ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A magazine says widespread subterranean contamination along the upper Hudson River threatens to erase results of the massive effort to dredge the river clean of PCBs.
Government regulators and General Electric disputed the contention in the new issue of Harper's Magazine that PCB contamination seeping into the upper river could be heavy enough to undo the federal Superfund project designed to remove contaminated sediment downriver.
The first phase of the planned 40-mile dredging project wrapped up last month.
The existence of underground contamination at the two old GE sites has long been known. But the Harper's article claims the threat from the contamination is greater than officials generally acknowledge.
