G.E. Contamination of the Housatonic River
- Date Range
- 1932 – 1977
- Title
- G.E. Contamination of the Housatonic River
- What occurred
- During the 1930s General Electric Began using PCBs as a lubricant in their manufacturing process of electric transformers. In 1969, GE began dumping about 1,143 pounds per day of suspended solid waste directly into the Housatonic River which had become a popular waste removal method for local sewage and industry. Between 1932 and 1977, the company released a total of more than a million and a half pounds of PCBs into the Housatonic and the greater Pittsfield area including Silver Lake.
- Location
- 100 plastics ave, Pittsfield, MA 01201
- Image Citation
- Building 2 in 1910. From Archives:Transformers at Pittsfield, part 1, https://ethw.org/Archives:Transformers_at_Pittsfield,_part_1
- Student name(s)
- Mitch Stechmann