[CPEO-BIF] It’s Time to List the Gowanus Uplands Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

It’s Time to List the Gowanus Uplands Brooklyn, New York 

The area around Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal is experiencing an impressive boom in residential construction. However, as thousands of new housing units undergo construction near the Canal, underground plumes of volatile chlorinated compounds such as trichloroethylene (TCE) threaten both existing and new homes with the intrusion of toxic vapors. While the state of New York, developers, responsible parties such as National Grid, and U.S. EPA have spent a great deal of time and money investigating and addressing the contamination in both the Canal and its uplands, the current and future residents and other building occupants cannot be adequately protected until there is a comprehensive approach to the cleanup of the area.

To see Lenny Siegel’s 17-page, 10 MB report, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/GowanusUplands.pdf

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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