The stench coming from the Gowanus Canal yesterday was rather nasty. I held my nose as I walked over the Union Street bridge. Looking down into the fetid waters of the Gowanus Canal, I could see some incredibly foul stuff floating on the surface. It was raw sewage.
This, of course, is the result of yesterday's and Friday's torrential rains. There, floating by, was the discharge of the storm waters and the domestic sewage that is dumped into the canal from the sewer system's Combined Sewer Overflow points.
I apologize for bringing up such a nasty subject, dear readers. It's just that New York City wants to rezone the Gowanus Canal area from manufacturing to residential. Just a few weeks ago, Toll Brothers, a national development company, was granted a spot-rezoning for a two-block area along the Gowanus so that they can build a residential project on its shores.
Somehow, bringing more people to the Gowanus is supposed to give the city the impetus to fix the sewer problem it has neglected for decades.
For Home Page, click Pardon Me For AskingSomehow, bringing more people to the Gowanus is supposed to give the city the impetus to fix the sewer problem it has neglected for decades.
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8 comments:
Ohhhh. So this is what you mentioned the other day. I can practically smell the photos. Disgusting.
Hi Best View,
Yes, welcome to the lovely Gowanus.
This is what we have to deal with every time there is a heavier rain storm
Disgusting is right.
The way these things generally go is once it is built It will no longer be Tolls problem anymore. They will take the money and run. Even if the market stays bad for sales and it is rental. I'll bet Toll leases it or hires a managment company and takes no heat for the hazzards. Is it really their problem? As far as the POLS who got is all approved as per zoning they will have moved on by then too. We better learn to like it and live with it and maybe be mad as hell the next time we see somthing like this coming.
Vince
this is bloomberg's nyc.
just keep developing and building without any thought of the consequences or fallout of overcrowding an already overcrowded city of middle-class "peasants".
Hey, why not put together a little book -
it's really easy to do on Snapfish, or iPhoto -
of this kind of documentation...make it kind of arty,
but put dates and locations, maybe even quantity of rainfall,
so that it isn't taken as a joke,
and send it to Bloomberg and Amanda Burden.
Something nice to put on their coffee tables...
Hi Anon,
That's actually a really cool idea. I may just do that. I also have some photos from local residents showing street flooding after heavy rains, because after all, the Gowanus area is a flood zone according to Fema.
God knows there a plenty of photos 'floating' around.
And maybe give one to what's his name...von Sprecklestein of Toll Bros.
“most of the sewage sits in the low lying sewer lines for days
festering and mixed with grease hydra carbons mud and
commercial waste, until a heavy rain moves the waste. The most
contaminated sewage is the sludge that sits in the low lying
sewer lines, and where does it go ? into the surrounding water
bodies. “
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