[CPEO-BIF] "Forensic Hydrology at the Gowanus Canal, " Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Forensic Hydrology at the Gowanus Canal

By KEITH WILLIAMS 
New York Times
August 29, 2014

Several times each week, Eymund Diegel does something unthinkable to most
New Yorkers: He dips his bare hand in the Gowanus Canal.

Mr. Diegel, an environmental planner who may well be the foremost expert on
the hydrology of the Gowanus watershed, is fully aware of the toxicity of the
brackish, green-gray waters of the canal. The Gowanus, in Brooklyn, was declared
a Superfund site in 2010, marking it as one of the three most polluted locations in
New York City, along with Newtown Creek, on the Brooklyn-Queens border, and a
former thorium plant in Ridgewood, Queens.

Yet there was Mr. Diegel on a pleasant Thursday morning, paddling along in a
canoe, collecting samples from the 1.8-mile canal for analysis by the New York City
Water Trail Association. It should be noted that each of his hands has five fingers,
a normal hue and full function.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/nyregion/forensic-hydrology-at-the-gowanus-canal.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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