[CPEO-BIF] Whole Foods Gowanus site, Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note: The proposed Superfund listing of Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal 
applies only to the canal itself and not adjacent properties. - LS]

Whole Foods Gowanus site to be clean by April

By Gary Buiso
Brooklyn Heights Courier (NY)
February 23, 2010

Whole Foods remains intent on developing its property along the Gowanus 
Canal, a toxic site that should be cleaned by April, an environmental 
consultant for the company said this week.

"Everything I know is that Whole Foods is committed to putting a Whole 
Foods on the site," said John Bogdanski, a senior project manager with 
the consulting firm BL Companies.

Bogdanski told Community Board 6's Environmental Protection Committee 
this week that Whole Foods is in the final phase of a cleanup that began 
in 2005 at the site, Third Avenue and Third Street.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2010/02/23/brooklyn_heights_courier/news/courier-yn_brooklyn_heights-6wholeupdate.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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