Smells Good To Me – New Park Proposed To Be Next Door To The Yonkers Sewer Plant – By Brian Harrod

County Legislator Jose Alvarado wants to transform a vacant by the Yonkers wastewater treatment plant into a new Westchester County park

Yonkers Legislator Jose Alvarado Westchester County to spend $10 million on a small property that has views of the New Jersey Palisades, but is next to a sewage treatment plant.

Community groups in the Ludlow Park section of southwest Yonkers have pushed for this for nearly a decade, but have not been able to get their plan off the ground – mostly because of because of sewage smells that even has Bronx residents complaining to their community boards.

Supposedly, the county is going to spend $22 million for odor control.