New Clean-up Plan for Gowanus: Oysters

Construction has begun on a new pier at the mouth of the Gowanus canal, which will house a park and oyster reef to naturally filter and purify the polluted Superfund site, the Associated Press has reported. The park and living reef are being designed by landscape architect Kate Orff of Scape/Landscape Architecture PLLC. Hundreds of years ago, the waterways of New York teemed with oysters. One oyster can filter up to 50 gallons of water a day.
New York’s New Environmental Hero, the Oyster [AP]]
Scape Studio Plans to Build a Park with Oysters to Clean Canal [Inhabitat]
Living Reef Made of Millions of Oysters to Clean the Gowanus [Curbed]
Rendering by Scape