Saturday, November 3rd 2007

Where All the Lights Are Bright

author: jack : New York, NY

Newtown Creek: Dirty Water

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

Fall in Toronto

author: Elicar : Toronto, ON

Newtown Creek: Dirty Water

author: CartLegger : Brooklyn, NY

NYC encompasses many superlatives. It’s a sad addition to the list to add it's being possibly the "dirtiest water in North America". The Newtown creek was until the early 19th century more an agricultural highway, bringing fresh produce in from Bushwick's pastures and fields. Since industries first came to its shores in the early 19th century, two centuries of runoff, effluent, and spills have blended together to create a complex chemical cocktail--ncluding sulfiric acid, mercury, lead, and pcb's--with a very long history. Perhaps the worst of these contaminations was the estimated 30 million gallons of oil that leaked out of Exxon...