Greenpoint’s Newest Superfund Site Is Very Residential

Graphic: Marcus Peabody The oil refineries along Newtown Creek in Greenpoint have been closed for decades, but after more than a century of industrial activity along Brooklyn’s northern edge, a thick layer of toxic “black mayonnaise” 15 feet deep sits at the bottom of the waterway.

The EPA will be in charge of cleaning up the site and trying to get the now-closed businesses responsible for the plume to pay for it. But unlike a waterway that can be dredged, such as the Gowanus Canal, the polluted soil and groundwater can’t just be scooped up and hauled away. “You can clean up most of it; you can’t clean up all of it,” said Scott Yanuck, a geologist and the owner of Laurel Environmental Consultants, a remediation company on Long Island.

Christine Facella has this system in her Beadel Street home, where the venting pipe runs up from the basement through an interior shaft that also houses the plumbing. The only signs of it are a little monitor in her bathroom and the slight whirring sound of the fan that can be heard in the upstairs rental unit. She bought the house in 2009, and shortly thereafter DEC came by to take air samples and installed the mitigation system.

There’s no timeline yet for finishing the work, but unlike other Superfund sites, the EPA already knows a lot about the site thanks to DEC’s work, and that means it can probably move faster. “We’re not starting from square one,” said Willis Elkins, the executive director of the Newtown Creek Alliance, which has worked to inform locals about the pollution and pushed for the Superfund designation.

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