From Yankee Stadium to the Bronx Terminal Market to the water filtration plant, billions of dollars are being spent in the Bronx on construction projects. But community activists say too many people from Westchester, New Jersey and Long Island are landing the jobs and they want that to change. NY1's Bronx reporter Dean Meminger has the details.

The city is shelling out more than $1.5 billion to build a water filtration plant underneath the former Mosholu Golf Course along Jerome Avenue. And with all of that money and work comes plenty of jobs, but the big question who is getting all of those jobs?

“I was, like wow 60 or 70 percent of the people working on it were not from the Bronx,” said Bronx resident Brenda Rucker.

That’s why the Kingsbridge heights neighborhood improvement association held a job fair Friday.

The group says the Department of Environmental Protection is not doing enough to hire Bronx residents.

"We were promised the job growth and if the government is slow on their feet, as they usually are, community activists such as myself and other organizations will make sure that job gets done," said community activist Anthony Riviecco.

News of this small job fair spread all over the Bronx and 300 people showed up throughout the day.

Those looking for jobs include a new mom carrying her baby and plenty of Bronx men.

"Presently, jobs for me are hard to find," said Bronx resident Gordon Bussey.

"I grabbed my relative here and we trotted on over here in hopes of getting a bonus," said Bronx resident Michael Perry.

That bonus would be landing a job.

The DEP says the first phase of the construction only needed a little more than 100 workers. About 26 to 31 percent of those jobs went to Bronx residents. The second phase calls for 600 to 700 construction jobs and DEP says it hopes to employ as many local people as possible, but it says it can not discriminate against qualified union workers from other areas.

Community activists and local leaders say the people who live in the area are feeling all of the negative impacts of this construction project in their neighborhood. So they say they well continue to pressure DEP to make sure as many local residents as possible get jobs.

"The fact is that we should get all of those jobs for the Bronx,” said Assembly Member Jeffrey Dinowitz. “It is very hard to convince me that out of 1.4 million Bronxites there aren’t 600 people who are capable of filling those jobs.

To find out more about jobs at the water filtration plant, log onto www.NYC.gov/dep.

— Dean Meminger