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City Launches Gowanus Canal Cleanup

NEW YORK CITY-The Bloomberg administration hopes to avoid Superfund designation for the Gowanus Canal corridor, which it's planning to rezone.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on October 12, 2009

NEW YORK CITY-The Bloomberg administration will implement its own plan to rehabilitate the Gowanus Canal, a move that city officials hope will circumvent a possible federal Superfund designation for the long-polluted Brooklyn waterway. Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday announced the start of a $150-million project to improve water quality in the canal and said the plan would get the job done faster than going through the Superfund process, which could stymie development near the site for decades.

“This project is a big step toward a comprehensive clean-up that will reduce odors, improve the canal’s ecology and encourage recreational use of this waterway,” Bloomberg said Friday. “And by continuing our partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers–instead of risking years of delay through the Superfund process–we can get the canal cleaned-up as thoroughly as Superfund, but more quickly and efficiently so that this neighborhood continues to grow and thrive.”

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