City wants collaborative clean-up of Newtown Creek, gives conflicting answers on support of Superfund

The City of New York wants Newtown Creek to be cleaned up in a “collaborative and comprehensive way,” but gave conflicting answers about whether or not it supports adding the creek to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program at a community meeting last night.

City to host Newtown Creek meeting tonight

The city will hold a meeting on the federal government’s plan to make Newtown Creek a Superfund site tonight at 6 p.m. at Automotive High School in Brooklyn. The meeting is the first held by the city, following two public meetings last month with the Environmental Protection Agency.

Meeting with EPA, Alliance scheduled for tonight on status of Newtown Creek

The Newtown Creek Alliance will host the second of two meetings this week on the Superfund status of Newtown Creek with representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency tomorrow night at 6:45 p.m. at St. Cecilia’s Church.

EPA extends comment period on Newtown Creek on city’s request

The Environmental Protection Agency has granted the city’s request to extend the amount of time the public can comment on the agency’s proposal to make Newtown Creek a federal superfund site, an EPA spokesman said last week.

The city said it needed more time to review the data before commenting on the proposal, said Elizabeth Totman, spokesman for the Superfund program. She said the EPA granted the request because of its technical nature.

Candidates debate issues, community debates clean-up

As Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Comptroller William Thompson squared off in the first debate Tuesday night in East Harlem, across the East river a small group of citizens met to debate something else.

“What we want to do here tonight is come up with a list of questions,” said Katie Schmidt, Executive Director of the Newtown Creek Alliance. They’re going to take those questions to the Environmental Protection Agency.