9/16/2010: Storm floods Gowanus Canal with Raw Sewage

[kye222]

wooooooooooo cso's.........



[WetPooooopie]

my area

[ChiCityBreeze]

terrible dude



[graffin66]

cool

[desertcafe]

Ewwwwmans are a blight

[vicj0r]

Gee NY fix ur shit. It's not like you aint go the money. This is just third world nasty.

[kittyboom]

I've lived just one block up from the canal, and I've always known it to be polluted, but the image you captured cleared up any questions I had as to why it stinks so much! Thanks.

[matthew2002oxr]

Fran9860 how dare you disrespect my grandmother

[przkrazymindz]

I live a block away from where this is filmed, 25 years to be exact and even as a little kid it has always been stinky specially after rain nothing new to me but hilarious when he says I gotta go out there n smell it, n when he does he on the verge of throwing up lol hilarious

[misterroboto1]

Gowanus... what's a very appropriate name.

[ProfessorJ77]

Looks like this is by Douglas St. I used to live on 1st and Bond for years and I have never seen the plant pump out brown water from the Flushing Tunnel.

[JBlongz]

I work there!

[mcullinane247]

I love NY... what a great vacation!

[MishuTaste]

Nice day for a boat ride.

[smp156]

you might like my videos entitles Lovely New York City, and Lovely New York City Part 2

both take place around carroll gardens

[bumbleinthenight]

i love the gowanus canal, on days im lonely i sit beside it. probably not a good idea though...

[lostlion1]

this is probably a more usual occurrence than any of us realize. That was a dramatic storm with lots of rain at one time, but anytime we get a lot of rain raw sewage goes into our waterways

[oneiroi]

@lostlion1 I am fairly certain that it was also designed to handle sewer overflow. So it's kinda just doing it's job.

[Monique63090]

@oneiroi but the canal was also once a natural wetland/estuary. We're polluting it and creating a health hazard for both us and whatever life may still be in the waterway. I wouldn't call that doing a job.

[rypatvt]

@oneiroi It was never designed to handle sewer overflow, it was built as a commercial and industrial transportation link to allow tankers and barges to travel from the harbor to Gowanus. Like any other waterway in NYC, it has several CSO's along its banks... it just happens to be a very narrow waterway that concentrates the sewage when extreme rain events occur. The sewage doesn't have a chance to disperse like it would in the rivers, so the canal becomes inundated with it for several days after

[leonel1982]

So much poo...

[Mondafied]

I'd still drink it.

[cr006f]

who the heck did the crappy subtitle work?! That sucks about the Gowanus....

[mchampag]

I wish I could say it's a metaphor, but it's really happening.

[malcolmauchincloss]

Doody!



[DoktorStrangelove]

That is one seriously gruesome body of water.

[charlietomb585]

man the gowanus canal is fucked up

[1PartAlize]

smells like tony king's breath at late night

[iced327]

love the totally nonchalant narration.

[landbridge]

There goes 10 years of cleaning down the drain.

[mattlindbloom]

GROSS

[dasbooof]

sweet chocolate covered jesus!

[amcaesar]

Jesus, this is horrifying.

[mm1mm1]

I've lived in Gowanus for 30 years and this is the filthiest I've ever seen it - raw sewage. I avert my eyes every time I cross the Union St. Bridge.