DEP Dig on Butler
There’s a bunch of activity at the Department of Environmental Protection site at 196 Butler Street. This is the site where the canal dead-ends and where, we believe, the fan that is supposed to circulate the water in the canal (the one that was broken for so many years) is located. Anyone know what they’re…
There’s a bunch of activity at the Department of Environmental Protection site at 196 Butler Street. This is the site where the canal dead-ends and where, we believe, the fan that is supposed to circulate the water in the canal (the one that was broken for so many years) is located. Anyone know what they’re up to in there? GMAP
The pump that went offline pumps water, believe it or not, from NYC harbor near where the BB Tunnel is to the end of the canal on Butler St. It’s job was to flush cleaner water into the canal. Those who were around in the mid 90’s remember the difference this pump made. You used to be able to smell the canal in the summer from blocks away.
Boerumresident:
Here you go,
http://watercourses.typepad.com/watercourses/
Anyone interested in maps should try the Brooklyn Historical Society in the Heights. Great selection of archives, tons of maps and very knowledgeable staff…You need to call in advance before you can get into the stuff.
Here’s a somewhat dated article that explains what is broken:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/31/42/31_42_mm_gowanus.html
@Denton: And a clarapeller moves hamburgers.
it wasn’t a stream it was an inlet.
-and it didn’t go inland as far.
Does anyone know where there are maps online that show the old streams in the area? I know they exist for Manhattan (with an overlay of the street grid), but I have not ever seen one for Brooklyn.
nature “planned” it as a deadend because it once was an actual stream.
What foresight the planners had in dead-ending the Gowanus while their neighbors completely obliterated the enormous stocks of oysters in the harbor and surrounding waterways. A 3- to 6-knot current and two high tides each day of about 5 feet can do some serious flushing… we wouldn’t be having this conversation. I say open it back up.
My plan also calls for flooding 14th, 34, & Canal streets in Manhattan. Let’s connect the waterways. 🙂