Back نيوتاون كريك ARZ Newtown Creek (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, New York, Kings County) CEB Newtown Creek German Newtown Creek French ניוטאון קריק HE ニュータウン川 Japanese Newtown Creek Dutch
| Newtown Creek | |
|---|---|
 The Creek in Long Island City | |
 Newtown Creek and its tributaries | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New York |
| Municipality | New York City |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Confluence of East Branch and English Kills |
| • coordinates | 40°43′06″N 73°55′27″W / 40.718412°N 73.924127°W |
| Mouth | East River |
• location | 2nd Street and 54th Avenue in Long Island City |
• coordinates | 40°44′14″N 73°57′40″W / 40.73734°N 73.96112°W |
• elevation | 0 ft (0 m) |
| Length | 3.5 mi (5.6 km) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 59.3 cu ft/s (1.68 m3/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | English Kills, Whale Creek |
| • right | Maspeth Creek, Dutch Kills |
Newtown Creek, a 3.5-mile (6-kilometer) long tributary of the East River,[1] is an estuary that forms part of the border between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, in New York City. Channelization made it one of the most heavily-used bodies of water in the Port of New York and New Jersey and thus one of the most polluted industrial sites in the United States,[2] containing years of discarded toxins, an estimated 30,000,000 US gallons (110,000,000 L; 25,000,000 imp gal) of spilled oil, including the Greenpoint oil spill, raw sewage from New York City's sewer system,[2] and other accumulation from a total of 1,491 sites.[3]
Newtown Creek was proposed as a potential Superfund site in September 2009,[4] and received that designation on September 27, 2010.[5] The EPA has delayed its cleanup until 2032.[6]
- ^ Eldredge & Horenstein 2014, p. 150.
- ^ a b Staff (December 12, 2008). "Newtown Creek Clean-Up Efforts". The City Concealed. Thirteen (WNET.org). Archived from the original on July 5, 2009. Retrieved June 29, 2009.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
blackwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Newtown Creek Superfund Site". New York, NY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved September 29, 2010.
- ^ Navarro, Mireya (September 27, 2010). "Newtown Creek Is Declared a Superfund Site". The New York Times. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
- ^ Kensinger, Nathan (December 5, 2022). "EPA delays cleanup of Brooklyn's toxic Newtown Creek Superfund site until 2032". Gothamist. Retrieved March 4, 2023.