NYS DEC/DOH Community Availability Session on Soil Vapor Intrusion, Thursday, September 19, 7 p.m.

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…artment of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health will hold a Community Availability Session on the Gowanus Canal Area-Wide Soil Vapor Intrusion Investigation on Thursday, September 19, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at PS 372, 215 1st Street in Gowanus. During the session, DEC and DOH will present a summary of their 2023/2024 heating season sampling, and a preview of their monitoring plans for the 2024/2025 winter heating season. In addition…

Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group Resolution Asks EPA to Include Former Citizens Manufactured Gas Plant Site within Purview of Gowanus Superfund Cleanup

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…o the site’s Parcel 4. The resolution reads as follows: Background: It has come to the Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group’s (CAG) attention that National Grid and NYSDEC (DEC) have not been able to gain access to Parcel 4 (Bklyn Block 468, Lot 25) of the former Citizens MGP Works site for several years because the property owner refuses to allow access to the property. This prevents National Grid and DEC from performing sampling of the existin…

Gowanus Canal Superfund Cleanup Community Update #6

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…In December, the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP), under the supervision of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, began the second phase of construction of the 8-million-gallon combined sewer overflow (CSO) retention tank integral to the cleanup of the Gowanus Canal Superfund site. You can read about this work, and other news, in the EPA’s Community Update #6, embedded below and available as a PDF here….

Minutes of the February 3, 2025 Meeting of the Gowanus Canal CAG Water Quality & Technical Committee

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…Kleinman, Margaret Maugenest, Susan Yung Guests: Aaron Kaufman (Trust) The Committee finalized the follow-up questions for EPA Remedial Project Manager Victoria Sacks: PDF here and already sent to her (thanks to Erica for the formatting cleanup!). That item took up much of the meeting, but we also agreed that Erica would follow up with Mr. Fegal regarding the NYS DEC water quality standards review. She has already done so. We also agreed that I wo…

EPA Notifies Gowanus-Area Property Owners of Planned Plugging of Unpermitted Outfall Pipes

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…PA Assistant Regional Counsel Brian Carr to unnamed property owners, was accompanied by maps and a table indicating the locations of the outfalls that will be plugged. The letter asks the property owners to contact EPA regarding the outfalls. See a PDF version of the letter here. See maps of the unpermitted outfall locations between the head of the canal and Union Street Bridge and the Union Street and Carroll Street Bridges. See a table of all un…

Minutes of the November 9, 2018 Meeting of the Gowanus Canal CAG Outreach Committee

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…no development positions, looking for common ground, and potentially, a recommendation for a Community Benefits Agreement. Jordan Heiden from the Gowanus Canal Conservancy sitting in for Christine. Future of the Outreach Committee Mission is to inform the larger community about what’s going on with the Canal cleanup. Encouraging organizational members to publicize CAG meetings and activities, especially for important meetings, like November (Pete…

Next Gowanus Canal Community Advisory Group Meeting: Tuesday, November 26, 6:30 p.m.

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…Administrative Committee Archaeology and Historic Preservation Committee Land Use Committee Outreach Committee Water Quality/Technical Committee 8:30 p.m.: Adjourn Guests are always welcome to comment and ask questions using the chat function. All Gowanus CAG meetings are open to the public, unless specifically noted otherwise….

Upcoming Gowanus Canal CAG Committee Meetings, week of May 4th

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…he meeting, please email CAG Facilitator Doug Sarno at doug[at]forumfg[dot]com for log-in credentials. Water Quality/Technical Committee, Monday, May 4, 6:00 p.m. If you’re interested in joining the meeting, please email the Gowanus Canal Conservancy’s Andrea Parker at andrea[at]gowanuscanalconservancy[dot]org for log-in credentials. Land Use Committee, Tuesday, May 5, 7:00 p.m. If you’re interested in joining the meeting, please email the Gowanus…