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The New York City government feared that designating the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site would result in many potentially costly lawsuits against polluters. [70] Meanwhile, the area directly to the east of the Gowanus neighborhood was rezoned for high density residential use with a strong commercial component in 2003. [106]
Superfund sites in New York are designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). CERCLA, a federal law passed in 1980, authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
List of Superfund sites in New York; 0–9. 102nd Street chemical landfill; B. ... Edgemere Landfill; G. Gowanus Canal; Griffiss Air Force Base; H. Hudson River; L.
The New York City School Construction Authority is considering breaking ground on a new elementary school in Brooklyn – across the street from a state Superfund site with a history of ...
The material used from this $506 million EPA-supervised cleanup of the Gowanus Canal Superfund site, to be paid for by firms the agency would find responsible for the canal's pollution, would be the "lowest-level contaminants", which would then be mixed with a "'concrete-like…stabilizing material that could safely be deposited in open water ...
Riverkeeper also acts on Superfund sites like Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek. New York City's two most notoriously polluted waterways were listed as federal Superfund sites within months of each other in the 2010s. Since then, a full-fledged cleanup has begun in Gowanus Canal – yet Newtown Creek has no relief in sight.
In 1636, Gowanus Bay – named after Gauwane (Gouwane, lit. "the sleeper"), a Canarsee Indian [2] [3] – was the site of the first settlement by Dutch farmers in what is now Brooklyn. [4] The ponds of Gowanus meadowlands served to drive early settlers' tide-powered gristmills which were situated along the
In 2006, the UDL’s research on the Gowanus Canal’s remediation contributed to the Environmental Protection Agency’s designation of the area as a Superfund site, as well as the subsequent creative renewal of the neighborhood. [2] The EPA began the cleanup of the Superfund site on January 29, 2020.