Alert reader Elizabeth Barry wrote:
The Flushing Tunnel flushes water between New York Harbor and the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, to help reduce stagnation in the heavily polluted canal. It was created in 1911 using a steam-driven propeller to drive the water; it broke in the 1960s, and was repaired finally in 1999. The city offers a press release from 1999 telling about the canal:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/press_releases/99-28pr.shtml
Below is a very basic map of the tunnel, taken from gothamist, which in turn apparently got it from the DEP:
The Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club has an excellent history of the canal and neighborhood:
http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org/dredger/history.html
Other links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus_Canal
http://www.brooklyncb6.org/neighborhoods/?a=detail&content_id=58
http://gothamist.com/2007/04/09/gowanus_flushin.php
http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/press_releases/05-07pr.shtml
A nice map showing the location of the pumping station at the head of the canal:
http://www.communitywalk.com/view/172018#00046gIi
I've observed that the tube and push has been improved in the last 10 decades or so, with some operate done by Hydroqual. Its direction under BK is not self-evident - I'd like to uncover out where the intake is from the Eastern Stream, and the course it requires.....
Posted by: freezing equipment | December 07, 2011 at 09:54 AM