Brooklyn lawmakers are speaking out over a plan to install a trash plant on the waterfront in Gravesend.

The southwest Brooklyn marine transfer station will be built at 400 Bay 41st St. The site currently houses a city incinerator that stopped operating in the 1990s.

State Assemblyman William Colton (D-District 47) and New York City Councilman Mark Treyger (D-District 47) say the incinerator will have to be torn down to make room for the new facility, which has been in the planning stages since it was first announced about a decade ago.

Colton and Treyger agree that the site is too dangerous for construction.

"We believe the project is a failed project, a failed plan of the past," says Colton. "It's going to destroy the environment and the quality of life of this neighborhood."

"This community is a victim of environmental justice because it's sustained over three decades of illegal garbage incineration," says Treyger.

A spokesperson from the Department of Sanitation says the transfer station will become a critical part of the city's solid waste management plan, and that it will reduce truck traffic and air emissions.