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Article: IT PAYS TO BE ALERT ON WATERWAY VOYAGE.(Capital Region)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2009
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Never, ever take a river for granted. Not even with seemingly civilized, placid waters in familiar territory.
This timeless truth we learned anew on our canoe adventure. My paddle partner Paul Grondahl and I got lucky.
Early on Thursday we put in our canoe on the west bank of the Hudson a few hundreds yards below Fort Edward. All around us, and especially just above, the General Electric river dredging project was in full bluster, tugs pushing barges every which way including into the adjacent Lock 7 of the Champlain Canal and up to a dewatering facility. Giant dredges were scooping contaminated sediment from the river bottom into other barges; crews ...