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I'm sure that people will learn a lot from doing this. But it's not going to make much difference in "cleaning up" the Canal. The Gowanus Canal is on the EPA's

I'm sure that people will learn a lot from doing this. But it's not going to make much difference in "cleaning up" the Canal. The Gowanus Canal is on the EPA's Superfund National Priorities List. The actual cleanup will cost $506 million and take until 2022. That's "the rest of the story". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal#Cleanup_efforts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal#Cleanup_efforts

DonHopkins 11y ago
Wow, that's a depressing read. > The building of new sewer connections only compounded the problem by discharging raw sewage from neighborhoods even farther away into the Canal. By the turn of the century, the combination of industrial pollutants and runoff from storm water, fortified with the products of the new sewage system, rendered the waterway a repository of rank odors, euphemistically called by wise-cracking locals "Lavender Lake". Such a shitty place, but so aptly named gowANUS cANAL. http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/11/13/these_photos_of_gowanus_canal_sludge_are_weirdly_beautiful.php http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/11/13/these_photos_of_gow...