Hudson dredging plan pushed to 2007

The timetable for the dredging of PCBs from the Hudson River was delayed one more time Thursday.At a meeting Thursday of the Hudson River PCBs Site Community Advisory Group some decisions were made that actually for a change seemed to please many of the parties involved.

On the advice of General Electric, the company responsible for dumping PCBs into the upper Hudson for decades, the Environmental Protection Agency says it will delay the start of dredging one year.Now the start date is 2007.

"At the end of day nobody's interests are served by a project that is poorly planned and poorly executed in the Hudson River," GE spokesman Mark Behan said."We think that if it takes a little bit more time to ensure we understand all of the issues and have resolved all of the problems in advance it's time well spent."

GE will actually execute the dredging under the EPA's authority.

Also the EPA decided it only needs one de-watering site for the sludge taken from the river instead of two.

It had already been considered a done deal that the town of Fort Edward would be a de-watering site for the more than 2.5 million cubic yards of contaminated muck.

Bethlehem was also considered as a site, but Thursday it was officially taken out of the running -- much to the joy of Bethlehem Town Supervisor Theresa Egan.

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"We had a multimillion dollar project planned for that particular site and it will enable us to move forward with that also," Egan said.

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Even Fort Edward Town Supervisor Merrilyn Pulver had to admit the delay in the start of dredging would give an opportunity for better planning, crucial for her town's survival through the process.

Not only is it a de-watering site, but some of the most extensive dredging of the Hudson will take place with in the towns boarders.

GE says it will be ready to present it's first conceptual view of the first phase of the dredging project in August.