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… the individual LTCPs for Alley Creek, Westchester Creek, Hutchinson River, Flushing Creek and the Gowanus Canal and provide a look ahead to the upcoming LTCPs for Bronx River and Coney Island. In … Read More

… water quality. Outside of the Capital District and New York City waters like the Newtown Creek and Gowanus Canal that receive exceptional combined sewage overflow discharges, the Rondout Creek … Read More

… slightly every year, mixing with the sediment or washing out, while legacies of industry – Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek, PCBs dumped by General Electric – remain a challenge, says Dennis … Read More

… waters. The city is implementing a $2.4 billion CSO Long Term Control Plan and the $500 million Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup calls for controlling sewage discharges in addition to toxic waste … Read More

… Protection Agency guidelines for safe swimming. In New York City, Newtown Creek, the Gowanus Canal and the Harlem River were among the sites to fail, demonstrating the lingering … Read More

… will come. Humans are drawn to water. It takes a powerful repellent to keep us away. Just ask the Gowanus Dredgers, whose love of Brooklyn’s blighted canal isn’t undone by stinking, … Read More

… so effective.” —Mary McNamara Tashjian, Lower Esopus Watershed Partnership A New Dawn for the Gowanus A $506 million Superfund cleanup that will not only clean up 150 years’ worth of … Read More

… concerns about the impacts that proposed permanent in-water storm barriers at Newtown Creek, the Gowanus Canal and Rockaway Inlet could have on water quality in the Hudson River Estuary, and the … Read More

… fracking regulations draws near and the public comment period for the proposed cleanup of the Gowanus Canal is underway. Nine out of fourteen legal issues in the Indian Point relicensing … Read More