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John Lipscomb (Photo: Leslie Albrecht\/DNAinfo)<\/h5>\n

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Via DNAinfo<\/a>\u00a0and Park Slope\/Windsor Terrace\/Gowanus reporter Leslie Albrecht<\/a>:<\/p>\n

John Lipscomb loves boats, open water and the scent of fresh ocean air, but on a recent humid evening at low tide, he couldn’t wait to steer a bathtub-size aluminum vessel onto one of America’s most polluted waterways.<\/p>\n

“Shall we?” Lipscomb asked with a hint of glee as he fired up the motor and set a course for the Gowanus Canal, home of water so dirty that humans are warned not to touch it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lipscomb is the in-house boat captain for the clean water advocacy group Riverkeeper<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He pilots Riverkeeper’s patrol boat and monitors water quality on the Hudson River and its tributaries. Lipscomb visits the canal once a month to take water samples and hunt for signs of illegal dumping by polluters who sometimes end up getting sued by Riverkeeper and fined by state agencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read\u00a0the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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