39th District Council member Bill de Blasio, who is running for New York City Public Advocate, opposes Superfund status for the Gowanus Canal,
"We're being sold a bill of goods," he told the New York Daily News. "There isn't necessarily
money attached. … How can you call it Superfund if there's no fund?"
He also supports the Toll Brothers Development that has divided the neighborhood.
"We, locally, have gotten our act together. The city's doing the right
stuff. … The Toll site will get cleaned up," de Blasio said, charging
the feds would just "get in the way."
The Toll Brothers have said they will pull out of the site if it is designated a Superfund site. They want to build luxury townhouses, condos and a park and have promised to clean up the canal.
The question that is dividing the community now: Who do you trust to thoroughly clean a highly toxic canal that is rich in contaminated sediments? The federal government or a private developer (with the support of the city)?
As I understand it, the Superfund will not oversee or pay for clean up of the contaminated ground around the Gowanus and will not begin clean up until that has been completed.
Who cleans that? Questions. Questions.
The innocent property and small business owners will pay most of the bill!!!
THE SUPERFUND MUST BE STOPPED!!!
This neighborhood is brainwashed into thinking the Superfund is some miracle program coming in to help us, But the truth is it’s the total opposite,everything this neighborhood has accomplished and overcame the last 15-20 years will be for nothing. We will forever be known as a Superfund sites,even after it is cleaned.
Please people i beg you, do some research on past superfund projects before you bring this storm to our neighborhood.