Thanks to an unwillingness by the EPA and the State of New York to press G.E.
Unfortunately the story is not over as the cleanup was left unfinished. Its website boasted “Cleanup Meeting Goals, No More Dredging Needed” and proclaimed its work on the river “one of the largest and most successful environmental cleanup projects ever undertaken in the United States.” Last December the company announced it had completed its mission and began pulling out barges and cranes and disassembling docks, having spent six years and $2 billion in its efforts. In 2009 G.E was tasked with the clean up of the river.
Finally, the EPA forced the company to remove the contamination by dredging the river bottom, I along with many others assumed this meant the job was done. Edwards dump millions of gallons of poisonous chemicals into the river between the 1940s and 1970s, the company also spent tens of millions of dollars fighting against cleaning up the mess it had made. Not only did the General Electric plant at Ft. Despite all the gains made by eliminating polluters, policing tributaries and better informing the public about how to keep the Hudson clean, the insidious leftover toxins dumped into the river forty to seventy years ago limits just how clean the river can get.
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