Brooklyn’s Infamous Gowanus Canal Given Superfund Status By EPA » Brooklyn’s Infamous Gowanus Canal Given Superfund Status By EPA
NEW YORK – MARCH 02: The heavily polluted Gowanus Canal on March 2, 2010 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The 140-year-old Brooklyn waterway has just been named as a Superfund site by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. The move to cleanup of the Gowanus, which was opposed by the Bloomberg administration, will cost between $300 million and $500 million and could take 10 to 12 years. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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