[CPEO-BIF] [Fwd: Re: Gowanus Canal update, Brooklyn, New York]

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From: 	CYoung2281@aol.com

More testing for the Gowanus Canal, why?

I spent a day on the Gowanus Canal ten years ago accompanied by EPA
Region 2 folks. We collected dozens of sediment samples and found what
hundreds of studies before and since have found, the river is a mess.

I appreciate as much as anyone, the need for solid analytical and site
characterization data to develop a corrective action plan however, at
some point testing ceases to be about "good data" and slips ever so
quietly into the realm of maintaining billable hours.

America is in a restoration economy and restoring hundreds of thousands
of polluted sites to productive reuse will never occur so long as
remediation remains relegated as that which occurs only when all other
billable options are exhausted.

C.W. Young
Christopher Young
President
BTR
cyoung2281@aol.com <mailto:cyoung2281@aol.com>



In a message dated 12/4/2009 1:17:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
lsiegel@cpeo.org writes:

    EPA in no rush to Superfund; more tests coming for filthy canal

    By Stephen Brown
    The Brooklyn Paper (NY)
    December 4, 2009

    Hopes for the Gowanus Canal to quickly be designated a Superfund site
    were reigned in on Thursday night as a top federal official cautioned
    that it is very rare for a proposal to be approved in less than a year.

    "It is unusual for a Superfund listing to be made in less than one
    year,
    even for sites that aren't as controversial as this one," said Walter
    Mugdan, the regional Superfund director for the Environmental
    Protection
    Agency, which started the Gowanus process in April.

    Given how much time has passed - and how much is already known about
    the
    toxic corpse of water - hopes were high that this informational meeting
    would actually serve as the forum for announcing the Superfund
    designation.

    ...

    For the entire article, see

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/49/32_49_sb_gowanus_meeting.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>
    http://www.cpeo.org



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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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