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Newtown Creek

This article is about the creek in New York City. For the creek in Pennsylvania, see Newtown Creek (Bucks County, Pennsylvania). For the river on the Isle of Wight, see Newtown River.

Newtown Creek
The Creek in Long Island City
Newtown Creek and its tributaries
Location
CountryUnited States
StateNew York
MunicipalityNew York City
Physical characteristics
SourceConfluence of East Branch and English Kills
 • coordinates40°43′06″N 73°55′27″W / 40.718412°N 73.924127°W / 40.718412; -73.924127
MouthEast 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 / 40.73734; -73.96112
 • elevation
0 ft (0 m)
Length3.5 mi (5.6 km)
Discharge 
 • average59.3 cu ft/s (1.68 m3/s)
Basin features
Tributaries 
 • leftEnglish Kills, Whale Creek
 • rightMaspeth 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]

  1. ^ Eldredge & Horenstein 2014, p. 150.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference black was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Newtown Creek Superfund Site". New York, NY: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Retrieved September 29, 2010.
  5. ^ Navarro, Mireya (September 27, 2010). "Newtown Creek Is Declared a Superfund Site". The New York Times. Retrieved September 27, 2010.
  6. ^ Kensinger, Nathan (December 5, 2022). "EPA delays cleanup of Brooklyn's toxic Newtown Creek Superfund site until 2032". Gothamist. Retrieved March 4, 2023.

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