tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4810483957175720940.post6647734519261807442..comments2023-08-03T04:18:15.359-04:00Comments on Found in Brooklyn: Gowanus? Love Canal? NO! It's the Clap Canal!Lisannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03249500003559750141noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4810483957175720940.post-2960029477693572422008-09-29T13:57:00.000-04:002008-09-29T13:57:00.000-04:00The computer modeling that Toll has used to justif...The computer modeling that Toll has used to justify a net benefit towards a cleaner canal, despite their additional 950 or so toilets, is as reliable as the models used by all those banking/wall street firms to justify and hide their debts. Common sense is as applicable here as it is in Wall Street. We can’t allow these corporations to continue to hide behind their obscuring models any longer. Let’s not forget that the Gowanus CSO models are bases upon rain data from the year 1988—37 inches of annual rainfall.<BR/><BR/>The canal is in such a pathetic state because of all the raw sewage spills it takes. Adding a substantial amount of additional raw sewage into the existing combined sewer system cannot possibly “cleanup” this problem, regardless of how well they plan to manage the rainwater that falls on their site (which incidentally, sits downhill from the public street storm drains).<BR/><BR/>But what is most appalling is that this project is being consideration separate from all the other projects in the works; projects that also hope to dump their toilets into the same sewer line. Public Place site may get upwards of 1400 new toilets, the Bayside site could have 1000 new toilets, and who knows how many more could go between those sites. <BR/><BR/>Even if every one of these new toilets was a stand-alone composting toilet, that wouldn’t solve the current problems of raw sewage flow from the existing structures. <BR/><BR/>So when it comes to the vote: just how could anyone acting as a public servant, on any level here, grant approval to this project without seeing a study of the cumulative infrastructure impact that will come to the area following this spot-zoning process?<BR/><BR/>FROGGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4810483957175720940.post-3668537761664369962008-09-27T06:27:00.000-04:002008-09-27T06:27:00.000-04:00Roy Sloane had it right. It is the government's re...Roy Sloane had it right. It is the government's responsibility to clean up the canal. If we leave it to individual private developers there will never be accountability nor will there be a permanent and complete solution. Does Bill De Blasio want the blood of the children and elderly cancer victims on his hands when housing is built down there? Or will he be off to his next job? Community Board, LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY for god sakes. Deny these zoning changes until a true solution to the sewer overflow, the heavy metals in the soil and the leeching into and out of the canal is fixed. Toll Brothers and the unions will get what they want, let's get what we need first....a solution to the toxicity of this canal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com