Klawinski said the plan is to simply keep monitoring that area. Klawinski said that wasn’t because of ineffective work, but because PCBs were found unexpectedly outside the area that GE had a legal obligation to dredge. While the most-contaminated section of the river below Fort Edward was dredged “shore to shore” and 87 percent of PCBs removed, in the Schuylerville area only about 36 percent were removed - about half of the goal. The boaters are basically concerned about, how safe is this?”Īfter GE spent what is believed to be well over $1 billion on the seven-year dredging project, Mathis said he’d like to see GE spending advertising money to promote how clean the river now is.īut other data that emerged Thursday raised questions about how effective the cleanup was. “To bring this river back as a recreational area, we’ve got to do better. “There’s way fewer boats than there were years ago,” he said. “Different species at different locations will have different rates of recovery,” said Kevin Farrar, an environmental remediation specialist with the state Department of Environmental Conservation.ĭavid Mathis of Schuylerville, who represents recreational boating interests, said the dredging project has been devastating for the riverfront recreational economy, because people don’t believe the river is safe to use.
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