Subways cars sink to new depths.The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) is a government agency in the U.S. state of New Jersey that is responsible for managing the state's natural resources and addressing issues related to pollution. NJDEP now has a staff of approximately 3,400. has deployed the first of 50 subway cars from a groupof 250 decommissioned by the New York Transit Authority (NYTA NYTA New York Transit Authority NYTA New York Transhumanist Association NYTA North York Tennis Association NYTA Not Your Typical Agency NYTA National Youth Training Academy (Bangladesh) NYTA New York Tibetan Alliance NYTA New York Trading Assistants ) for use in the state's artificial reef program. Since 2001 the NYTA's artificial reef program has deposited 967 of the 1,217 "Redbird redbird: see cardinal. " cars available at reefs in Delaware, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia. Each Redbird car is approximately 51 feet in length, measuring roughly 9 feet in width and height. Prior to the cars' deployment, the NYTA strips them of all tanks, plastic, degradable de·grad·a·ble adj. That can be chemically degraded: degradable plastic wastes. de·grad materials, floatables and greases to avoid possible contamination of the marine ecosystem. NYTA also removes the wheel assemblies and undercarriages of the cars to be sold as scrap metal. |
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