What Cost Gowanus Canal Cleanup?

What Cost Gowanus Canal Cleanup?
NEW YORK - JUNE 02: Old tires sit underwater in the polluted Gowanus Canal on June 2, 2009 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Gowanus Canal is bounded by several Brooklyn communities including Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook. The canal, which was completed in 1869, has been polluted for decades, resulting in one of the nation's most extensively contaminated bodies of water. The EPA has proposed adding the Gowanus Canal to the Agency's Superfund National Priorities List (NPL), setting off a debate over its future, as some residents and politicians believe the stigma of a superfund will drive down real estate rates and scare off investors. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - JUNE 02: Old tires sit underwater in the polluted Gowanus Canal on June 2, 2009 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The Gowanus Canal is bounded by several Brooklyn communities including Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Red Hook. The canal, which was completed in 1869, has been polluted for decades, resulting in one of the nation's most extensively contaminated bodies of water. The EPA has proposed adding the Gowanus Canal to the Agency's Superfund National Priorities List (NPL), setting off a debate over its future, as some residents and politicians believe the stigma of a superfund will drive down real estate rates and scare off investors. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The smell of sewage isn’t the only thing hanging over the Gowanus Canal as the Environmental Protection Agency begins public review of its proposed cleanup plan for the Superfund site.

One critical question lingering in the air is what exactly the City of New York will have to pay for its role in the cleanup. Also unknown: what measures the city’s Department of Environmental Protection will take to curb the raw sewage that continues to pour into the murky waters.

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