DEP Promises to Clean Up Contaminated Newtown Creek on Queens/Brooklyn Border
Feb 6th, 2008 by Jervey
Greenpoint residents met last week with the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (”DEP”) to beg for a full-scale overhaul of Newtown Creek, an offshoot of the East River that divides Brooklyn and Queens. New York’s largest wastewater treatment plant is located on the grimy creek’s bank, and in the summer, the stench from the plant wafts for miles. The Queens Ledger reported that DEP Commissioner Emily Lloyd hopes to make a series of environmental upgrades in order to bring the plant into compliance with the federal Clean Water Act, including covering all areas where sewage is exposed to the air and building new chlorination tanks.
Originally by Meredith Taylor from greenbuildingsNYC on February 5, 2008, 1:40am