Forensic Hydrology at the Gowanus Canal (Published 2014)

Several times each week, Eymund Diegel does something unthinkable to most New Yorkers: He dips his bare hand in the Gowanus Canal. Mr. Diegel, an environmental planner who may well be the foremost expert on the hydrology of the Gowanus watershed, is fully aware of the toxicity of the brackish, …