Day: December 7, 2015

Gowanus Canal

Developer tries to give Gowanus a free park, but city doesn’t want it, by George Fiala

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was tasked with the job of cleaning up the toxic Gowanus Canal in 2009, following over 100 years of unbenign neglect on the part of New York City. The canal was declared a Superfund site over the objections of New York City, who felt that passive measures, such as building bioswales, would clean the canal […]