Oily Williamsburg Condo Coverup Almost Finished

The coverup environmental remediation project at McCarren Park Mews at N. 11th and Roebling in Williamsburg on a site we like to call the Roebling Oil Field is making great progress. A look at the site yesterday found that netting on the fence has been repaired to close up all the holes we have been using to document the oozing oil. (There are still some openings though and you don't need much room to stick a Cannon Powershot lens through a hole; it's one of the reasons we have it our arsenal.) We also found a work crew on the site and that a huge amount of soil had been used since New Year's to cover over the black oil still oozing up through the ground and the retaining walls. Meantime, blogger Bad Advice, who lives near the smelly development site writes:

This is a but a sampling of the stanky, oily dirt that is probably going to be responsible for every breeder in a six-block vicinity giving birth to flipper babies who develop cancer by age six. I cannot stress enough how nasty this lot smells. And they've been digging it up for months!

Note the greasy slick leading out to the street. I'm really excited that the Mews is spreading the wealth. It's like a big old mess of stinky toxic brownie batter oozing out all across the 'hood. Yum.

Bad Advice also has some photos of the big fill underway, so it' worth checking out the post. Us, we're going to miss seeing and smelling that Williamsburg Black Gold now that it is almost out of sight. But, definitely not out of mind.

Oh, and they also covered up the sinkhole that swallowed us up on New Year's Eve, but we didn't step on it see the quality of the work.


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