[CPEO-BIF] Confined aquatic disposal, New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Bedford Harbor Cleanup a Messy Situation

By JOYCE ROWLEY
ecoRI News (RI)
September 11, 2014

NEW BEDFORD - Next month the cleanup of the New Bedford Harbor  
Superfund site will move closer to completion, when the bid for  
filling the first confined aquatic disposal (CAD) cell is awarded.  
The CAD method is being used to comply with the Environmental  
Protection Agency (EPA) plan for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)  
containment.

However, local activists and members of Hands Across the River  
Coalition Inc. (HARC) continue to fight for the complete removal of  
all PCBs from the harbor.

With some 900,000 cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediment, the New  
Bedford Harbor site has some of the highest concentrations of PCBs in  
a Superfund marine environment, and is the state’s highest priority  
for remediation.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ecori.org/massachusetts-pollution/2014/9/11/new-bedford- 
harbor-cleanup-a-messy-situation.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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