PCB Cleanup Has Not Gone Exactly As Planned

Judging from some draft evaluations prepared by the Environmental Protection Agency and General Electric, the plan for dredging the Hudson River for PCBs faces some likely adjustments.

The first phase of the cleanup, which ran from May to October of last year, turned up more contamination than expected in some areas, according to drafts released on Thursday. Officials also found a higher rate of recontamination of the river from the dredging itself than envisioned in the initial phase, which involved a six-mile segment of the upper Hudson in Washington County.

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