As CG CORD has been unfortunately reporting, a plan to put thousands of new residents on a highly contaminated/toxic Gowanus Brooklyn site continues unstopped and unabated. This does not bode well for Gowanus.
"Developers of a massive affordable housing complex along the Gowanus Canal will have to deal with a century’s worth of harmful pollution before they can safely house people, a federal environmental guru warned."
"The project near Smith and Fifth streets, known as Gowanus Green, will house nearly 1,000 below-market-rate apartments and a new public school building — but buried chemical remains from a former gas plant at the site could seep into the planned structure and endanger the health of the building’s occupants unless developers and government officials install the right protections, an Environmental Protection Agency rep said."
"“If you put a structure like a school or a building, those compounds that are 8, 10, 15 feet down, they will volatilize,” said Christos Tsiamis, who is managing the Gowanus Superfund cleanup, at a Dec. 1 community meeting. “It might be in five years, it might be in 10 years, they will find a path and they will come inside the enclosed structure and they will build up.”"
Despite all warnings from the EPA and countless community groups, the City of New York begs to differ. Science does not matter.
