Historical Treasures Found During Gowanus Canal Cleanup

A massive project is underway to clean up one of the countries most polluted waterways: the Gowanus Canal, which flows through Brooklyn. CBS2's Jenna Deangelis reports.

[@aerofpv2109]

I remember as a child in the late 70's crossing that canal on the way to Redhook swimming pool and that canal would reek of eggs. What an awful unbearable smell. To think kids swam in it back in the days.

[@back2the80s]

Nasty sulfur odor I guess

[@ocsrc]

If you REALLY want to see something you need to be there when it rains and see the CSOs start to flow. The smell and the stuff you see come out is just incredible.

[@reillymoore3257]

Decades to clean up - meanwhile, people are living right above it. 💀

[@lephtovermeet]

Only $800k for a 600 sqft condo.

[@curtislowe4577]

Federal money to create waterfront property. I don't want my tax dollars spent to make upscale development possible. Do exactly what was done with other sections of abandoned canals in New York: fill it in and turn it into a wide street.

[@arturovaldes546]

Fill it with NYC garbage , then put a thin layer of soil and some grass seeds. Call it it the Meadowlands. That what we did in Jersey.

[@johndegraw1220]

That WW2 rescue boat didn't turn up from dreadging... it's always been there at water level or barely just below at low tide.. it's been there for decades.

[@_mitcheljesus]

I’m still trying to figure out how anyone thought it was acceptable to dump toxic waste into water...

[@rickyparrilla2426]

Exactly. Thank all those chemical companies, slaughter houses, sewage companies that had factories all along the canal. They don't get into detail in this video just how toxic that water really is. I read a comment of a man who worked on tugboats in the nyc waters. He said if anyone fell into that canal. They wouldn't be rushing to take you out because they will do more harm to whomever was on the boat. That's how seriously dangerous that water is. It's insane what those businesses got away with that were dumping in those waters. It's so sad!

[@K4R3N]

Natalie, looking decent!

[@nyctenthusiast3507]

Remember that dolphin?

[@42luke93]

NYCT Enthusiast There was a dolphin in there? Poor thing. I came here because of smith 9th street in the subway.

[@bluegillphil1427]

lots of kids swam there in the 1960s

[@rickyparrilla2426]

No not in the 60s. Way before that. Try the 1700s. In the 60s was one of the decades the canal was at its worst.

[@marcwire9332]

I wonder how many guns they found?????

[@back2the80s]

Housing around that nasty canal? Oh come on. Even after cleanup I wouldn’t live there

[@exitar1]

The history is people just thought they should dump anything and everything in the canal...

[@henryblicharz5556]

Finally something good out of NYC !

[@garthmarchant8437]

ok

[@Netcentric-fk6ek]

they want to build more apts.

[@rickyparrilla2426]

What's really crazy is that canal is attached to Manhattan harbor, the east river and the hudson river. So all that deadly water has spread.

[@johnsilva9139]

And New York harbor connected to Atlantic Ocean so I guess it spread around the world. Of course there are many polluted rivers and bays that empty into oceans. The fish need to organize and maybe fight back somehow.

[@funrun07haan50]

Even There bad english😂

[@saulchapnick1566]

Any three eyed fish?

[@DisDude-qv3vl]

That’s. A. Man or woman

[@rickyparrilla2426]

It's Pat! LMFAO 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@ileenrandle3558]

SLAVES TOO

[@DSAK55]

No Jimmy Hoffa ?

[@saulchapnick1566]

He’s at the meadowlands.