Dredge report1/18/2024 plan, dredges would remove about 2.6 billion cubic yards of sediment containing some 100,000 pounds of PCB's from various "hot spots" along 40 miles of the river, from Troy north to Fort Edward. It reached that decision after years of painstaking, peer-reviewed scientific studies, and nothing has emerged since to credibly challenge it. replied that river currents were continually churning them up, and that the bottom must therefore be dredged. Though it has never denied responsibility for the PCB's, the company has fought bitterly with state and federal agencies over how to handle the problem.Īmong it main arguments was that most of the chemicals were safely buried in sediment and should be left alone - to which the E.P.A. This claim would have greater credibility were it not for G.E.'s long record of delay, obfuscation and tactical maneuvering. It says it is negotiating in good faith with the E.P.A. says that the old deadlines proved unrealistic, and that the repeated delays reflect nothing more than its earnest commitment to having this job done right the first time. The dredging is a daunting job, one of the country's biggest environmental cleanups ever, posing immense technical and logistical challenges. That was delayed to next summer, and then, in late June, the work was put off yet again, to 2007 at the earliest. Under a dredging plan devised during the Clinton administration and ratified in 2001 by Christie Whitman, administrator of President Bush's Environmental Protection Agency, the first scoops of soil laden with toxic PCB's were to have been lifted from the river bottom this past spring. General Electric, a mountain of a company, knows this well, which is one reason the cleanup of the pollutants it dumped years ago into the Hudson River has moved so slowly. Anyone who would move mountains must first overcome the problem of inertia, and be prepared to expend enormous effort just to get things rolling.
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