Around Brooklyn: Water main break floods Park Slope
Water main break floods Park Slope
A water main break flooded basements in a row of brownstones in park Slops with up to five feet of water on Tuesday morning. A pipe burst on St. John’s Place near Fifth Avenue around 10 a.m., and firefighters had to cordon off the street for several hours to pump out the water. Residents say the firefighters left the scene around 1 p.m., and the water to nearby homes was turned on again by 2 p.m. “I was in the basement to do laundry, and there was water,” homeowner David Kirschenbaum told the New York Post.
Gowanus turning basin or tar-ning basin?
Recent photos taken by Brad Vogel of the Gowanus Dredgers show a large amount of coal tar and combined sewer overflow at the Gowanus Canal’s 4th Street Turning Basin. The basin was the first portion of the canal to be cleaned and capped under the EPA’s Superfund program, as a pilot project. The pilot project was finished in late 2018, and it was the first time in more than 100 years that a part of the Gowanus was free from debris and coal-tar sediment, according to Pardon Me for Asking. The recent pollution flowed into the Turning Basin from the main portion of the canal, which is slated to be cleaned later this year.