{"id":184,"date":"2013-04-21T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.prattsils.org\/?p=184"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:58:49","slug":"the-gowanus-canal-a-superfund-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2013\/the-gowanus-canal-a-superfund-site","title":{"rendered":"The Gowanus Canal: A Superfund Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Almost&nbsp;immediately&nbsp;upon its completion in the 1860&#8217;s, the Gowanus Canal in South Brooklyn became known for its contamination. &nbsp;In 1887 the&nbsp;<em>New York Times&nbsp;<\/em>reported that the Canal &#8220;was pronounced to be offensive and dangerous to the health of the people presiding in the vicinity&#8221;. &nbsp;This &#8220;water highway&#8221; was purported to carry the power of the sea right into the city, bringing with it industrial capabilities; but in fact, the dead-ended canal was a semi-stagnant body of water without tidal flow to flush its contents out into Gowanus Bay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On March 4, 2010, after over 100 years of degeneration and political paralysis, the Gowanus Canal was finally designated as a Superfund Site by the Federal Government. &nbsp;This designation allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate contamination at the site and develop a remedy. &nbsp;As recently as March 2013, the EPA finalized a $500 million plan to dredge and cap the Gowanus Canal; however, the cleanup has yet to begin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">At the SILS showcase, Lauren Reinhalter will present the methodology and findings of the research she did on the history of the Gowanus Canal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/GowanusTimeline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-975 aligncenter\" alt=\"GowanusTimeline\" src=\"http:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/04\/GowanusTimeline-300x226.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost immediately upon its completion in the 1860&#8217;s, the Gowanus Canal in South Brooklyn became known for its contamination.  In 1887 the New York Times reported that the Canal &#8220;was pronounced to be offensive and dangerous to the health of the people presiding in the vicinity&#8221;.  This &#8220;water highway&#8221; was purported to carry the power of the sea right into the city, bringing with it industrial capabilities; but in fact, the dead-ended canal was a semi-stagnant body of water without tidal flow to flush its contents out into Gowanus Bay.<\/p>\n<p>On March 4, 2010, after over 100 years of degeneration and political paralysis, the Gowanus Canal was finally designated as a Superfund Site by the Federal Government.  This designation allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate contamination at the site and develop a remedy.  As recently as March 2013, the EPA finalized a $500 million plan to dredge and cap the Gowanus Canal; however, the cleanup has yet to begin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":7597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,6],"coauthors":[359],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2","tag-brooklyn","tag-government-documents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}