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	Gowanus Canal. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Gowanus Canal, industrial canal, SE borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. city, SE N.Y.; 40°40'N 74°00'W. Heavily polluted, it runs S from Hamilton Ave.
		In the 17th cent., the Dutch found it to be a pristine tidal inlet bordered by rich saltmarsh from which foot-long oysters were supposedly taken; in 1774 the Colonial Assembly enacted a law to widen the creek, draining and filling adjacent marshes.
		The canal is sometimes referred to as “Lavender Lake” because of its floating chemicals and filth.
	www.bartleby.com /69/16/G03816.html (254 words)

	Gowanus Canal - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Connected to Gowanus Bay in Upper New York Harbor, the canal borders the neighborhoods of Red Hook and South Brooklyn on the west and Gowanus/Park Slope on the east.
		The opaqueness of the Gowanus water obstructs sunlight to one third of the six feet needed for aquatic plant growth.
		The existing method to control the pollution of the isolated Gowanus Canal was the installation of the Flushing Tunnel on June 21, 1911.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Gowanus_Canal (2208 words)

	Gowanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gowanus is a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA, situated roughly between Red Hook and Carroll Gardens on the west and Park Slope on the east.
		The north boundry of the neighborhood is Caroll street, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to the south and West, and the Gowanus Canal to the East.
		The neighborhood of Gowanus is not widely known, perhaps on account of many residents of Gowanus identifing themselves as residents of the larger areas that border it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gowanus (371 words)

	Gowanus Project: Component One (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Gowanus Canal was one of the largest industrial centers in the country during the early 1900s.
		Further perpetuating the environmental disaster, the canal was massively flooded during heavy rainfall and served as a depository for industrial dumping and runoff.
		The Gowanus Canal ecosystem is severely polluted with inorganic waste such as toxic metals, as well as organic waste such as sewage and oil.
	www.mediaworkshop.org /hses/gowanus/c1 (905 words)

	In the late nineteen century the Gowanus canal was a significant waterway for New York City's commerce
		As the canal returned to its former polluted and stagnant state, it also became a source of discomfort and concern for the residents in the surrounding community.
		The use of the canal by heavy chemical industries and the presence of both a metal and paint plant were detrimental factors that caused oil and grease floatables, pathogenic agents, toxicity to aquatic life and color, odor and turbidity problems.
		Because the canal had supported a wide spectrum of beneficial uses, the quality requirement of the water and its environment were necessarily complex.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /environ/projects/Gowanus.htm (1068 words)

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		Long before the Gowanus Canal was considered a Brownfield, it was a thriving salt-water marshland with meadows that teemed with fish and other wildlife surrounding its tidal inlet once called the "Gowanus Creek," that flowed into Gowanus Bay.
		And in the community's industrial section, along the Gowanus Canal, manufacturing businesses employing between five and fifty workers comprise one of the city's oldest industrial districts, located within a short distance of the Red Hook Waterfront, which was once a shipping hub for New York City.
		The Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation's mission is to concern itself with the catchment area in the county of Kings with particular emphasis within the area affected by the Gowanus Canal.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /environ/projects/Freda.htm (2519 words)

	City Activates Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In time, the expanded use and growth of the canal area, coupled with inadequate systems for sewage disposal and unlimited discharges of raw sewage directly into its waters, transformed the Canal, a man-made waterway with very limited tidal exchange to open waters, into a polluted, stagnant eyesore.
		The pump, which is powered by a 600 horsepower motor, brings Harbor water to the Canal at an average rate of 200 million gallons a day, with a maximum rate of 300 million gallons a day depending on tidal conditions.
		According to Commissioner Miele, "The reactivation of the Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel is yet another step in the City's efforts to improve the infrastructure of the area.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dep/html/press/99-28pr.html (634 words)

	GOWANUS CANAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The prominent feature of the Gowanus neighborhood is the Gowanus Canal, which effectively bisects a neighborhood that is primarily zoned for light to heavy manufacturing.
		The Canal was created in 1848 by widening the original Gowanus Creek into a mile and a half long commercial waterway to provide industrial access to the Gowanus Bay and, ultimately, to the Upper New York Bay and beyond.
		The Canal’s resurgence has enhanced the area’s profile and potential, and the Gowanus Canal CDC is pursuing a range of activities to harness that neighborhood potential.
	www.gowanus.org /gowanus.htm (475 words)

	Gowanus Canal - NYWiki
		The Gowanus Canal also known as the Gowanus Creek Canal is located in the Brooklyn, New York neighborhoods of South Brooklyn and Red Hook over the former Gowanus Creek.
		The Canal was created in 1848 by widening the original Gowanus Creek into a mile and a half long commercial waterway to provide industrial access to the Gowanus Bay and, ultimately, to the Upper New York Bay.
		The Gowanus Creek Channel is a federally maintained waterway between Gowanus Bay and the canal north of the Hamilton Avenue Bridge.
	www.nywiki.com /new-york-city/index.php/Gowanus_Canal (569 words)

	Gowanus Expressway (I-278)
		The viaduct was to connect the Gowanus Parkway with newer arteries such as the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and the Prospect Expressway.
		Further south, the newly christened "Gowanus Expressway" was extended from the western terminus of the Belt Parkway to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, despite vociferous protests by Bay Ridge residents.
		Replacing the Gowanus Expressway with a tunnel would be cheaper in the long run than rebuilding the crumbling elevated highway and would revive moribund neighborhoods in southwest Brooklyn, according to a study by a regional planning group.
	www.nycroads.com /roads/gowanus (3739 words)

	NEW YORK CITY DEP TO REACTIVATE THE GOWANUS CANAL FLUSHING TUNNEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the turn of the century, the Gowanus Canal was an active waterway crucial to the City's commerce, but it was heavily polluted by industrial dumping and sewage.
		Once that was done, the pump began bringing harbor water to the Canal at an average rate of 200 million gallons a day, with a maximum rate of 300 million gallons a day, depending on tidal conditions.
		The reactivation of the Gowanus Canal Flushing Tunnel is yet another step in the City's efforts to improve the infrastructure of the area.
	www.nyc.gov /html/dep/html/news/gowanus.html (560 words)

	CNN - Canal in heart of Brooklyn undergoing lifesaving renovation - August 30, 1999
		Gowanus Canal once was one of the busiest industrial waterways in the country
		Gowanus Canal was one of the country's busiest industrial waterways a century ago.
		Gowanus soon became a cesspool of raw sewage, a dump for garbage and other trash.
	www.cnn.com /US/9908/30/new.york.canal (561 words)

	Idle Words
		There are dramatic photographs of one of the first diving expeditions into the canal, which start with a diver wearing an all-white bunny suit and end with him emerging completely fl, as from a pool of ink.
		At several places on the canal, we had to pass under quite low bridges of perforated metal, and the shadows these cast onto the water formed long, three-dimensional fingers of light beneath the surface, looking like a forest under the green water.
		The Gowanus and other urban canals are so notorious for their filth that it takes an effort of imagination to picture them restored to something approaching nature.
	www.idlewords.com /2005/09/a_voyage_down_the_gowanus.htm (2249 words)

	Welcome to The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club on the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn NY
		Foote is a charter member of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club, a group of 12 paddling enthusiasts who regularly explore this legendarily fetid stretch of water.
		High tide and low is as good a metaphor as any for the fortunes of the Gowanus, which have risen, fallen and risen again since the Dutch settled this former creek in the 1600s, naming it for chief Gowanee of the Canarsee tribe.
		The canal was built before the Civil War; the resulting boom of printing plants, oil-storage facilities and dye works produced so much pollution that the waterway was nicknamed Lavender Lake.
	www.waterfrontmuseum.org /dredgers/timeout.htm (743 words)

	Waterwire.net
		For nearly 150 years the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY was the repository of toxic sludge, raw sewage, and commercial garbage.
		Although the Gowanus may never evolve into the Venice of Brooklyn that some Gowanus activists envision, this former garbage dump of heavy industry is showing signs of life, and has already become host to migratory birds, schools of fish, oyster beds, and even a canoe club.
		The canal became the home to a range of heavy industry including gas works, coal yards, cement makers, soap makers, tanneries, paint and ink factories, all of which used the canal as a dumping ground for industrial waste.
	www.waterwire.net /Resources/archives.cfm?ContID=1355 (1601 words)

	Wired New York Forum - The Gowanus Canal
		Ah, the Gowanus, that fetid Brooklyn canal synonymous with contamination and death.
		Shipley, who has been filling his van with jars of muck from various spots in the canal, said that he already had some idea of what is lurking in the water, including creosote, a wood preservative probably used on retaining walls that line the canal, and viruses from all the sewage.
		The view of the Gowanus Canal and Ninth Street Bridge from the Hamilton Avenue Bridge.
	www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3037 (1670 words)

	Gowanus Artists Studio Tour 2005
		The Gowanus Artists Studio Tour began in 1997 as a way for fifteen artists to introduce their work to the neighborhoods surrounding the Gowanus Canal.
		Today, the Gowanus Artists, an equal opportunity organization, includes professional, visual artists with studios in Brooklyn near the Gowanus Canal, in an area bounded by 5th Avenue, Baltic Street, Smith Street, and 10th Street.
		In 1911, a brick-lined tunnel was built connecting the head of the Canal at Butler Street east to the relatively clean water from the Buttermilk Channel.
	www.gowanusartists.com /history.html (523 words)

	GOWANUS PLAYGROUND - Historical Sign
		The word ¡§Gowanus¡¨ comes from the name of a Native American, Gowane, who was either a member of the Mohawks, or a sachem, or chief, of the Canarsee tribe.
		However, waste from the surrounding industries polluted the canal, leading the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1893 to call it an ¡§open cesspool.¡¨ Because the force of tides was insufficient to empty the canal¡¦s northern polluted end, a flushing tunnel powered by a giant propeller leading to Buttermilk Channel was constructed.
		Aside from the canal, Gowanus contains several transportation landmarks, including the tallest subway viaduct in New York City (the F line at Smith and 9th streets, which extends 87.5 feet above the canal), and the Carrol Street Rail Bridge (1889), one of only a few retractile bridges left in the United States.
	www.nycgovparks.org /sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=7834 (497 words)

	ORTGEIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I remember a time about 9 yrs ago when the words "Gowanus Canal" would strike fear in to the heart of all shopping carts, kittens and dead bodies.
		Well who knew they would dredge it repair the tunnel and turbines that move the water and now people are interested in using the canal as a recreational area.
		The Gowanus Dredgers are a volunteer organization who provide tours and education about the canal.
	ortgeist.com /2004/10/gowanus-canal.html (113 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Drawbridge Operation Regulations: Gowanus Canal, New York
		The Hamilton Avenue Bridge, mile 1.2, also across Gowanus Canal was not included in the roving drawtender plan because the frequency of bridge openings were considerably higher than the other bridges on this waterway.
		The commercial vessel movements on Gowanus Canal are scheduled in advance by the commercial operators.
		The commercial vessel transits on Gowanus Canal are scheduled in advance by the commercial operators.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2000/August/Day-01/i19396.htm (1926 words)

	neon
		The Gowanus Canal section of Brooklyn has long been a fascinating neighborhood, caught as it is between affluent Park Slope and Cobble Hill on one side, and tough-as-nails Red Hook on the other.
		For decades, the Gowanus Canal itself was a fetid waterway populated by four-eyed fish and other biological unspeakables.
		Advertisers considered both the IND subway and the Gowanus Expressway as prime territory to imprint their wares on the engrams of commuters making their way into Manhattan from Bay Ridge, Flatbush, Gravesend and all points of Kings County.
	www.forgotten-ny.com /SIGNS/neonbillboard/neon.html (621 words)

	Place in History \| Brooklyn NY
		In 1998, Place in History launched a two-year, four-part initiative to explore the history and future of the Gowanus Canal, an industrial waterway in the heart of central Brooklyn, and the neighborhoods that surround it.
		The installation and opening ceremonies celebrated the reopening of the Gowanus Canal Pumping Station, a water-flushing facility that now works to clean the canal, after 37 years of inactivity.
		As a follow-up to the Gowanus Canal Viewing Boxes installation, Place in History co-director Paul Parkhill and environmental educator Abu Bakr Moulta Ali developed a year-long high school educational program exploring the canal's past, present and future development.
	www.placeinhistory.org /Projects/Gowanus/GowanusMain.htm (368 words)

	Brooklyn Borough President
		Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal is famous to some, infamous to others, and for much of its long history has been an enigma buried deep in the heart of the gritty city.
		The Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation (GCCDC) is the principal sponsor of the Conference, with the cosponsorship of the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center (AREAC) at Brooklyn College, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, and is funded in part by a grant from Consolidated Edison.
		The canal is attracting significant public investment towards its cleanup and environmental improvement, and the future beacons.
	www.brooklyn-usa.org /Press/2004/may26.htm (516 words)

	Gritty waterway: a model for renewal? \| csmonitor.com
		Brooklyn residents, in a neighborhood crusade, strive to purge a canal of sewage and its reputation as Mafia dumping ground.
		The Gowanus Canal was once a creek, inhabited by the Canarsie Indians who centered their lives on its teeming wildlife.
		Now the canal is really unbearable, he says, only after a big rainfall, when there is runoff from the sewage.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0627/p03s01-usgn.htm (844 words)

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