美国环境保护局已将纽约市的Newtown Creek添加到其超级基金列表中，该列表优先考虑对该国最危险的废物网站的清理和补救工作。

沿着布鲁克林和皇后区的边界运行的3.8英里长的纽敦溪（Newtown Creek）被发现被多氯联苯（PCB），挥发性有机化合物（VOC），农药和金属污染。纽约市最活跃的工业区之一与小河相邻多年。

This is the city’s second site assigned to the Superfund List. Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal was added in March.

EPA表示，评估和最终清理将重点放在小河中的沉积物上，同时还确定了其他污染源，包括1978年的绿点石油溢油，该溢油污染了近100英亩的小河，估计有1700万加仑的石油。

EPA纽约和新泽西州EPA区域管理员朱迪思·埃克（Judith Enck）说：“在制造中，纽敦克里克（Newtown Creek）的有毒污染是一个多世纪。”“这是一个关键的城市水路。”

Newtown Creek makes up part of the core area of the New York-New Jersey Harbor Estuary, designated by the EPA as an “estuary of national significance.”

The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has supported the addition of Newtown Creek to the Superfund list, though the city challenged that same designation for the Gowanus Canal, chiefly because of the canal’s proximity to areas that were in talks to be developed for commercial and residential purposes.

The EPA says it does not have a timetable for the cleanup but added that negotiations are underway to award additional contracts to evaluate the site.

The agency also would not confirm the cost of the cleanup but said the 15-year/ $300 to $500 million estimate for the Gowanus Canal site could be considered “very rough estimates” for Newtown Creek.