Green Dream For Salvage Yard
By Eliot Caroom | November 1st, 2007 | | 
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- Published in: The Hunts Point Express
MEADOW LANDS: An aerial view of the Sims Metal recycling facility in Hunts Point, before construction began on its green wall and wet meadow.
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Hunts Point Riverside Park is a pristine patch of green surrounded by rusting metal: train tracks line one side of the park, and mountains of scrap metal another. But the salvage yard where the Sims Metal recycling company collects discarded metal will soon include its own patch of green: a wall covered in moss and ferns, and a wet meadow with native plants.
The plants are part of a $2-3 million water treatment system aimed at keeping pollutants out of the Bronx River by imitating natural wetlands.
