SUPERFUNDING the GOWANUS CANAL!
Dear Ms. Jackson,
Please, EPA, SUPERFUND the GOWANUS!
I've lived in the vicinity of Brooklyn's toxic Gowanus Canal for four decades. From time to time over the years New York City has talked about cleaning up the Gowanus -- yet has done little to de-tox Brooklyn's infamous Love Canal.
It is well known that New York's current Mayor, Bloomberg, practises Government By & For Developers. Bloomberg's Developer buddies have convinced him that Superfund designation will be the ruination of any site so named, kill off the only thing that matters here: Economic Development. Therefore, Bloomberg & Co. would rather not use the Superfund Word in NYC-- too stigmatizing. Developers bank on the mayor's support for a quick verbal de-toxing of the Gowanus site: simply DON'T apply the toxic "S" word to it. (NYC will once again promise a quick & dirty cleasing, declare the Gowanus fit for EcDev -- though not for healthy life -- save the developers a lot of money.) NYC just waves the non-toxic word wand and bank loans flow to the Gowanus. .....
The only possible way to clean up the Gowanus miasma is for the EPA to SUPERFUND the GOWANUS. (NYC cannot be trusted to do the job.) Please SUPERFUND the GOWANUS! NOW.
Thank you.
Patti Hagan
117 St. Marks Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217-2410
Please, EPA, SUPERFUND the GOWANUS!
I've lived in the vicinity of Brooklyn's toxic Gowanus Canal for four decades. From time to time over the years New York City has talked about cleaning up the Gowanus -- yet has done little to de-tox Brooklyn's infamous Love Canal.
It is well known that New York's current Mayor, Bloomberg, practises Government By & For Developers. Bloomberg's Developer buddies have convinced him that Superfund designation will be the ruination of any site so named, kill off the only thing that matters here: Economic Development. Therefore, Bloomberg & Co. would rather not use the Superfund Word in NYC-- too stigmatizing. Developers bank on the mayor's support for a quick verbal de-toxing of the Gowanus site: simply DON'T apply the toxic "S" word to it. (NYC will once again promise a quick & dirty cleasing, declare the Gowanus fit for EcDev -- though not for healthy life -- save the developers a lot of money.) NYC just waves the non-toxic word wand and bank loans flow to the Gowanus. .....
The only possible way to clean up the Gowanus miasma is for the EPA to SUPERFUND the GOWANUS. (NYC cannot be trusted to do the job.) Please SUPERFUND the GOWANUS! NOW.
Thank you.
Patti Hagan
117 St. Marks Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217-2410
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