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September 29, 2006
Beware the Gowanus Canal Sh*t Storm
Gowanus Lounge
Nobody knows better than residents around the Gowanus Canal what happens when it rains real hard in South-Central Brooklyn. Gowanus Lounge published its own account earlier this year.
This description is from an article by Christopher Ketcham:
The sewer streams underground run down to the old swampland and surface in the storm eye into scuddable foam, two and sometimes three feet deep...Manholes pop open and dash in the stream like discuses, and from them white-brown geysers frolic, four feet in the air, and around the geysers the water bashes in boiling waves, pauses in eddies, and shoots off in a tomato-colored stream west, making for the waterfalls on the banks of the canal, which speeds in its ebb to the sea.
Don't worry, says Ratner's Atlantic Yards Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), when they're done, there will be less of that sh*t going around, causing the FROGGies (Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus) to raise their eyebrows in their testimony on the Combined Sewage Overflows.
The FROGGies point out that the weather data used by the engineering firm that wrote the DEIS is from 1988, and that data collected since then is showing that the existing problem is much worse than the DEIS admits.
This sh*t is serious, so click here for more details.
Posted by lumi at September 29, 2006 9:51 AM