No kidding.
https://www.amny.com/new-york/brookl...pollution-epa/
Developers of a massive affordable housing complex along the Gowanus Canal will have to deal with a century’s worth of harmful pollution before they can safely house people, a federal environmental guru warned.
The project near Smith and Fifth streets, known as Gowanus Green, will house nearly 1,000 below-market-rate apartments and a new public school building — but buried chemical remains from a former gas plant at the site could seep into the planned structure and endanger the health of the building’s occupants unless developers and government officials install the right protections, an Environmental Protection Agency rep said.
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