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To: Joe NYC who wrote (132172)	2/9/2001 7:22:02 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (3) of 1570412

The environmentalists don't seem to grasp the concept of cost / benefit. Every issue is a question of life and death. Tell me about it. The EPA directed dredging of the upper Hudson River for PCBs is one of the most misguided short sighted proposals I have ever seen. It will involve bank to bank dredging of over 40 miles of the upper Hudson and will involve nearly 3 million cubic yards of dredged material. The scope of this project is beyond belief. This is more dredged material than in ALL of the remedial dredging ordered by the EPA in their entire history. It will literally destroy the ecosystem of the upper Hudson and may not materially decrease the level of PCbs at all. The PCB levels in the upper Hudson have decreased 90% from the peak and are projected to be within safe levels in about another decade. This massive dredging project is estimated even by the EPA to take at least five years. Most realistic estimations approach 10 years. I am in total agreement with GE on this one. The more reasonable thing to do is to eliminate additional sources of PCBs which in this case is the rock formations below the Fort Edward GE plant where most of the PCBs were originally dumped. This bedrock continues to leach PCBs into the river despite the ban on dumping. GE has done a good job (and spent over a hundred million dollars) by drilling recovery wells into these bedrock formations and recovering a high percentage of the PCBs before they reach the Hudson. I still have hope that the new administration (Bush/Whitman) will end this mindlessness and focus the EPA on more beneficial issues. For more information and for free STOP THE DREDGING bumper stickers and signs see: hudsonvoice.com THE WATSONYOUTH

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