[Hegemony Cricket]

I’d be willing to bet that they dredge up some really odd stuff...

[sionnsar]

the Hudson’s last significant toxic legacy from an era of unfettered industrial activity and dumping.

Just a question: Is it "dumping" if the material you released was considered innocuous at the time you released it? As opposed to illegal (at the time) dispersal into the environment?

This could have a big effect upon operations that have relied on coal-burning, among other things...

[CaptRon]

There are several people who believe this just stir up crap that’s been covered over for years.

[Bender2]

Re: Twelve dredges are to work round the clock, six days a week, into October, removing sediment laced with the chemicals known as PCBs. Mile-long freight trains running every several days will carry the dried mud to a hazardous-waste landfill in Texas.

Gadzooks! If that ain't a reason to secede... what is???

Oh, well, time for the season final... of "Desperate Housewives" for us Desperate Old Housebots!

[synbad600]

This is in my old neck of the woods. We used to swim in the Hudson all the time and I don't have green skin or three eyes yet.

While I don't know a lot about this, I do remember reading that stirring up all this sentiment will be worse than just letting it be.

[Vince Ferrer]

Hey, wait a minute:

Bacteria Found That Can Clean Up PCBs Without Dredging

On second thought forget it, that would be too easy.

[freekitty]

Uh, didn’t they have a documentary of something about how pristine the Hudson is now?

[synbad600]

Local ping.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

****Twelve dredges are to work round the clock, six days a week, into October, removing sediment laced with the chemicals known as PCBs.****

We have a saying...”When you stir old s#!t it still stinks as bad as the first time!”

Why not leave it alone where it will be covered by other sediments instead of polluting Texas!

[edpc]

An estimated 1.3 million pounds of PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, concrete shoes flowed into the upper Hudson.........

[thatdewd]

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.

[NewJerseyJoe]

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.

[the invisib1e hand]

but they won’t dredge the pollutants from City Hall.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Will everybody interested in this issue also be getting daily updates through “The Dredge Report”?

[1_Rain_Drop]

Why take to crud to Texas?
Doesn't NYS have its own hazardous-waste landfill?

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.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

I’ll be looking for a full expose on this reported by the NBC Nightly News. /sarc.

[neverdem]

From peanuts to shellfish... Why are so many adults suddenly getting allergies?

First Swine Flu Death Reported in New York

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[BIGLOOK]

Pete Seeger just turned ninety, the sloop Clearwater's in mothballs, GE moved and the Hudson's still muddy. Last I heard the sturgeon and the shad were running again. Saw eagles fishing from the Palisades across from Yankee Stadium in 2001.

Is this an environmental crisis or a financial one?

[armymarinemom]

Reminds me of the pollution scene of Naked Gun

[Cheetahcat]

GE the Green Company Right\s