It's Eau de Gowanus delivered to your doorstep. Dump trucks will soon be hauling ancient toxic sludge dredged from the depths of the Gowanus through neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Staten Island - as critics worry the caravan may take the canal's infamous stink on tour. More than 60 Department of Environment Protection trucks will be moving contaminated soil from canal dig sites through the city each day, with only tarps separating the pungent debris from the public, according to department officials.
They have a tarp over [the trucks] - a loose tarp - meanwhile they're full of all this toxic material. What the neighbors have been dealing with for the past eight-to-nine months on Nevins and Sackett [Streets] the entire neighborhood of Gowanus, Carroll Gardens, Bay Ridge, Staten Island - they're gonna be exposed to this as well.
My concern is the trucks are going to ... turn a corner, and drop a couple of pebbles - 65 times a day, that's an awful lot of pebbles.
DEP rep Kevin Clarke noted that the agency 'can consider' spraying a mineral-based membrane on more heavily contaminated material traveling on the dump trucks, but would only deploy it if it's deemed necessary.
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