[CPEO-BIF] Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn, NY) Potentially Responsible Parties

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Navy and city may have to pay for Gowanus cleaning

Gary Buiso
Courier-Life Publications
November 12, 2009

The United States Navy and the City of New York could be the latest 
entities footing the bill for the clean-up of the fetid Gowanus Canal, 
this paper has learned.

The Environmental Protection Agency sent out notices to the two last 
week, informing them that they could be potentially responsible for the 
paying for the polluted waterway’s cleansing, should it be designated a 
Superfund site.

EPA spokesperson Elizabeth Totman said the Navy’s connection to the 
canal comes by way of facilities it formerly owned and/or operated 
adjacent to or near the Gowanus Canal and for facilities where the Navy 
directed and oversaw government contractors which owned and/or operated 
facilities adjacent to the canal. The U.S. Department of the Navy and 
contractors’ facilities include, but are not limited to, Navy piers at 
33rd and 37th Streets; Naval Supply Depot at 850 3rd Avenue; Bethlehem 
Shipbuilding Corp., Ltd. yards at 19th and 27th Street; Sullivan Dry 
Dock at the 23rd Street Yard; Todd Shipyards at Pier A, Tebo Plant at 
23rd Street, and at the Erie Basin, Totman noted.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2009/11/10/brooklyn/courier_frontpage_gownavy.txt

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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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