Hempstead Village schedules waste transfer station hearing

Waste transfer station hearing scheduled

The Hempstead Village Planning Board plans to hold a special meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to hear an application for a construction materials and green waste transfer station proposed at 43 Sewell St. in Hempstead.

Planning board members moved the meeting to Kennedy Memorial Park after an overflowing crowd led a September planning board meeting to be postponed.

Champ Construction and Hempstead-based Fildon LLC are asking the village to approve a 15,020-square-foot transfer station on a decontaminated brownfield site at Sewell and Mirschel streets.

The industrial-zoned parcel is near a scrap metal recycling center and auto repair shop, but residents have protested the project because the plant would be built across the street from homes near the Hempstead Golf and Country Club.

Attorneys for the applicants said that additional measures have been made to add ventilation, and waste materials will remain at the site no more than 24 hours before pickup.