GE Contamination Investigation
- Date Range
- 1995 – 2021
- Title
- GE Contamination Investigation
- What occurred
- In 1995 GE signed an agreement with NYS to start investigating local contamination they have created. The Schenectady plant was seen as a "current and potential significant threat to public health and the environment." In the past, the main campus included 2.6 tons of PCB-laden transformers and liquids, a suspected human carcinogen (polychlorinated biphenyls, banned from the US in 1979), 1 ton of solvents and an unknown quantity of what the state called "organic and inorganic lab wastes." Between 2000 and 2003, 1,000 soil borings and almost 1,500 groundwater samples were tested for contaminants. The final remediation plan agreed to by GE and the DEC took from 2005 to 2014 to negotiate.
- Location
- 1 River Rd, Schenectady, NY 12345
- Image Citation
- https://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Decades-of-contamination-at-General-Electric-s-8343571.php
- Student name(s)
- Olivia Salvador