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Ten Feet of Black Mayonnaise: A Day on the Gowanus Canal


Environment  (tags: extreme polluton, Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek, heavily polluted industrial waterway, watchdog group, River Keeper, patrolling the Gowanus, Superfund Sites )

Judy
- 340 days ago - ny.curbed.com
The scope of the Gowanus' pollution is somewhat difficult to grasp. The bottom of the canal, for instance, is coated with what is commonly described as "ten feet of black mayonnaise"--a gummy layer of pollutants too various to list that has grown to 10 ft



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