Hudson River Named Nation's Second Most Endangered River

U.S. Newswire | April 16, 1997 | Copyright

WASHINGTON, April 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Hudson River was named today the second most endangered river in the country by American Rivers, the nation's leading river conservation group, because of extensive polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination in its upper reaches.

The Upper Hudson River remains arguably the largest PCB contamination site in the United States. PCBs are distributed over 190 miles of the Hudson River in river bottom sediments. The Hudson River was designated a federal Superfund site in 1983. It is the second largest Super fund site in America, by area, and the ...

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