Cooper Tank
Founded in 1946 by Sam Cooper and his brother, Cooper Tank & Welding Corp. is a family run business led by owner and CEO Adrienne Cooper.^[1]  The company's first product line included boiler expansion tanks & liquid fuel storage tanks.  Still operating out of the same Brooklyn building, on Moore St. between White St. and Bushwick Ave., where it started in business over a half century ago, Cooper Tank now primarily manufactures solid waste handling containers.  The current range of products includes front & rear loading containers, roll-off containers, recycling containers, compaction containers, and compaction equipment.  Today, Cooper Tank employs more than 160 people throughout their operations and make approximately 90 containers per week.  During container manufacturing the welding, cutting, and spray painting of metal releases particulates, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), xylene, and other hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).  Cooper Tank's manufacturing emissions are capped by the NYSDEC at 22.5 tons per year for VOCs and HAPs, and 9 tons per year for xylene.^[2] 

In 1986 Cooper Tank established the construction & demolition waste transfer station detailed herein. Cooper Tank & Welding Corp. also operates two steel trading divisions, based in Virginia and New Jersey, which sell structural and plate steel.

Facility Contact: Ray Kvedaras
Phone: 718-384-7727
Website: www.coopertank.com
NYSDEC Registration #: 24W21

Equity Works
According to Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, Equity Works operated a manufactured gas plant at 222, 252 and 254 Maspeth Ave from at least 1907 until sometime prior to 1933.

Cooper Tank
Cooper Tank handles construction and demolition debris, approximately 80% of which is recovered and recycled.^[3]  The recycled materials include ferrous and nonferrous metals, plastics, aggregates, paper, cardboard, and clean wood which is ground up and used for landscaping and composting (the facility is one of only a few in the New York area that is approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture as a disposal site for wood infested with Asian long horned beetles).  Some of the recyclables are bought by specialty companies that further clean and upgrade the material, while the bulk of the material is used as alternative daily cover at landfills where the remaining 20% of the transfer station throughput is buried.  Cooper Tank is actively seeking approval to expand their operations onto neighboring properties in order to increase efficiency and allow truck traffic to queue on site. 

Equity Works
Cooper Tank currently operates on top of the Equity Works State Superfund Site.  Operating a manufactured gas plant on site from 1907-1933, Equity Works polluted Newtown Creek and the soils and groundwater in and around the site with benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and cyanide.  According to the Department of Environmental Conservation's site records, "wastes have been identified in the subsurface at this site, which could result in direct contact exposure if the wastes were brought to the surface" and "potential impacts from soil vapors need to be evaluated".^[4]  However, according to Martin Brand, DEC Remedial Projects Manager, the threat of exposure has been reduced because the working surface at the site has been improved with crushed stone.  Inquiring as to the dangers of operating a waste transfer station on top of a State Superfund Site Brand responded, "the site's history and its current use make it very unlikely that any MGP-related material is present at the surface, and thus makes it quite unlikely that it is being released as dust at the present time.  The most significant problem at MGP sites is typically the release of coal tar from subsurface structures such as gas holders, tar separators, storage tanks, and associated piping.  Surface soil contamination (most often PAH compounds and lead) are sometimes encountered, but are often at levels not much greater than in surrounding properties."^[5] 

Transfer or Disposal Destination, 2006^[6]
In 2006 Cooper Tank handled 403,121 tons of material; this sum represents 3.3% of all waste exported through transfer stations in New York City.

Material	Amount (tons)	Facility Name	Location
310 processed construction and demolition debris	8,985	Hyland Facility Association	Angelica, NY
310 processed construction and demolition debris	18,120	Ontario County Landfill	Stanley, NY
construction and demolition debris	18,305	Hakes C&D Landfill	Painted Post, NY
construction and demolition debris	32,465	Phoenix Resource Landfill	Wellsboro, PA
construction and demolition debris	1,000	Carbon Limestone Landfill	Lowellville, OH
construction and demolition debris	1,480	Chemung Landfill	Elmire, NY
construction and demolition debris	223	Green Tree Landfill	Meadville, PA
construction and demolition debris	450	Waste Management	Brooklyn, NY
other masonry	119,380	OENJ	Bayonne, NJ
other masonry	19,720	Calverton Industries	Long Island, NY
metals	4,887	Hugo Neu Schnitzer	Brooklyn, NY
metals	2,510	TNT Scrap Metals	Long Island, NY
metals	21,710	Intercounty Transport	Brooklyn, NY
metals	2,396	Brooklyn Processing	Brooklyn, NY
woodchip	3,080	Burlington Resource	Burlington, NY
woodchip	5,022	County Conservation	County, NJ
woodchip	4,115	Reliable Recycling	Jersey City, NJ
woodchip	4,750	Petruzzo Products	Corinth, NY
woodchip	390	Rikers Island Organic Recycling[7]	Rikers Island, NY
woodchip	500	Organic Recycling	Orangeburg, NY
plastic	270	State Street Recycling	Amboy, NJ
plastic	120	Reliable Recycling	Jersey city, NJ
screened fines	122,230	110 Sand Company	Farmingdale, NY
screened fines	3,213	Moretown Landfill	Waterbury, VT
screened fines	3,505	Waste Management	Brooklyn, NY
paper	4,208	Reliable Recycling	Jersey City, NJ
paper	Empire State	Queens, NY
aluminum	686	Federal Metal and Alloys	South Plainfield, NJ