[CPEO-BIF] New York City's alternative for Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

City Proposes New Plan for Gowanus Canal Cleanup

By MIREYA NAVARRO
New York Times
July 2, 2009


Fighting to prevent the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn from being labeled a 
Superfund site, city officials are proposing an alternative cleanup plan 
that they say would still be overseen by the Environmental Protection 
Agency but would take only about half the time a Superfund project would 
require.

A Superfund designation, reserved for the country's most hazardous 
sites, allows the government to pursue parties responsible for the 
pollution and require them to pay for the removal of hazards.

In April the E.P.A. proposed adding the Gowanus Canal to its Superfund 
National Priorities List at the urging of the New York State Department 
of Environmental Conservation. In a preliminary assessment the agency 
found that the site was contaminated by a variety of pollutants as a 
result of the waterway's industrial past, including pesticides, metals 
and cancer-causing chemicals called PCBs.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/nyregion/02gowanus.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Gowanus&st=cse

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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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