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With Public Lab, a Camera Flies in Brooklyn to Monitor Pollution
The Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, N.Y., has inspired urban legends from the forensic to the ecotopian. In the year and a half since the Environmental Protection Agency bestowed its Superfund designation, the canal has become a site of even more intense re-imagination by several groups, some of whom are customizing Public Laboratory tools for deepening their work. Designers, developers, researchers and hackers are undertaking their own parallel efforts on issues that even a Superfund clean-up can't fix: the restoration of original watercourses and the mitigation of 330 million gallons of sewer overflow that continue to enter the canal annually. Newtown...
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