USA: Hudson River Dredging Set to Begin

General Electric Co. officials said Tuesday that the Hudson River dredging will begin this week if weather permits.

The dredging work will commence with a single dredge about 40 miles north of Albany. Work will ramp up over the next few weeks.

GE released poly-chlorinated biphenyls into the river decades ago and is in the middle of a Superfund cleanup that could cost more than $1 billion. It is expected to take four or more years to remove the remaining 2 million cubic yards of sediment from the river bottom.

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Dredging Today Staff, May 9, 2012; Image: hudsondredging