and secondary boating
contact recreation,” according
to the state’s website.
But officials want to remove
that line, which qualifies
the waterway for state
programs aimed at improving
its water quality.
The move comes as a local
watchdog group seeks to reclassify
the waterway in an effort
to net additional resources
for the canal, and one member
said the state is essentially
acting in direct opposition to
the expressed interests of constituents.
“The State’s proposed
changes for language clarifi -
cation… would be detrimental
to the CAG’s request,” said
Amy Motzny, a member of the
Gowanus Canal Community
Advisory Group, which oversees
the ongoing federal Superfund
cleanup of the waterway.
Gowanusaurs have been
campaigning to divert more
resources to making their
neighborhood’s canal cleaner
for marine life and humans
since before Uncle Sam designated
the waterway a Federal
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Superfund site in 2010.
And, gross though it may
seem, daredevil Brooklynites
are already playing in the canal,
which is home to a local
canoeing club and serves as
the on-again, off-again swimming
hole for environmental
activist Christopher Swain,
who swam the canal in an effort
to raise awareness for the
need to clean the fetid waterway.
In 2018, offi cials at the
EPA told the state agency’s
head of its division of water,
Mark Klotz, that they needed
to introduce stricter bacteria
standards in order to meet
that goal.
The Department instead
decided to lower its targets
by fi ling their proposal to
eliminate the language saying
the waters shall be suitable
for boating and swimming.
The Department fi led for
that change in October and
will take comments from the
public in writing until January
13, along with a public
hearing at its regional offi ce
in Queens on January 8.
The agency ultimately decides
whether to make the
Advocates accused the state of trying to backtrack its commitments to cleaning the Gowanus Canal.
Photo by Kevin Duggan
change, but their resolution
could be challenged in court,
Doran said.
“It’s up to DEC, but that’s
not to say they’re not subject
to judicial review,” she said.
A spokeswoman for the
agency denied claims that the
classifi cation changes would
deprive the Gowanus Canal of
funding, adding that the state
will continue to invest big
bucks in Brooklyn’s Nautical
Purgatory.
“There is no backsliding by
the state under this proposed
clarifi cation and through
our ongoing and aggressive
enforcement oversight, hundreds
of millions of dollars
is being spent on projects to
improve the water quality in
the Gowanus,” said Maureen
Wren.
Gowanus funding
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