Clean-water advocate plans Earth Day swim at Gowanus Canal Superfund site
A clean-water advocate will make an Earth Day swim in Brooklyn’s polluted Gowanus Canal, a federal Superfund site.
Christopher Swain is calling for an accelerated cleanup of the site in Brooklyn.
Swain will be wrapped in a yellow drysuit and other protective gear during his swim Wednesday.
The 19th-century canal was once a major transportation route. It’s now so polluted with industrial and sewer discharges that it must, by law, be cleaned up.