Progress Updates and Look Aheads

Please scroll below to view the Gowanus Canal Superfund Project Team’s regular progress
updates. Also available on this page are past updates and special notices. For additional
information, please use the following links:

Cultural Resource Updates

Environmental Monitoring Data Updates

Progress Update: Week of February 8, 2021

During the week of February 8, the project team continued dredging activities along the canal, north of Union Street. (Click to read)

Progress Update: Week of February 1, 2021

During the week of February 1, the project team resumed dredging activities along the canal. Dredging began for the section of the canal north of the Union Street Bridge. (Click to read)

Progress Update: Week of January 25, 2021

On the morning of January 25 the project team was made aware by the remedial contractor that a barge moored in the Bay Ridge Flats had taken on water and became submerged. At the time, the barge was planned for transport to the material processing facility in New Jersey. (Click to read)