Fresh Kills Landfill was one of the biggest landfills in the world at the time of its operation. It was first established in 1948, on the western shore of Staten Island. Before Fresh kills Landfill came to be, most of the 2,200 acre land was a salt or intertidal marshland. A significant portion of the Fresh Kills landfill was used as farmland by the locals. Although population was growing in most locations at a steady rate after the end of the Second World War, Staten Island communities remained unaffected by the growth. This changed in 1964, when the opening of the Verrazano Bridge brought an influx of new residents and Industry to Staten Island. Since then Staten Island has become one of the fastest growing counties in New York State. The Fresh Kills Landfill was established by Robert Moses, who at the time served as the commissioner of the City Parks Department. He secured permission to create the landfill in Fresh kills, when he negotiated a deal with then-borough president Cornelius A. Hall. The agreement allowed Robert Moses to build the landfill in Staten Island; In exchange, Robert Moses would oversee the construction of the West Shore Expressway. The original agreement between President Cornelius A. Hall and Robert Moses spoke of a two year operation of the Fresh kills Landfill. However, because of industrial growth and the convenience of dumping in the Fresh Kills Landfill, It became the number one destination for NYC trash until efforts to close it down finally came through in 2001. In 1986 and 1987, the landfill was accepting as much as 29,000 tons of garbage a day, and was rumored to be so large that it could be seen from space. The residents surrounding the Fresh Kills landfill had been complaining as early as 1949, about various violations of health standards and of the pervasive stench coming from the dump. In 1996 the public pressure finally took effect, when Mayor Giuliani and Governor Pataki declared December 31, 2001, as the closing day of the Landfill. In actuality, the Fresh Kills Landfill closed on March 22, 2001 when the final shipment of household waste was deposited. The Fresh Kills Landfill was reopened soon after September 11, and was the place where the remains of the towers, and the debris from the World trade center were deposited. Workers sifted through 1.6 million tons of debris daily, and identified about 300 victims through the DNA evidence found there. In 2001, The Department of City Planning and the New York Department of State's Division of Coastal Resources came together on behalf of the City of New York to create a master plan for the former Landfill at Fresh Kills. Together they drafted a comprehensive plan to transform the Fresh Kills Landfill, into the Fresh Kills Park; this plan became known as the Draft Master Plan. The Department of Parks and Recreation became responsible for implementing the Draft master Plan in 2006. The Fresh Kills Park has potential to become the model for land reclamation projects around the world. The plan for the park takes into consideration three broad concepts: programming, wildlife and circulation. Programming refers to efforts to create facilities and public places for social recreation. Circulation is a vital aspect of the Draft Master Plan, because it aims to create an extensive network of paths within the Fresh Kills Park. In total the fresh kills park will consist of five main sections, each area having a distinctive character and layout. Today New York City Garbage is taken out of state to places such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Queens is different in that since 2000, the borough sends garbage to New Jersey transfer stations. The process of disposing NYC's trash to distant places cost the city up to $300 million a year.