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Public Gets First Look At EPA's $500 Million Gowanus Canal Cleanup Plan

The $500 Million Plan To Clean The Gowanus
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FILE - This file photo of March 2, 2010 shows the Gowanus Canal, which was added to the Superfund National Priorities List in 2010 for being heavily contaminated with PCBs, heavy metals, volatile organics and coal tar wastes. New York, New Jersey and EPA officials say toxic sites are OK after Superstorm Sandy, but The Associated Press has found that few actual tests have been done. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

CARROLL GARDENS — The expensive and lengthy cleanup of the Gowanus Canal will rid the waterway of dangerous contaminants, but it won't make it clean enough for fishing.

That was one of the takeaways at the EPA's first public presentation of its proposal to clean the Superfund site, which is expected to cost roughly $500 million and be finished around 2022.

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