GE Completes Hudson River Dredging
October 05 2015 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
GE (NYSE: GE) today announced it has completed dredging in New
York’s Upper Hudson River. Since 2009, GE has removed the majority
of PCBs from the Upper Hudson River in one of the largest and most
successful environmental cleanup projects ever undertaken in the
United States. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has
called the project an historic achievement that protected the
environment and human health. GE’s crews removed more than 300,000
pounds of PCBs from the river – more than twice as much as had been
anticipated.
“Thirteen years ago, I committed GE to undertaking an
environmental dredging project of a size, scope and complexity that
had not been attempted before,” said GE Chairman and CEO Jeff
Immelt. “Our goal was to perform this work as safely and
effectively as possible in full compliance with the rigorous
standards and timetable set by EPA. We brought world-class GE
engineering and technology to the task, and we met every obligation
on the Hudson, and will continue to do so. I am proud of the work
of our GE team and confident that the dredging project will benefit
the Hudson for generations to come.”
“This project took seven years to design and six more to
complete,” said Ann Klee, GE’s vice president of Global Operations
— Environment, Health and Safety. “Our team of environmental
engineers and dredging experts and our contractors worked around
the clock to successfully achieve the goals of the project while
minimizing to the greatest possible extent impacts on the river and
local communities. We could not have completed this project without
the steadfast cooperation of local communities, property owners and
residents of the Upper Hudson and our strong working relationship
with EPA, the New York State Department of Environmental
Conservation and the New York State Canal Corporation.”
Dredging took place over a 40-mile stretch of the Upper Hudson
River between Fort Edward, N.Y. and Troy, N.Y. The work was
performed 24 hours a day, six days a week, for six months of the
year for six years. GE invested more than $1 billion to complete
the project. More than 500 people were employed.
Although dredging is now completed, GE’s environmental cleanup
work on and along the Hudson River will continue. GE will restore
under-water vegetation to areas of the river that have been dredged
and will monitor environmental conditions in the river for the
foreseeable future. The data will be used to assess the benefits of
the dredging project. GE also will continue the cleanups of its
Hudson Falls, N.Y., and Fort Edward, N.Y., plant sites — cleanups
that already have eliminated the sites as significant sources of
PCBs to the river — and will continue a comprehensive evaluation of
the floodplains along the river shorelines.
“We are proud of what we have accomplished so far, and look
forward to bringing the same standard of excellence to the work
that lies ahead,” said Klee.
About GE
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