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Baby Whale Dies After Days in Gowanus Canal
in response to reader comment: Poor Sludgy

Submitted by michael roy dunetz, Apr 20, 2007 16:52

if the sludge in the gowanus canal is so toxic it could kill a whale imagine what would happen if a human fell in the gowanus canal , it is said that it much cleaner now than is was like twenty years ago, and it is toxic enougth to kill a whale , I would say it is still pretty BAD! Buy the way anyone know what is the toxic level realy like in the gowanus canal?


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Apr 20, 2007 00:37

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Apr 19, 2007 08:42

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Apr 19, 2007 05:30

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michael roy dunetz 

Apr 20, 2007 16:52

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