tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730644622305780485.post7708289569469137556..comments2024-02-24T06:04:07.481-08:00Comments on Be the BQE: Welcome to Ash-LandBe the BQEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11621320435990191224noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8730644622305780485.post-45083574540879832522013-05-12T08:13:11.305-07:002013-05-12T08:13:11.305-07:00The field of ashes wasn't trash burning--it wa...The field of ashes wasn't trash burning--it was the DUMP for coal ashes. At a time when many heated there homes (and many apartment buildings) used coal--ash disposal was an issue. <br /><br />coal embers can burn and smolder for a long time. Special garbage trucks picked up the ashes, (which had to be disposed of in heavy STEEL cans, not lightweight aluminum ones) <br /><br />Flushing "Meadow" was a wet lands. (it still floods--and was flooded during SANDY back in the fall--One of very few north shore places that did flood)<br />The plan was, dump ashes here, and eventually, they would sink and stop smoldering. some of the smoke was from burning coal embers, some of it was steam (as the embers were extinguished)<br /><br />The city had incinerators for garbage (i remember the one on Zerega Avenue--in soundview (BX).) <br /><br />I laugh at the signs on the highway (Grand Central & Van Wyck--lauding "forever natural". There is very little natural about Flushing Meadow. (the ash field was closed and the ground covered over for the 1936 world fair.<br /><br />Part of Grand Central still flood--from underground streams that still exist and feed into the meadow lands.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05396678842259578953noreply@blogger.com