EPA Announces Action Plan for Remediation of PCB Contaminated Housatonic River
- Date Range
- April 1998 – May 1998
- Title
- EPA Announces Action Plan for Remediation of PCB Contaminated Housatonic River
- What occurred
- After over six months of intense negotiations with GE with no common ground being found, the EPA announced an initial plan to remediate PCB contamination in the Housatonic River. While GE had expressed, "concern whether remedial actions — other than taking no action — are justified in light of engineering feasibility, environmental effectiveness, and cost considerations” , the EPA ordered General Electric to clean up the first two miles (out of the outstanding 12.5 miles of majorly contaminated river) of polluted land. The agency also announced its plans to designate the area a Superfund site. It would take another year of negotiations to produce an agreement on the remediation of the first half-mile of the river, with GE being given until 2005 to complete this initial cleanup.
- Location
- 235 Merrill Road, Pittsfield, Massacusetts, 01201
- Image Citation
- Options for the Housatonic: Options for Cleanup - Sediment. http://www.housatonicoptions.com/options-for-cleanup/dredging-capping-in-the-river/
- Student name(s)
- Mitch Stechmann