EPA is hosting aPublic Information Meeting About the Gowanus Canal

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites you to attend a public information meeting to discuss community involvment tools available for the Gowanus Canal site.

Thursday, January 21, 2010
from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
in the auditorium of P.S. 32
317 Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, NY

Topics covered will include the formation of a Community Advisory Group (CAG), Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) and Technical Assistance Services for Communiities (TASC). This meeting will include a formal presentation followed by a question and answer period.

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Underwater Photo Show Benefitting The GCC

Board member Ted Papoulas is currently exhibiting his underwater photography, some in stereoscopic 3D, at Park Slope's Picada Y Vino wine shop during December and January. Proceeds from all art sales will be donated to Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal Conservancy. Picada Y Vino has graciously agreed to donate 10% of the sales price of two specified wines, one red and one white, to the Conservancy during the entire run of the show.

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EPA Meeting

The EPA hosted a public information meeting to update the community on upcoming activities in the Gowanus Canal on Thurs. Dec. 3, 2009.  A summary of the meeting to come soon.

FALL BEER TASTING!

Thanks to all who joined us at the Conservancy's Second Annual Fall Beer Tasting!  Thanks especially to the generosity of Jeff Gorlechen and Sixpoint Craft Ales, Josh Sharkey and Park Slope’s Bark, Emphasis Design, and City Councilmen-elect Steve Levin and Brad Lander.

Sponge Park newsEPA Funding for Sponge Park signed into law

Exciting news from Washington... Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez successfully secured a $300,000 appropriation for the project as part of the FY 2010 Interior and Environment Appropriations bill.  (This is in addition to $638,000 in funds awarded towards the project in June from City Council Member David Yassky which will be administered by the NYC Parks Department.) The Federal funding will be allocated through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) STAG Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Project.  

Volunteer Program:Clean & Green

This monthly volunteer program (April – October) organizes community members to pick up trash and debris, and to weed and plant in the debris-filled street ends along the Gowanus Canal.  The program is offered in collaboration with the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation, the GreenStreets program, and the NYC Department of Sanitation.  Co-chairs of this program are Conservancy Board members Brett Wallace (LEED AP, Certified Arborist, Landscape Designer) and Katie Osborn. If you are interested, please email us to register.

Environmental Priorities Summit

On Feb. 18, 2009, at P.S. 32 in Carroll Gardens, the Gowanus Canal Conservancy brought together more than 40 representatives from community groups, local businesses, elected officials, government agencies and from the different neighborhoods of the “Gowanus Basin,” to discuss their environmental priorities at the Gowanus Basin Environmental Priorities Summit. Conservancy chairman Andy Simons and executive director Bob Zuckerman welcomed the audience by reading the list of Gowanus Basin community groups represented, including the Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour (A.G.A.S.T.), Boerum Hill Association, Carroll Gardens Neighborhood Association, Center for the Urban Environment, Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus (FROGG), Friends of Douglass/Greene Park, Gowanus Canal CDC, Gowanus Dredgers, NY/NJ Baykeepers, Park Slope Civic Council, Park Slope Neighbors, and Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Development Corp.

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Art ExhibitGowanus: A Sense of Place

The Gowanus Canal Conservancy organized an art show and sale running from Dec. 5 to Dec. 22, 2008, comprised of representational views of streetscapes and landscapes of Gowanus and surrounding neighborhoods.
 
The objectives of the show and sale were to raise funds for the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, highlight the Gowanus as the center of northwest Brooklyn neighborhoods, generate interest in the preservation of the Gowanus landscape, and foster opportunities for local artists.

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