Gowanus Canal
Proper noun
Meaning
Gowanus Canal
a canal in Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Examples
Cleaning Our Waterways: The long-awaited cleanse of the toxic Gowanus Canal got stuck in the muck yet again last month when workers hit a roadblock during one of the simplest parts of the cleanup, according to the man in charge of it.
Cleaning Our Waterways: The feds cast doubt on the city’s plan to clean the Gowanus Canal — but admit that the Superfund plan would not fix the biggest problem: the hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage that end up in the canal whenever it rains.
Cleaning Our Waterways: The city says it will finally figure out just how much noxious-smelling sewage is pouring into the Gowanus Canal.
Cleaning Our Waterways: The feds may force the city to bury a giant holding tank for raw sewage and runoff beneath Thomas Green Playground and Douglass-Degraw Pool as part of the planned half-billion dollar cleanup of the Gowanus Canal.
She was “Buffy” to her friends and “Mami Giga” to her family, but late Gowanus Canal Community Development Organization “heart and soul” Lydia Buffington will live on as a neighborhood icon in her beloved Carroll Gardens.
The first large, mixed-income housing project on the banks of the polluted Gowanus Canal scored a key first victory last Thursday night in the lengthy public approval process for the controversial development.