More Toxic News for North Brooklyn
There’ve been plenty of reports of dangerous chemicals being found in the ground all over North Brooklyn as a result of the area’s former life as a manufacturing center, but one corner of Greenpoint is turning out to be particularly toxic. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the Department of Environmental Conservation has been testing soil…
There’ve been plenty of reports of dangerous chemicals being found in the ground all over North Brooklyn as a result of the area’s former life as a manufacturing center, but one corner of Greenpoint is turning out to be particularly toxic. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the Department of Environmental Conservation has been testing soil in a section of Northeastern Greenpoint since 2008 with scary results. One site at the corner of Kingsland and Norman Avenues has recently proven to be the worst yet, with 73 million parts perchloroethylene (a dry cleaning chemical) per billion in the groundsoil; the contamination goes back to the first half of the last century. As the flags in this map indicate, the Kingsland site is not the only problem location. Nor are all of the offending businesses defunct: The article names ACME Metal Works and ACME Steel and Brass Foundry, both still in business, as having contributed to contamination in the area. Pleasant.
Pollution Under Greenpoint? It’s Worse [Brooklyn Paper]
Now they’re going to have to start getting their water from the city pipes instead of using the backyard wells I suppose.
Or 73 per 1000 or 7.3%
This isn’t news. Take a look around that place.
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the contamination goes back to the first half of the last century
and yet people have been living to ripe old ages in this area for like ever. really, there is nothing to be concerned about. i bet there’s more toxic chemicals to be found in a single newport.
*rob*
That explains a lot.