HUDSON RIVER – The Environmental Protection Agency conducted an informational meeting Thursday regarding sampling in the lower Hudson River as part of the monitoring of the PCB cleanup process.
The sampling is being conducted in a 200-mile Superfund site from Troy to New York City that was created following General Electric’s PCB contamination. Pcb Terminal Pins
The EPA’s Gary Kiawinski said the agency has designed three different programs for sediment sampling.
“We collect recently deposited sediment, we’re collecting sediment where we collect fish, and we are collecting high-resolution sediment, essentially to push a tube into the bottom of the river, pull it out, and you take each of the layers out of that tube, and analyze them,” he said.
Soil sampling will start after Memorial Day. Monthly water sampling is being conducted in Poughkeepsie, Albany and Troy for about a year while fish and blue crab are being collected to gauge the river’s health following the dredging and removal of contaminated soil from 2011-2015.
Sediment sampling will be done without hindering any recreational or commercial activities on the lower Hudson River.
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