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LFG-to-High Btu Pipeline Quality Gas

Fresh Kills Landfill

Staten Island, New York

One of the most infamous landfills in the world is the Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island, New York.  Built to serve the disposal needs of New York City, for many years it held the title of the world’s largest landfill.  Though closed in 2001, it reopened briefly to accept the debris from the collapsed World Trade Center and surrounding vicinity. 

Montauk’s GSF subsidiary designed, built and constructed an LFG-to-high Btu gas processing plant at Fresh Kills in the late 1970’s.  When it came on line it was the largest facility of its kind and held that title until 2007 when Montauk dedicated the most recent expansion to our LFG-to-high Btu project at the Rumpke Landfill in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

The gas processing plant at Fresh Kills uses Selexol as the primary technology for gas separation.  The plant has an inlet capacity of just over 14 mmscfd.  The raw landfill gas is drawn from a wellfield collection system comprised of 550 individual LFG production wells spread out over 2,700 acres of landfill area.  Approximately half of the collection system including the production wells, header piping and flares were actually designed and constructed by GSF, some with the technical assistance of our Waste Energy Technology subsidiary. 

GSF operated the wellfield and gas processing plants at Fresh Kills for 27 years.  In 2006, Montauk’s operations contract with the City of New York expired.  A portion of our staff transferred to other Montauk owned facilities in the area.