{"id":2272,"date":"2007-04-27T16:27:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T00:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/04\/yuck_the_dreaded_gowanus_haddock_give_coney_island_a_break_already.html"},"modified":"2007-04-27T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T00:27:06","slug":"yuck_the_dreade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/yuck_the_dreade.html","title":{"rendered":"Yuck, The Dreaded Gowanus Haddock (Give Coney Island A Break Already!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/those_things_ev.html\">500 gazillion free condoms<\/a> have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/30\/17\/30_17condoms.html\">end up somewhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A perfect storm of circumstances, including the less-than-perfect Nor&#8217;Easter last week, has sent a record number of condoms into the Gowanus Canal, according to volunteers at this week&#8217;s Earth Day cleanup of the canal zone.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion in the population of &#8220;Coney Island whitefish&#8221; is not only due to a city giveaway of condoms in bodegas, coffee bars and bars all over Brooklyn. Environmentalists say torrential rains from the Nor&#8217;Easter sent far more untreated sewage into the canal than the typical April shower.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to New York&#8217;s antiquated sewage system, when it&#8217;s raining that hard, &#8220;whatever was in your toilet lands in our natural resources,&#8221; said Ludger Balan of Urban Divers Estuary Conservancy.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those 500 gazillion free condoms have to end up somewhere: A perfect storm of circumstances, including the less-than-perfect Nor&#8217;Easter last week, has sent a record number of condoms into the Gowanus Canal, according to volunteers at this week&#8217;s Earth Day cleanup of the canal zone. The explosion in the population of &#8220;Coney Island whitefish&#8221; is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}