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Article: PCB DREDGING STOPS FOR NOW.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 29, 2009
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FORT EDWARD -- As the first season of the nation's largest river-pollution cleanup project winds down, the biggest lesson learned has its roots in the Hudson River's long-ago heyday as a center for the logging industry.
Dredging of PCBs from the river bottom around Fort Edward ended at about 4 a.m. Tuesday, but crews will remain on the river for another couple of weeks, dumping clean soil and gravel into the river to patch over the dredged areas -- a process comparable to laying down a new lawn to replace one that's been stripped away.
Next spring, scuba divers will start hand-planting aquatic plants on the new river bottom to speed up the restoration, ...