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

["Trilling, Barry" <BTrilling@wiggin.com>]

This matter, the trigger to our extended discussion, has reached a new and important stage.  The proof of the pudding will be in the tasting.

Barry J. Trilling
 W I G G I N  A N D  D A N A

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From: brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org [mailto:brownfields-bounces@lists.cpeo.org] On Behalf Of Lenny Siegel
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:11 AM
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Gowanus Canal (Brooklyn, NY) added to the National Superfund List

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."


...

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>
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