Hudson River Rehab

GE is being forced to clean-up the Hudson River. Polychlorinated biphenyl or PCBs freely flowed into the Hudson River from GE plants. This went on for decades. PCB production was banned in the United States in 1979. Thirty one years later, GE is attempting to correct that environmental disaster.

This year, GE is planting river plants in areas near Fort Edward. That area has already been dredged for PCBs.

CBS6: GE replants Hudson River after a season of dredging

Divers are planting wild aquatic celery and American pondweed on the river bottom, and other workers are putting pickerelweed and other native plants in wetlands fringing the river.