2014 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 08:06:09 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Confined aquatic disposal, New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts
 
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
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