EPA Finalizes Landmark Cleanup Plan For Housatonic River
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a Revised Final Permit for the
Rest of River cleanup plan of the Housatonic River. The Revised Final Permit, issued under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), spells out the required cleanup measures to be followed by General Electric Company (GE) to remove contamination caused by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The Revised Final RCRA Permit Modification (Revised Final Permit) updates EPA s 2016 cleanup plan for the river, its floodplains and other surrounding areas.
EPA s remedy as outlined in the Revised Final Permit is protective of human health and the environment and will result in more contaminated sediment removed from the river and surrounding areas than EPA s previous 2016 decision. The cleanup plan has specific provisions to expedite cleanup, significantly enhance the PCB removal in the cleanup, and provide for safe, effective disposal of th
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EPA issues final permit for GE’s $576 million cleanup of PCBs in the Berkshires
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
Posted Dec 17, 2020
The former General Electric plant in Pittsfield sat between Silver Lake, shown in the 2001 file photo above, and the Housatonic River.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a revised final permit Thursday for the Rest of River plan to clean up PCBs from the Housatonic River left behind by General Electric’s operations in the Berkshires.
The plan, first announced in February 2020 by U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and others, was met with resistance from some Berkshire County residents and from environmental groups. That’s because a compromise allows GE to move waste with lower levels of polychlorinated biphenyl contamination to a single disposal site adjacent to the Lane gravel pit in Lee.