[CPEO-BIF] Listing Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Listing Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal: A No-Brainer
Lenny Siegel
May 2009

The Gowanus Canal stretches about a mile and a half through western 
Brooklyn, terminating at the Gowanus Creek arm of the New York Harbor. 
Despite opposition from New York City officials and developers, U.S. 
EPA's proposal to list the Canal on the "Superfund" National Priorities 
List is a no-brainer because only the Canal, not the adjacent land, is 
proposed for listing, and because development is currently proposed for 
only a very small stretch of the Canal waterfront.

For Lenny Siegel's 3-page, 1.6 MB PDF report, go to 
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/Gowanus.pdf.


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org




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