Developers See Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal as an Alluring New Waterfront. But for Years, It Stunk.
The US Environment Protection Agency EPA has been working for 12 years on two huge underground tanks to keep sewage overflows from polluting the canal. The city’s DEP, which for years has done little to speed the process, announced late last month that it’s now ahead of schedule.
Hazardous: Second in a series about the ongoing struggle to clean up Brooklyn’s Superfund sites.
