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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (132381)	2/11/2001 9:07:50 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570414

Where are all those PCBs going? I should have said that the PCB level in the fish fauna has decreased 90% from the peak. This is due to a number of factors. Foremost, PCBs are no longer legally being dumped into the river. Second, GE has successfully been able to recover the majority of the PCBs that are trapped in the bedrock below their main Hudson Falls dump site by drilling recovery wells into the bedrock where the PCBs are trapped before they leach into the river. Also, natural sedimentation processes occurring in the river over the last 30 years have, to an extent, buried the PCB laden sediments under a layer of clean sediments. This, in effect, isolates the bio fauna from contamination by the PCBs. Finally, although PCBs are remarkably stable compounds, there probably has been at least minimal biological decay into less toxic forms. The sum result of all these processes is an upper Hudson which is approved for boating, swimming, and as a drinking water source. The proposed dredging is to lower the PCB levels in the fish. Well, the taking of fish for human consumption from the upper Hudson is currently prohibited due to the high levels of PCB. I might add that only repeated consumption of large amounts of contaminated fish would likely get you in trouble. Isn't it the same situation with cigarettes?? What am I missing here?? THE WATSONYOUTH