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Democracy Now! joins us on the Gowanus Canal to talk about post-Sandy Water Quality

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Pollution report: 11/2, 11/8 and 11/9/12 dry weather CSO discharge at Hamilton Av Br at entrance to Gowanus Canal

On 11/2/12, four days after Sandy, we sampled at the entrance of the Gowanus Canal at the Hamilton Av Bridge and found Enterococcus counts >24,196 per 100ml. The … Read More

11/9/2012: Coal tar in the Gowanus Canal

… see coal tar bubbling up at Poughkeepsie under the Walkway Bridge but nothing comes close to the Gowanus – the worst of the worst. Thank you EPA for finally stepping in and enforcing a cleanup … Read More

Simple Answers to Common Questions about the Gowanus Canal Cleanup

It took nearly 150 years of neglect for the Gowanus Canal to earn the distinction as one of the nation’s most extensively polluted … Read More

Ten Feet of Black Mayonnaise: A Day on the Gowanus Canal

Gowanus Canal To Feature ‘Sponge Park’ Green Infrastructure

Riverkeeper Provides Additional Insight into EPA Feasibility Study for Cleanup of Gowanus Canal

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tina Posterli, 516-526-9371, [email protected] Member of the Gowanus Community Advisory Group and Technical/Water Quality sub-committee will comment at January … Read More

Cleaning up Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal—the right way

… year’s investigation, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed cleanup options for the Gowanus Canal that would finally give Brooklyn residents their waterway back. The two primary … Read More

Riverkeeper Announces Major Victory in Gowanus Canal Enforcement Campaign

… of other companies owned by Jacob Marmurstein $482,750 for years of dumping pollution into the Gowanus Canal. Riverkeeper originally filed a Notice of Intent to Sue (NOIS) against 107 Sixth … Read More

Gowanus Canal Is ‘Heavily’ Polluted, EPA Confirms

Tell Gov. Hochul to block invasive species at the Erie and Champlain canals
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