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COURIER L 12 IFE, FEBRUARY 7-13, 2020
GOWANUS GETS
A GREEN LIGHT
Canal cleanup to start in September
The Environmental Protection Agency on Jan. 28 ordered the Gowanus cleanup to start in
September. Photo by Stefano Giovannini
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
The Environmental Protection
Agency is giving the city and other polluters
six months to offi cial kick off the
long-awaited cleanup of the Gowanus
Canal.
The federal agency issued the order
on Tuesday to begin the fi rst of three
phases of work — which offi cials peg at
lasting two-and-a-half years and costing
roughly $125 million — that will comprise
the massive environmental project.
The order affects six parties that
the agency has held responsible for polluting
the fetid waterway — National
Grid, Con Edison, the Hess Corporation,
Honeywell International, the Brooklyn
Improvement Company and the City
of New York — which are required to
begin dredging and capping the upper
section of the Gowanus from its head at
Butler Street to S. Third Street.
The cleanup also calls for the the
restoration of a defunct offshoot of the
canal, called the First Street Turning
Basin, which will be dredged, decontaminated,
and revitalized as a wetlands
area.
The EPA and New York State’s departments
of Environmental Conservation
and Health will oversee the work,
which will start after they fi nish installing
the necessary bulkheads along the
banks.
Uncle Sam hopes to fund the cleanup
in part through settlements its seeking
with 30 other private and federal government
entities responsible for polluting
Brooklyn’s Nautical Purgatory, albeit,
to a lesser degree than the six main
offenders.
The order comes nearly a decade after
the EPA designated the 1.8 mile canal
a Superfund Site in March of 2010,
despite opposition from the city and development
interests at the time.
The cleanse will entail dredging the
section of the canal bed and excavating
the basin of the heavily-contaminated
sediment known as the “black mayonnaise”
— where more than a dozen toxic
materials have gathered over a century
of heavy industrial and sewage waste
discharge into the waterway.
The agency will task the parties with
sealing the cleared areas with a multilayer
cap on top and mix some of the native
sediment beneath it with cement to
prevent further contamination.
Inspectors have found the sediment
to contain high amounts of toxic chemicals
and heavy metals, such as mercury,
lead, and copper, along with traces of
dog poop and even gonorrhea!
Meanwhile, the EPA will move forward
with a plan to install two massive
retention tanks to capture future stormwater
runoff and sewage, after the feds
tossed a city proposal to build an underground
tunnel last September.
Trucks will haul the muck out of the
First Street Turning Basin, while barges
will ship out the black mayonnaise, necessitating
draw bridges around the
canal to rise more frequently, causing
road delays. The agency will manage
traffi c in partnership with the city’s Department
of Transportation, a regional
EPA rep told a local watchdog group
Tuesday.
“There will be some fairly sizable
impacts on bridge openings,” Brian
Carr told the Gowanus Canal Advisory
Group.
Workers will also periodically shut
off the ancient fl ushing tunnel that
pushes water from the channel into the
New York Harbor, Carr said.
One CAG member said the city should
use more barges instead of trucks to
clear the First Street turning basin.
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