The EPA has been working for 12 years on two huge underground tanks to keep sewage overflows from polluting the canal. The ...
Officials tested the air at P.S. 372 The Children’s School earlier this year as part of a larger Soil Vapor Intrusion study in the neighborhood surrounding the toxic Gowanus Canal Superfund site.
Built in 1869, the Gowanus Canal was once a major transportation route connecting the Upper New York Bay and the interior of Brooklyn. For decades, the 1.8-mile channel served as a landing point ...
Residents living near Brooklyn’s toxic Gowanus Canal will be able to find out within weeks if their building is contaminated with cancer-causing vapors — but only if they can talk their ...
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection finished the excavation that will hold an eight-million-gallon ...
The Red Hook tank is critical to the success of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup and will prevent contamination of the ...
The tank is an 8-million-gallon underground facility designed to capture sewage overflow and prevent it from spilling into ...
F, G at Carroll St.; F, G at Smith-9th Sts. Constructed in the 1860s, the 1.5-mile-long Gowanus Canal was once a bustling commercial waterway, used to transport cargo to and from oil plants ...
A long-delayed project critical to the success of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup reached an early milestone this week, as the city finished excavating space for a massive underground sewer ...