On March 2, 2010, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) announced that it has officially placed the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York on its Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) of the country's most hazardous waste sites.  In compliance with this, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New York District (USACE) has ceased the bay restoration study and turned over all documents to the US EPA.

For more information on the Gowanus Canal, go to: http://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/gowanus/.

For a Google Earth aerial view of the Gowanus Canal: http://www.epa.gov/region2/kml/gowanus_creek_and_gowanus_canal.kmz (Please note that you must have Google Earth installed on your computer to view the map. To download Google Earth, visit http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html)

Follow EPA Region 2 on Twitter at http://twitter.com/eparegion2  and visit the Gowanus Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=195975002808 

http://www.epa.gov/region02/superfund/npl/gowanus/

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