More Gowanus Goop
There’s a lot of discussion these days about the best way to clean up the Gowanus Canal, but before that happens we should at least find a way to stop its ongoing pollution. These two photos were sent in by a reader who took them from the 9th Street bridge. The gate on the east…
There’s a lot of discussion these days about the best way to clean up the Gowanus Canal, but before that happens we should at least find a way to stop its ongoing pollution. These two photos were sent in by a reader who took them from the 9th Street bridge. The gate on the east side of the street was open, so he walked along the canal and discovered that the spillage was coming from a woodworking business. WTF?
This morning two ducks were swimming about under the 9th street bridge…
Benign Toxicity? Historically appropriate pollution? You guys work for Fox News?
I took the photo because it stopped me dead in my tracks. I’m not talking a little rainbow drifting off a creosote log piling. It covered several football fields!
nsr, see you at the next landmarks committee meeting.
The picture on the right is the Gowanus and the pic on the left is the miasmic garbage that spews forth from the What right?
If it is historically appropriate pollution, I don’t think there is a problem. Even if the chemical composition is new, as long as it doesn’t clash with the look and feel of the original pollution, that’s fine.
Nothing wrong with a little tasteful modernization, but we have to be careful not to let some government agency like the EPA just come in here and start gentrifying this neighborhood and destroying its historic foulness.
The Gowanus was purpose-built as an open sewer. It was supposed to carry industrial waste away into the ocean. That’s how it was done in the old days, and it appears that old habits are hard to break.
It looks terrible, probably smells worse, but I’m sure it’s some kind of benign toxicity.
a local artist will turn that pattern into a clothing design. gowanus couture.
WTF is right. Where’s the DEP on this??? How can a business be pumping waste into the canal in 2009??? That woodworking shop is probably dumping stripping waste in there. Only thing worse would be a plating shop.