Bloomberg Speaks Out Against Superfunding

how about Yucca Flats Wine Bar?

Uranium Mine Elementary School?

get the land to market, if the EPA does it "RIGHT" even if it takes 10-30 years, what exactly is a developer doing?

walls, rubber sheeting? pouring concrete on top of toxic landfill??

what exactly qualifies for living space? concrete?

what about decades of chemical vapors 20 feet away?

thems the breaks?

will you shill for Love Canal Condos?

Chernobyl High Rises?

Ground Zero Dust Duplexes?

Bronx Swamp Community Center?

just because you trust a developer's press release?

Why would this dumbass mayor turn up his nose at an essentially free federal cleanup? Because it screws with a developer's schedule? Who the hell wants to buy condos next to a waterway that could literally give you an STD if you accidentally slipped in during a kickball game or mobbed Xylopholks gig? If Bloomberg feels so assured that the canal can be scrubbed by his buddies, let him be the first to backstroke down its splendid meander once it's been pronounced "clean".

this isn't some septic tank that's leaking.

let EPA do their job, I'm not trusting bloomberg,

is he going to let charter schools in on this sweet deal?

or 311? and, what exactly are his other accomplishments?

let's see, oh yeah, West side stadium, Olympic bid, RNC convention, 2 giant taxpayer funded baseball teams

and, against the will of the people, twice, he extended term limits.

what did they do with gowanus? you have lowes and pathmark on the canal - its still filthy - its hardly USED by the community. There are this sad looking benches that look out over the canal and a scarp metal yard.

fck bloomberg - the city has FAILED its citizens- they havent take take care of these areas - for 100 yrs my family has lived by both these waterways - and they've always been this way - 100 years the city hasnt gotten it together and now they will? fck that - bring in the feds - forget the corrupt local govt.

The problem with turning it over to Superfund is that at that point, the EPA must reach certain thresholds for contaminants before they can leave the site and allow it to be redeveloped, which can be nearly impossible and extremely costly both in time and money...if Superfund takes over they will do it, and do it right, but it might take 20 or 30 years and hundreds of millions of dollars to get there.

In NJ they give developers tax breaks, favorable loans, good terms for acquiring the property, etc. to take over cleanup and get the land to market again. Theyll clean out most of the contaminants, isolate whats left, and have it inspected by the state, then redevelop it (its not qualified for living space if its not cleaned to the most stringent standards).

It's cheaper and faster than the EPA taking over, EPA is not always the right choice. For something this big it might be, but they wont be leaving anytime soon if they end up with this project.

And everyone knows that the corporate interests that will pay for the "clean up" will actually clean it up. More like they'll build on top of the toxic waste and provide their future tenants with luxury cancer.

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill was 10,000,000 gallons of oil,

cleanup cost alone 2.5 billion.

Leaking tanks and pipelines, spillage and explosion in 1950 may have contributed to the presence of between 17 and 30 million gallons of oil in the ground. The petroleum was found when U.S. Coast Guard observed an oil slick on the Newtown Creek in 1978.

The spill, originally up to three times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill, first covered over 100 acres (0.40 km2) in the mostly industrial northeast section of the community. In January 2006, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) and oil company representatives asserted that about 9 million gallons of free product had been cleaned up.

Cleanup by ExxonMobil began in 1979, and continues [2]. Although 9 million gallons of petroleum have been removed, more than 8 million gallons of oil and byproducts from petroleum are considered to remain underground while the clean up continues. The spill now covers about 55 acres.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint_oil_spill

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Bloomberg wants us to believe that private interests who want to build condos, restaurants and amusement parks on

what used to be industrial creeks full of sludge will do the job for the benefit of selling another glass shoebox apt?

Factoring in the cost of cleanup into profitability

would mean that apts would cost 999k a square foot.

(thats a guestimate)

And in the days that you cant trust a developer to put up sheetrock correctly, prevent leaks or mold or even trust the square footage, we should trust them to clean up a toxic spill thats well documented as the WORST environmental disaster in US history.

Bloomberg cant be that out of touch, its pure evil.

What's so terrible about somebody coming in and cleaning it up with private money? They might even open up a business that provides a few jobs. Remember those? Last time I checked we really needed them. Oh wait, I forgot, it's the age of Obama, we're all going to live on government handouts.

how can the city clean up the canals when they can't clean up the Department of Buildings????

What has the city done with the sites until now?!

They are still cleaning up an oil spill in Newtown creek after 60 years!

Gowanus and Newtown creek are CRIMINALLY polluted because the city was looking out of business/developers.

fck Bloomberg and his corruption. I dont want him protecting me. They havent done a good job up till now

Yeah and instead of the feds, "we" will get the "benefits" from the developer kick-backs. Keep the graft local by all means mayor!

All pols make me sicker than the ooze from the Gowanus Canal.