You know, here we've got this area that 150 years of industrial pollution polluting the canal, the mud at the bottom, the water, the land around it. Then we see In Hurricane Sandy [we saw] just how vulnerable that whole area [around the Gowanus Canal] is to flooding. And it doesn't just flood when the hurricanes come, it floods now when it rains as well. So we really need a set of infrastructure investments with attention to resiliency. (08:54–08:59)
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Asserts that the area around the Gowanus Canal is highly vulnerable to flooding, as demonstrated by Hurricane Sandy.
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