[Milsurplus] PCB's

[mstangelo at comcast.net]

The wife and I take a walk in a local marina which also hosts work boats working on projects in New York harbor. We saw a tugboat loading supplies and spoke to the crew. They were from the Gulf coast and were working on dredging jobs around New York. One of the jobs they worked on was dredging 40 miles of the Hudson River south of Troy to collect the contaminated sediment. GE mad a deal with the state and paid for the cleanup. They told us the sediment was shipped by rail to a disposal site in Texas. Here is the story:

<https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a4522/4331641/>

I would still be leery about eating the fish.

Mike N2MS


> On 12/02/2023 3:10 PM EST Reuben Popp <reuben.popp at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There is also a lot of referenced work on the CDC and pubmed. 
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> https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/polychlorinated-biphenyls/adverse_health.html
> Chloracne is the same condition that exposure to agent orange would cause.
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> Not sure about you, but looking over that list of effects makes me wonder about the study you mention. When I lived in Poughkeepsie, NY, you were told to not eat ANYTHING out of the Hudson as the entirety of it was contaminated with PCBs from upriver where GE (or was it Westinghouse?) dumped a bunch of PCBs. So much so, that the Hudson was declared a superfund site... one of the largest in the US.
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