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@Oliver Schick
A very interesting article about the Gowanus area in Brooklyn, which I'd never heard about. An 82-block development in a dangerously-polluted area where corners are being cut in the clean-up process? But of course.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/02/gowanus-canal-brooklyn-new-york-toxic-cleanup-epa
It reminds me of criticism levelled at the clean-up in the Lower Lea Valley for the London Olympics:
https://corporatewatch.org/the-real-environmental-impacts-of-holding-the-olympics-in-east-london/
No idea what kind of contamination is worse, low-level radioactive or coal tar, but it's probably just nasty in different ways.
As ever, consequences of work that proves to be inadequate will only be felt in a couple of decades.