[CPEO-BIF] Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn, NY) added to the National Superfund List

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

News Release
U.S. EPA Region 2
March 2, 2010


EPA Adds Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal to the National Superfund List of 
Hazardous Waste Sites; Agency will Pursue Polluters to Pay for 
Comprehensive Cleanup


(New York, NY) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today 
announced that it has officially placed the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, 
NY on its Superfund National Priorities List of the country's most 
hazardous waste sites. Since EPA proposed the listing in April 2009, 
Agency officials have met with government and elected officials, 
business representatives, representatives of civic organizations, and 
community members, and reviewed more than 1,300 comments received on its 
proposal to list the site. The Agency has determined that adding the 
site to the Superfund list is the best way to clean up the heavily 
contaminated canal.

"After conducting our own evaluations and consulting extensively with 
the many people who have expressed interest in the future of the Gowanus 
Canal and the surrounding area, we have determined that a Superfund 
designation is the best path to a cleanup of this heavily contaminated 
and long neglected urban waterway," said Judith Enck, Regional 
Administrator. "We plan to continue our work with the same spirit of 
inclusion and involvement that has already been demonstrated, and thank 
everyone for their focus on this pollution problem."


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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d10ed0d99d826b068525735900400c2a/2c7ef12ad44da9c4852576da00536f0f!OpenDocument

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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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