New Letter to the EPA from a Carroll Gardens/Gowanus Resident
We at CORD are very grateful to have the following letter to the EPA from one of our neighbors to publish. We encourage more people to write to the EPA! And, please send us your thoughts about the Superfunding of the Gowanus Canal, as well as concerns, memories, of Carroll Gardens/Gowanus etc., so that we can keep in touch with one another. You can use our address at cgcord@gmail.com for your submissions.
Letters like the one below are seen and read by so many different people in our community including our electeds. We encourage you to use your voice to fight with, and to join us!United, we can fight more effectively for the preservation and much- needed respectful development of our beloved Carroll Gardens! Register for our free newsletter on the right hand side of our blog at www.carrollgardenspetition.
Thank you.
CORD
To: superfund.docket@epa.gov
Subject: HQ SSUND 2009-0063
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 13:13:35 -0400
To the US EPA Representative:
My name is Patricia Constantino and I am a 30 plus year resident of Carroll Gardens. I am a property owner and live a few blocks from the Gowanus Canal.
The Canal is extremely toxic and is a hazard to the community. Since I can remember there has been talk about and some attempts to clean up this heavily contaminated canal. There are developers and politicians who favor a site by site cleanup. This piecemeal approach to clean up the Canal is not in the best interest of the people who live here. We need to have a comprehensive cleanup of the whole 1.5 mile waterway.
I am pleased that the EPA is giving us the opportunity to have this once thriving waterway restored. I am for the designation of the Gowanus Canal as a Superfundsite and to have full control of the effort turned over to the EPA.
Your consideration of this urgent matter is greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Patricia Constantino
40 Third Street
Brooklyn, NY 11231
