The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started its third five-year review of the Upper Hudson River PCB cleanup efforts. The review specifically deals with the Hudson River PCBs Superfund site.
The site stretches from Hudson Falls, New York, to New York City. The removal of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from a 40-mile stretch of the upper Hudson River between Fort Edward and Troy, New York, was finished during the year 2015.
“It has been EPA’s long-standing experience on this iconic site that engagement from the public has strengthened our work and served well communities up and down the Hudson," EPA Regional Administrator Lisa Garcia told the EPA Newswire on April 19.
Garcia also discussed the importance of the plan.
“As we continue our work to monitor and assess the upper Hudson, move forward with the Hudson River floodplain investigation and evaluate how best to assess the lower Hudson, EPA is committed to continuing to fully engage our state and federal partners and the site’s Community Advisory Group during the five-year review process," Garcia also said in a press release.
The site cleanup was handled by the General Electric (GE) Company under the supervision of and a legal agreement with EPA. The Superfund law mandates that a review takes place every five years after the beginning of on-site construction at a site to make sure that the cleanup is working as intended and protective of people’s health and the environment.
