Posted on 05/17/2009 5:51:52 PM PDT by neverdem
The methods (dredging) they are using only guarantee that large amounts of the PCB contaminants will just be released into the river flow and will be freshly deposited downstream. Where they were, these contaminated sediments were encapsulated with decades of uncontaminated sediment. Now, the PCBs will be completely exposed to the water and aquatic life and will be re-contaminating everything for years to come. There must be a democrat involved.
Thanks for the link.
This stuff had been entombed in mud and sediment ... essentially cut off from anything it might have adversely affected. Now, it is all being stirred up and re-released into the river.
but they won’t dredge the pollutants from City Hall.
I remember reading a story in the NY Times that the lower Hudson around NYC was cleaned so much that wooden piers around the city resumed rotting again. Before, with all of the pollution, it inhibited the microorganisms that make wood in water rot.
I still live on the Hudson.
Will everybody interested in this issue also be getting daily updates through “The Dredge Report”?
A few years ago they were testing the creek water which flows to the reservoirs. It was the only year that I noticed so many dead fish and cray fish. I wonder what was dumped in the water that year.
“Why not leave it alone where it will be covered by other sediments instead of polluting Texas!”
Not to mention stirring it up and some if it washing downstream and polluting otherwise non polluted river bottom.
I’ll be looking for a full expose on this reported by the NBC Nightly News. /sarc.
should read:
Why take the crud to Texas?
Back in the 1970's when PCB's were a hot topic many studies were made as to what to do about the PCB's in the silt in the Hudson. The consensus was to leave the Hudson alone and let new silt cover the old, effectively sealing off the PCB's.
The PCB's in the Hudson came from several GE plants which began dumping the PCB's in the 1940's.
In the mid 1970's GE agreed to stop dumping the PCB's into the Hudson but since then PCB's have still been leaching into the river from various GE plants. So the premise that new silt would be free of PCB's proved to be false.
In 1976 GE reached agreement with the State of New York to spend a measly $4 million dollars on PCB research and monitoring PCB levels in the Hudson. In return GE was held blameless by the state for the massive pollution.
GE is still fighting with the federal government over the cost of the cleanup. Estimates to clean up the entire Hudson range into the many billions of dollars.
GE has been a big backer of Barack Obama (GE owns NBC and MSNBC - the All-Obama channels) so it will be interesting to see how they make out in their efforts to escape paying for the cleanup.
Yes, they do.
It's called New York City.
I had such a grand time when I lived there, in Glens Falls. We even swam in the canal.
near TZ Bridge
Because NJ got first choice.
First Swine Flu Death Reported in New York
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