Gowanus Canal Achieves Federal Super Fund Status - Water Filtration?

In March of 2008, I went in to Brooklyn and went down to Morgan Avenue and walked along the old railroad tracks towards Queens until I came to the railroad bridge which went over the Newtown Creek. Here is the story: www.grimvale.blogspot.com/2008/03/oughtta-be-law-newtown-creek-travesty.html

The story shows how dirty the Newtown Creek is the level of pollution is amazing but the City of New York and the EPA at the local and federal level have devised a cleanup plan, which although it moves slowly, it still moves. The Gowanus Canal on the other hand, has achieved federal Super Fund status - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal, where the Newtown Creek did not but they are/were both, arguably, two of the most polluted waterways in New York City.

Although the plan is not to bring back the Gowanus Canal to the level where people can drink from it but the goal is to make it livable for wildlife who nest there and for wayward marine life, who come into the canal from the Verrazano Narrows. The pollutin of the Gowanus Canal did not just occur - this has been going on for nearly a generation, where businesses, who have since come and gone, used to dump their wastes directly into the canal. This waste has seeped into the sediment of the canal, which will most likely have to be dredged and carted away to some remote landfill.

The long term project would be to install some sort of water filtration or waste water treatment facility or system but this may be costly because of the equipment needed for this, such as the high voltage power supplies or generators needed for these waste water treatment systems but the Army Corp of Engineers and the scientists at the DEP will come up with a lasting solution.

Here is a photo of the Newtown Creek, taken while standing on the railroad bridge:






Here is another photo, taken further upstream on Newtown Creek:



If you notice, you see that there is a containment boom in the right of this photo. Now, I also went down to the Gowanus Canal and took some photos of the canal.







Here below is one:















Here is another and please note the green fuel tanks in the photo:













I noticed the fuel tanks and I knew I had seen this company before and I reviewed the photos which I took of the Newtown Creek and I found this:








As you can see, the same company, that requires a containment boom to be deployed just below one of its fuel tanks in the Newtown Creek, also has a facility on the shoreline of the Gowanus Canal. Water filtration and waste water treament indeed.