Nassau clears out mountain of Sandy debris

Originally published: December 23, 2012 7:54 PM
Updated: December 23, 2012 9:00 PM
By LAURA FIGUEROA laura.figueroa@newsday.com

Photo credit: Jim Staubitser | Crews remove families' belongings ruined during superstorm Sandy and bring them to Nickerson Park in Lido Beach, which has become the temporary dumping ground. (Nov. 8, 2012)

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Nassau County contractors have finished clearing the mountain of superstorm Sandy debris that had towered over Nickerson Beach Park in Lido Beach for more than a month.

The work took 17 days of 24-hour operations.

The last scraps of more than 245,000 cubic yards of waste were hauled from the park on Friday and shipped by barge to an upstate landfill, said Michael Martino, spokesman for...

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