[CPEO-BIF] "Sponge Park" for Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Nydia: The Gowanus is 'Sponge' worthy!

By Mike McLaughlin
The Brooklyn Paper (NY)
June 29, 2009

The proposed Sponge Park along the banks of the fetid Gowanus Canal is 
finally living up to its name in one way: it's soaking up federal money.

A pilot version of the park, whose name actually refers to how it will 
employ vegetation that would retain water and prevent sewer overflows on 
rainy days, could sprout thanks to a cool $300,000 earmark sponsored by 
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Carroll Gardens).

"It would be a great amenity for the city," said Susannah Drake, an 
architect. The Sponge Park is the brainchild of her design firm, 
dlandstudio, and the Gowanus Canal Conservancy. "The water is dirty and 
we have to start cleaning it up incrementally. We could use the Sponge 
Park to get the ball rolling."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/26/32_26_mm_sponge_park.html

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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>
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