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.

particularly given that the community has been subjected to foul odors for months from this highly toxic site during this critical phase of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup,” one letter ...

The Red Hook tank is critical to the success of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup and will prevent contamination of the ...

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection finished the excavation that will hold an eight-million-gallon ...

A long-delayed project critical to the success of the Gowanus Canal Superfund cleanup reached an early milestone this week, ...

The tank is an 8-million-gallon underground facility designed to capture sewage overflow and prevent it from spilling into ...

As Brooklyn grew, the New York State Legislature, in 1849, authorized the construction of a two-mile-long Gowanus Canal for navigational and docking facilities in the port of New York City.

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 ...