Jersey, but it still created a big mess here, mostly downed trees and broken branches and brush....
View ArticleBattered New Jersey town thinks ahead to summer on the boardwalk
BELMAR, New Jersey (Reuters) - On this stretch of the Jersey shore known as the state's "Irish Riviera," workers with heavy equipment started at daybreak on Friday, pushing tons of sand, shattered...
View ArticlePersonal items battered by Sandy litter temp landfill in JacobRiis Park
Refuse from the neighborhoods in Rockaway as a result of Hurricane Sandy are being collected at Jacob Riis beach parking lot. Baby toys, photo albums, broken china—these are just some precious items...
View ArticleEast still battling rubble from Sandy
By David B. Caruso Associated Press Comments New York â Just a few months ago, the parking lot at Jacob Riis Park on New York City's Rockaway seashore was filled with happy beachgoers. Now it is...
View ArticleA windfall for Colonie after devastation from Hurricane Sandy
COLONIE -- The scale of the operation can only be measured in thousands of tons and cubic yards and it's only a fraction of the construction debris coming out of the New York City area in the wake of...
View ArticleColonie landfill to take Sandy debris
COLONIE — The town will accept construction debris from homes destroyed in Hurricane Sandy. The Town Board voted 7-0 Thursday to allow Capital District Landfills Inc., operator of the landfill, to...
View ArticleCleanup Poses Towering Task
By JENNIFER MALONEY and JACKIE BISCHOF Municipalities across Greater New York are straining under the task of carting away a mountain of debris left by Sandy, an effort that could last months and that...
View ArticleVolume of Hurricane Sandy debris at Jersey Shore overwhelms officials,...
Gallery: Volume of Hurricane Sandy debris at Jersey Shore overwhelms officials, cleanup crews James Osborne, Inquirer Staff Writer Posted: Monday, November 19, 2012, 5:56 AM BRICK TOWNSHIP, N.J. -...
View ArticleSandy cleanup turns popular New York beach parking lot into dump
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Last summer it was packed with beachgoers, a parking lot where New Yorkers stashed their cars, applied sunscreen and dragged lawn chairs, coolers and umbrellas across the blacktop...
View Article>Rubble cleanup a massive task in NY, NJ
NEW YORK (AP) — Just a few months ago, the parking lot at Jacob Riis Park on New York City's Rockaway seashore was filled with happy beachgoers. Now, it is home to a mountain of misery from Superstorm...
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