Sentences with phrase «contaminated sediment»

General Electric removed 2.65 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment from a 40 - mile stretch of the upper Hudson through 2015.

Defended a multi-million dollar CERCLA claim in Oregon involving contaminated sediments in the Willamette River arising from a wide variety of industrial activity over a 100 year period;

The $ 2 billion dredging project removed more than 2.75 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment from the Hudson River.

The California contamination lawyers at Bick Law LLP have been in the forefront of efforts to help clients resolve potential NRD liability at major CERCLA sites with contaminated sediment sites in rivers, bays, harbors and estuaries, as well as sites with contaminated groundwater, wetlands, and soils.

Please note, however, that there are ongoing PCB releases from several contaminated sediment sites in the Lower Hudson River for which the NYSDEC has the lead responsibility (for example, the Harbor at Hastings site for which NYSDEC issued a record of decision in 2012),» she wrote.

Surrounded by leaders of several environmental organizations and standing near a boat landing along the river, Seggos said unacceptably high levels of PCB - contaminated sediment remain in large portions of the Upper Hudson River.

«Honeywell will leave close to 10 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment under the many caps in the lake,» said Judith Enck, the Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator from 2009 until January.

Federal regulators have released their plan for how General Electric will dismantle the facility that treats contaminated sediment from the Hudson River.

«Urban water pumping raises arsenic risk in Southeast Asia: River water is now flowing into aquifers through highly contaminated sediments.»

Kimberly has unique subject matter training in contaminated sediment cleanup, from Texas A & M, which she has relied upon when representing clients in the Hudson River, N.Y., Portland Harbor, OR., and Harbor Island, WA.

Haverstraw Bay is polluted with contaminated sediments, sewage and urban runoff, and the plant's intakes would be approximately 3.5 - miles from Entergy's Indian Point nuclear power plant, which releases radionuclides to the Hudson.

GE challenges the need for out - of - state disposal of contaminated sediment and decries the agency's claim that cost is the reason GE is challenging the plan.

Critics pushing for a broader cleanup have noted that a large amount of PCB - contaminated sediment remains in the river.

The announcements Thursday marked the sixth and final season of dredging PCB - contaminated sediments from the bottom of a 40 - mile stretch of the upper Hudson between Fort Edward and Troy.

Also at 6 p.m., the EPA holds a public meeting to discuss its second review of the cleanup of PCB - contaminated sediment in the upper Hudson River, The Saratoga Hilton, Saratoga Ballroom, Room 1, 534 Broadway, Saratoga Springs.

The cleanup of PCB - contaminated sediment was paid for by General Electric Co. after the federal government ordered the project for the upper Hudson River, based about an hour north of Albany.

Also at 6 p.m., the EPA holds a public meeting to discuss its second review of the cleanup of PCB - contaminated sediment in the upper Hudson River, Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel, Terrace Ballroom, 40 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie.

GE is slated to complete an EPA - ordered cleanup as early as this summer, one environmentalists say will leave behind millions of pounds of health - threatening PCB - contaminated sediments both north and south of the Federal Dam in Troy.

As a result of the $ 1 billion effort, more than 3 million cubic yards of P.C.B. - contaminated sediment have already been removed.

While earlier intervention by the Cuomo administration would have been welcome, its recent demand for additional dredging of at least 136 acres of contaminated sediment is both timely and important.

• $ 775,000 for Willsboro, Essex County, to stabilize 2,000 feet of shoreline; a project that will reduce the deposition of contaminated sediment and improve both the water quality and the fish habitat of the Boquet River and Lake Champlain.

Boston - based GE completed removal of 2.75 million cubic yards (2.1 million cubic meters) of polychlorinated biphenyl - contaminated sediment from the river in 2015.

One percent or less of the contaminated sediment that's moving offshore every year means things aren't going to change very fast,» Buesseler says.

Rain water is shunted into storm drains, pushing the contaminated sediment downstream and delivering a fresh load of toxic runoff and snowmelt from city streets to Little Black Creek.

«We've been looking at the fate of that buried sediment on the continental shelf and tracking how much of that contaminated sediment gets offshore through re-suspension from the ocean bottom,» he adds.

Bottom - dwelling fish continue to be found with high levels of radioactive elements, potentially coming from leaking radioactive water or contaminated sediments

But after the $ 25 million removal of some 300,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment, Spoelstra's optimism was tempered by the enormity of what lay ahead.

Twelve miles of the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Michigan, will be temporarily shut while Enbridge dredges approximately 350,000 cubic yards of contaminated sediment.

Dredging the contaminated sediments is likely to reach $ 1.5 billion to $ 4.5 billion at the Areas of Concern.

The Pine River's contaminated sediment has resulted in a no - consumption advisory for all species of its fish.

«Instead of digging up contaminated sediments or soil, we hoped to add something to the sediments that will keep the mercury from getting into the food web,» says Cynthia Gilmour of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Unlike fish that may come in and out of the harbor sporadically during the summer months to feed, the killifish are there year round and spend winters burrowing into the contaminated sediment.

Methods: The scientists began with uranium - contaminated sediment from an Integrated Field Research Challenge Site.

A great deal of attention was paid to the prospect of the contaminated sediments being shipped by rail to Texas where a local company would be well paid to properly dispose of it.

And now we learn that, without the contaminated sediments, 800 years of «validation» are eliminated.

DDT and PCB concentrations were found to be much higher in fish living in areas with contaminated sediments — particularly the white croaker.