POLLUTION IN THE CANAL

By Jose Peralta

When I first saw the Canal  all i could see was the green water,of course  the water was contaminated of all sorts of nasty things people had dumped in there but i'm pretty sure that the factories had a lot to do with the canal being contaminated. The factories dumped left over ink and a lot of metal pieces they did not use any more. This is happening in Brooklyn  N.Y. This is happening because people see that is already nasty so they probably think that one more piece of trash won't do more fifer ABC but it's not true, every time we dump a candy wrapper we say that we don't care about the canal.

WHAT POLLUTES THE GOWANUS CANAL?

There  use to be a lot of transportation on the canal. As I said before the factories are one of the reasons why the canal is polluted, the other reason is the water from a storm. That water washes all the trash and other nasty stuff that is just laying in the streets. Where those that trash go to ? That trash goes to the canal sometimes it doesn't even go through the sewers, it goes straight into the canal. The canal is also infected by lead and gasoline. Some consequences that the canal could bring to people is that the smell of the canal could give you cancer. Manufactured gas plants, cement factories, oil refineries, tanneries, and chemical plants are one of the reasons why the canal is contaminated (river keeper). After 150 years the canal has become heavily contaminated with PCB, heavy metals, pesticides, volatile organic compounds, sewage solids from combined sewer overflows, and poly cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs), (river keepers)

WHY IS IT IMPORTANT

Like I said, that nasty smell could give  you cancers and the people who mostly get affected by it are the people who pass by the canal every day. If we don't try to fix it now and just leave it like  that later on it would be even nastier. It would be a lot harder to clean by that time. And worst of all if we don't do something about it right now we are putting people's life in risk because of that dangerous smell that gives cancer.

   

 CALL TO ACTION

We could fix this by trying to clean it now. Or maybe not actually clean it but at least find a way to to stop dumping trash. This shouldn't have to wait, we could try to fix this now so that in the future it would be easier and it won't be that bad as it is right now.

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