Gowanus Flushing Impacts Columbia Street
Some serious construction is getting started on the Columbia Street Waterfront, where a $50 million rehab of a “flushing tunnel” running from the Gowanus Canal to the Buttermilk Channel will improve the water quality of the Gowanus Canal. (This construction is independent of the superfund cleaning.) The Brooklyn Paper shared some details of the construction…
Some serious construction is getting started on the Columbia Street Waterfront, where a $50 million rehab of a “flushing tunnel” running from the Gowanus Canal to the Buttermilk Channel will improve the water quality of the Gowanus Canal. (This construction is independent of the superfund cleaning.) The Brooklyn Paper shared some details of the construction back in July; this is a recent picture of Degraw at Columbia Street, which will be closed for nine-months. Other sites include Degraw and Tompkins, and Butler between Bond and Nevins. The various aspects of the construction will last up to 27 months.
To Clean the Gowanus, Columbia Street Gets Messy [The Brooklyn Paper]
STARGAZER, but if they filled it in, where would all of Park Slope’s raw sewage go? That question should be a joke in the 21st century, but unfortunately it isn’t.
Hurry up! The canal is looking and smelling particularly vile.
The saga of DEP’s attempts to reactivate this flushing tunnel, going back 40 years or so, is a farce that makes the 2nd Avenue subway look like a paragon of efficient public works.
This Gowanus Canal has been nothing but a problem for everyone, I still say it should have been drained and filled in.
Waste of our taxpayer dollars.
I feel really bad for the businesses on Columbia… it’s like a never-ending construction mess over there. I thought (and probably everyone thought) it was finally being finished up over there and now this. Yuck.