Gowanus Canal

                                                        by Nayeli campos 

              The Beginning of it All

The only thing you can see is that the water was not color you will think it will be. It was like black but it also had some green in it too. If you want to know where this is at it the Gowanus Canal. The “coal tar”(black mayonnaise) was the things that made the water look like that this have been going on in the late 1800s something. The Gowanus Canal is been polluted because of “coal tar”(black mayonnaise). The smell is so bad all you will smell is gas and bad water.

                    The History

“Coal tar is a thick black liquid produced by the destructive distillation of bituminous coal” (Wikipedia). Coal tar is affected a lot of people like the community of the Gowanus canal coal tar come in the late 1800s there is a lot of coal tar like hundreds of thou. Don't you wonder how coal tar got into the water “for decades, giant iron tanks towers over the neighborhood holding the gas, while the leftover coal tar was rehung dumped in the canal.”(swimmer braves stinky new York city canal water on earth day)

   Problem

Coal tar is a problem that matters because it makes the community smell bad having coal tar in the Canal is affected the Gowanus that the community were the Canal is at and the people and community are impacted by this problem because it makes the community have a bad name and how people see the community now. One eyewitness was Yeiry and she said that ¨the Gowanus canal is bad for the community because it affected us like people and it affected plant and animals¨. For example do you want to know how bad the Gowanus is that a dolphin die in the water.

     What do We do Now

According to Christine Petro they are trying to take out all the coal tar from the canal and then they are going to make a green park. It going to solve the problem by taking out the coal tar because it making it clean and less polluted and they are going to fix the flushing tunnel and the park is going to fix it by when it rains the plants can drink the water for it not to go in the canal. According to Gabriel Rivera he think that they should put a green park because it going to help the water get clean. He think it will help because the community because then people will go see the water and see how clean it is.