Honeywell, National Grid Ordered to Clean Up Gowanus Canal

The EPA on Tuesday ordered Honeywell, Hess, National Grid and others to start dredging the Gowanus Canal, a Superfund site in New York City.

The nearly two-mile-long Brooklyn canal was used as a major industrial transportation route and a dumping ground for paper mills, tanneries, and chemical plants for decades. The Environmental Protection Agency ordered the companies to start cleaning up part of the site, following a plan the agency finalized about seven years ago.

The companies bound by the order are Brooklyn Union Gas Co., doing business as National Grid New York; Consolidated Edison Co. of New York Inc.; ...