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Mayor Bloomberg will prove he's not scared of no stinkin' canal when he visits Gowanus later today to announce the “start” of his $150-million effort to improve water quality there. Currently he's up against the fed's push to turn the Gowanus Canal into a Superfund site; something he believes will be too expensive, take too long and ruin the future re$idential area with a toxic stigma.
The Brooklyn Paper reports that the the opposition feels the "Superfund designation is the best way to secure funding because it allows the government to go after the actual polluters who have sullied the former Gowanus Creek for more than a century."
The press conference comes with a press van that will allegedly bring City Hall reporters to the canal; and we're guessing the octopus and his friends will show up to speak out on the Superfund's behalf. Next stop: Newtown Creek?
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It's nice that the feds want to clean this up but Bloomie has a point. The federal government doesn't do anything quickly except try to hustle monstrous 1000+ page bills through congress before anybody can ever read them.
gowanus and newtown creek have been polutted for the last 100 years - this has been under the local govt watch. who cares what bloomberg says he's going to now - they've had 100 years already
too late bloomberg, you've had your chance.
all bloomberg wants is to turn it over to developers who will pretend to clean it up or sort of clean it up and then let people live over it.
Blinky agrees.
I'm with Bloomberg on this. There are places in Jersey City that have had Superfund designation since the 90's, and nothing has been done there.
Newtown creek should just be filled in. I don't think it's possible to clean it.
Who's had 100 years already? Bloomberg? Jeez, has he been in office that long? Your "they've had their chance" argument doesn't really make sense.
It's true that the Fed would probably do a more thorough clean-up in the long term, but it's also true that work on Superfund projects often doesn't start for decades after the designation due to the lengthy litigation process. It took over 25 years to get started on GE's PCB spill in the Hudson. So yeah, Bloomberg does have a point. In any case, glad something's finally being done.
100 years of Bloomberg? Yeah, that's about how it feels.
so now he's interested in cleaning it up and visiting the outer boroughs? too late, we voted for term limits twice.
you've had plenty of chances. tell your developer buddies to scoot.
If he does a backstroke, then, then I'll be impressed