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Sources say that the water from the canal is now going to be bottled and sold under the name 'Gowanus Spring.' They are going to put a picture of a pine tree on the label , so I'm sure that means the water is safe to drink.
I don't know where they started work on this site as of yet, I pass the Canal almost every day, and yet see nothing. They claim it is going to take about 10 years, and the water will still not be promised that great.
I think they should have re-routed the sewers that drain into the canal from the sewerage plants, that would solve the raw sewerage problem, thus making the canal contaminated. that doesn't really take rocket science to figure out.
I think after all these decades of neglect, now in the year 2012 it is so beyond clean that it will take millions of the City's dollars to repair it. I personally think they should just dam the canal, drain it at the mouth, and then just fill it in, plant grass and trees or just let Mother Nature let whatever grows there, grow...she know what to do. It would actually be nice for just natural greenery for a change, without every morsel of land having to have luxury condos on it.
While the idea of having a canal through the neighborhood is nice, since it is a dead end at Butler Street, there is never a flow of clean water entering it, thus making it stagnant. They are doing a flushing tunnel as we speak, but this has been done before, I have no faith in it.
Sources say that the water from the canal is now going to be bottled and sold under the name 'Gowanus Spring.' They are going to put a picture of a pine tree on the label , so I'm sure that means the water is safe to drink.
Look out Poland Spring , NY is taking over!
Careful,
A girlfriend of mine will rush out and buy 4 gallons. (Her week's supply) as she loudly proclaims: "I'd NEVER drink tap water."
She buys her "plastic" water from Food Emporium so she assumes it comes from some pure spring sprouting from the base of Mount Oympus. After all Food Emporium would NEVER put NYC tap water into bottles and sell it as PURE, even WITH a 100,000% markup.
The Gowanus Canal has been worked on for more than 20 years by someone or some agency and not much has been accomplished except areas are now fenced off. These areas are cleared of undergrowth every once in a while but I've not seen any clean-up happening.
I must say that even on hot and humid days the water doesn't smell as "sweetly" as it once did. Can that be considered a clean-up success or is that because it's not so easy to dump any and everything into the Canal?
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You don't see anything being done because all of the work is currently going on underground. They're digging tunnels under Carroll Gardens to connect the Gowanus to New York Harbor to help flush out the canal. There was actually a story just the other day about one of the tunnels under construction destabilizing a building on the Columbia Street Waterfront that caused a wall to collapse (no one was hurt; it was a poultry slaughterhouse).
Once the tunnels are finished, I think you'll see more obvious activity. The next step after the tunnels is to begin dredging. However, the timeline for completion of the clean-up runs through 2020, I think, so it's not going to be ready for swimming any time soon, heh.
Gotta wonder where the poultry slaughterhouse is discharging its wastes.
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