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Gold9472
02-01-2010, 09:05 AM
Search for 9/11 remains continues with a $1.4 million sifting operation

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2010/01/30/2010-01-30_search_for_911_remains_goes_on.html

By Frank Lombardi
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, January 30th 2010, 4:00 AM

In an ongoing search for remains of 9/11 victims, more material gathered from excavations near the World Trade Center site will be sifted in a $1.4 million operation starting in April.

City officials said yesterday the three-month sifting operation will be conducted at the Fresh Kills former landfill on Staten Island.

Anthropologists and other forensic experts will hand-sift 844 cubic yards of soil and other material - about the amount that fits in a dump truck - that was gathered since December 2007 from various sites around Ground Zero. A prior sifting operation resulted in identifying 27 additional victims.

To date, 1,629 victims of the World Trade Center attacks have been identified, out of 2,752 killed.