The decision comes as a blow to the Bloomberg administration, which had proposed a cleanup that would avoid such a designation. The city argued that the designation could set off legal battles with polluters, defer completion of a cleanup and torpedo construction by developers deterred by the stigma of a Superfund label.
The E.P.A. estimated that the federal cleanup would last 10 to 12 years and cost $300 million to $500 million. Read the rest of this click here
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Great news about the cleanup, and thanks for posting it, Andy. If you read the coverage at Wall Street Journal.com, it says a canoe club (Gowanus Dredgers?) was to have had a new clubhouse built as part of the Toll Brothers development. Too bad that got axed.
Rockaway Vivian
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