[CPEO-BIF] Newtown Creek, New York City

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Between Queens and Brooklyn, an Oil Spill's Legacy

By MIREYA NAVARRO
New York Times
August 3, 2010

The salt marshes are long gone from Newtown Creek, and so are most of 
the birds and fish. Now, this waterway straddling Brooklyn and Queens is 
dotted by bulkheads and containment booms meant to keep oil away from 
the shoreline while underground pumps work around the clock removing 
petroleum from adjacent land.

Decades in the making and confined to a corner of industrial New York, 
the oil spills in and along Newtown Creek do not have the drama of 
disasters like the current one in the Gulf of Mexico and the 1989 Exxon 
Valdez spill in Alaska.

But long before the gulf crisis riveted the nation, more than a century 
of unchecked operations and storage by refineries that lined the 
four-mile-long creek fouled its waters and seeped through 55 acres of 
land in the vicinity.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/04/science/earth/04newtown.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=newtown%20creek&st=cse

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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
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