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Big Stink Over Gowanus’ Future
Print- Published in: 219 Magazine
Mike Reicher
MUDDY WATERS: The feds are eying using Superfund money to clean up the Gowanus Canal. But the Bloomberg administration, developers and some locals say the Superfund process would take too long and could prevent redevelopment along the canal’s banks.
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More than two decades after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designated a section of the Hudson River a polluted Superfund site, barges finally began scooping toxic sediment from the riverbed last spring.
Miles away, residents of Brooklyn are wondering how long they might have to wait before the government begins cleaning up the Gowanus Canal.
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http://www.mayorbloombergkingofnewyork.blogspot,com Suzannah B.Troy
