Congresswoman Yvette Clarke
Important Environmental Issue In Congresswoman Clarke's District:
The Gowanus Canal
The Gowanus Canal
The Cobble Hill Association will host roundtable meeting with Congresswoman Yvette Clarke on Monday, January 11th to discuss various issues pertaining to her district and will
I would like to thank the Cobble Hill Association and its president Roy Sloane for organizing the event.
I will certainly be in attendance. I believe that Congresswoman Clarke owes her constituents an explanation for her failure to take a stand on the proposed listing of the Gowanus Canal as a Superfund site. She has been tiptoeing around the issue for months claiming she is doing due-diligence. As opposed to Congresswoman Velázquez's strong pro-Superfund statement, Ms. Clarke's fence-sitting has been deplorable.
I had lengthy conversations with the Congresswoman's staff about this very important environmental issue and hope to have an opportunity to finally hear directly from Ms. Clarke.
with Congresswoman Yvette Clark
Monday, January 11th
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3 comments:
About time. Yvette must be gearing up for the 2010 elections.
If she comes out in favor of the superfund I wonder what the most senior member of the IND will have to say.
Clark's district includes that part of the Gowanus Canal north of the Union Street bridge. Here is where the city spills the bulk of the untreated sewage into the waterway. This is the same location where the additional sewage from the Ratner project will be dumped into the water.
Clark's piece of the canal is not the most polluted according to the Army Corp data (that standing goes to the area of the canal near the Toll and Whole Foods site) but this upper portion of the canal runs a close second in terms of pollution levels. This section of the canal also effects substantial existing residential areas. It's time that Clark accept that the only real proposal on the table to cleanup this canal is coming from our federal EPA, not the mayor's office, where a half-baked and non-funded cleanup plan was cobbled together in hast by lawyers in the mayor's office.
Let's hope that the New Year brings new understanding and perspective to our congresswoman, Yvette Clark.
The main contaminant to the portion of the Canal north of Union Street (Clarke's District) are CSOs. She shouldn't support the Superfund unless the EPA changes their mind and helps our City address Canal contamination from our old sewer system.
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