On the night of September
12, 2001
the Fresh Kills
Landfill on Staten Island
was designated a crime
scene and trucks began
arriving from Ground Zero
with steel and
crushed
debris that was
once
the World Trade Center.
Over the next ten months,
an operation to recover
human remains, personal
effects and the objects
of everyday life from 1.8
million tons of material was
undertaken by the New
York Police Department,
an FBI evidence recovery
team, twenty-five state
and federal agencies, and
fourteen private contractors.
The story of this operation
unfolds in many rare images
and compelling objects that
are now preserved for history.
Thousands of detectives,
agents, and forensic evidence
specialists worked around
the clock to recover rem-
nants of the lives lost
at the World Trade Center.
Over 1.7 million hours were
spent working at the landfill.
The exhibition photographs,
taken over several months,
document the immense
task.
But there was no investigation or examination of any evidence.........
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/exhibits/longterm/documents/recovery.pdf