Superfund Designation: Good for Gowanus?
The Real Deal 2010, March 31
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Byline: C. J. Hughes At left: The canal, a narrow 1.8-mile, tilde-shaped waterway, includes bits of neighborhoods like Park Slope and Carroll Gardens. At right: The EPA plan would curb runoff and remove the sludge in the Gowanus Canal. Last month, Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal became one of the most polluted places in the country, at least in the eyes of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, which named it to the infamous "Superfund" cleanup list.