Watch: A canal overflows (with sewage) in Brooklyn
A gushing river of sewage recently overwhelmed Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, covering it with a foul-smelling coat of brown.
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These overflows are not like any other in the city--there is a whole different scale of sewage dumping going on here and the city just won't own-up-to-it.
The sewage overflow into the Gowanus is not just a recent event, this has been going on ever since the canal was built. The sewer system didn't work here even before the "crumbling". So now that the city has collected sewer tax from this area for more than a hundred years, they should have some money by now to build a sewer system that works..... More
