Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Fox River's dredging for PCBs starts soon

Project begins in May; cost now $750 million
By Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel

Green Bay - The workhorse in the biggest and most expensive phase to clean up the Fox River is a massive building rising from the banks of the river.

Operating like a factory, the 242,000-square-foot facility will extract chemical compounds from river sediments for an estimated seven years and send them away in scores of dump trucks every day.

After years of jockeying and extensive planning, the actual processing of the contaminated sediments starts in May - making the Fox and the Hudson River in New York the largest remediation projects in the country. (Full Story)

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

No comments: