USA: EPA to Present Update on Hudson River Dredging

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that it will give a Hudson River PCB dredging update during a Community Advisory Group meeting, The Saratogian reports.

This meeting is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday at the Gideon Putnam Hotel conference room at Saratoga Spa State Park.

The three-hour session will also include a discussion of cultural resources, a review of dredging impacts on PCB concentrations in fish and a floodplains update.

Crews already dredged 363.000 cubic yards of material last year, 13.000 more than expected, and this year’s goal is another 450.000 cubic yards.

Dredging began in 2009, focused near the village of Fort Edward. There was no dredging in 2010, while officials studied results of the first year’s effort. After instituting a number of new procedures, dredging resumed late last spring.

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Dredging Today Staff, March 21, 2012; Image: hudsondredging