Superfund site

There may just be a non-dystopian future in which the Gowanus Canal goes from federal Superfund site to local swimming hole. According to a report from Crain’s, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is pushing to have the notoriously polluted waterway reclassified, in an attempt to pressure the city to escalate its cleanup effort and make…

In the two years since a 45-acre chunk of North Brooklyn was declared a Superfund site, EPA inspectors have been knocking on doors in Greenpoint and East Williamsburg. Their goal is to determine whether the 1,000 properties built over the Meeker Avenue Plume—a pretty massive pollution site that may be spewing poisonous vapors into the…