Last Day To Comment On Gowanus Canal Superfund Listing

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Just a reminder, dear Reader. Today is the last day to submit your testimony to the EPA regarding the listing of the Gowanus Canal as as Superfund site.
If you have not done so yet, I urge you to do so. Carroll Gardener JL did. Below is his testimony.

From: JL
Sent: Tue 7/7/2009 10:53 AM
To: superfund.docket@epa.gov
Subject: Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, NY, Docket No. EPA-HQ-SFUND-2009-0063

Dear Sirs-

As an architect, a LEED Accredited Professional, and a 22-year resident of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, I write to urge you to approve EPA Superfunding for the environmental clean-up of our nearby polluted Gowanus Canal. The scale and historic nature of this environmental clean-up, and the protection of our neighboring Brooklyn residential communities throughout the clean-up period and beyond, mandate that this endeavor be accomplished under the skilled and watchful eyes of the federal EPA. No other agency or alternate plan details a better understanding of the remediation process that is required, or of the protection of the adjacent neighborhoods that is demanded. There is only one opportunity afforded to accomplish this clean-up correctly, with the focus and detail necessary for a safe and proper job, and it would be remiss of our EPA to let the task --and the health and safety of tens of thousands of nearby Brooklyn residents-- fall into less effective hands. The ONLY agency with the experience, manpower and judgement, unencumbered by local political in-fighting, to get this job done properly is the EPA. When you weigh this matter for decision, please consider the many families and communities that presently co-exist within close proximity to the Gowanus Canal, and the dramatic increase to these numbers that are planned for new residential developments along its banks. We, in Carroll Gardens, are amongst them, and we are worried for our futures, for our community's future, should this environmental clean-up fail to properly remediate the myriad of toxins that have leached into the surrounding land. Help us to ensure Carroll Gardens' future. Approve Superfund status for the Gowanus Canal.

Sincerest thanks

-JL

Please, go directly to the EPA Website and submit your comments: http://www.epa.gov/region2/superfund/npl/gowanus/

You can also email your testimony to the EPA: superfund.docket@epa.gov



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