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The E.P.A. is considering designating the Gowanus Canal as a superfund site.  WNYC interviews David Yassky:

The federal Environmental Protection Agency wants to find out. It’s proposing putting the industrial waterway in Brooklyn on its Superfund site. Councilman David Yassky, whose district includes the nearly two-mile long canal, says this is good news.

YASSKY: The Gowanus Canal, if it’s cleaned up, we can then have housing and restaurants and the whole waterfront life right alongside it. But first we gotta clean it up.

[WNYC]