Byline: MATT PACENZA Staff Writer
ALBANY - Up to seven clamshell-type dredges will work 24 hours a day to remove PCBs from the Hudson River when the cleanup begins in the spring of 2007, according to a design report General Electric Co. released Tuesday.
The detailed report is the most comprehensive look yet at how the PCB-laden slurry will be dredged, processed and hauled away. About 26 barges filled with the muck will pass through Lock 7 on the Champlain Canal each day before heading to a 100-acre dewatering site just east of the village of Fort Edward.
Residents and elected officials along the upper Hudson reacted warily to the details of the massive dredging project - the largest environmental cleanup in U.S. history - slated to remove 2.65 million cubic yards of mud from the river. They say the plan to dredge and dewater the muck around the clock six days a week will bring traffic and endless din while damaging local businesses.
They're unhappy, for …
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