{"id":98,"date":"2009-05-18T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T14:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/?p=98"},"modified":"2009-05-18T10:18:36","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T15:18:36","slug":"dredging-of-hudson-river-begins-51509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Dredging of Hudson River begins (5\/15\/09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hudson, like the Charles, has a sediment problem.\u00a0 Unlike the Charles, the source of the Hudson&#8217;s PCBs and other nasties has been traced to an organization that can be held accountable &#8212; GE.\u00a0 After a lengthy court battle the clean-up has begun.\u00a0 Estimates are that it will be, initially, a $750 million dollar operation but possibly becoming &#8220;many times that.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s going to hurt, even for a company of GE&#8217;s size.<\/p>\n<p>The probability of any similar, near-term spot-dredging in the Charles is next to nil in my opinion.\u00a0 All of the original pollutant-spewing factories and mills along the Charles are now long out of operation and their respective companies are most likely long dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>For the swimming race we have a simple solution to the sediment problem &#8212; we avoid it alltogether.\u00a0 Participants enter and exit the Charles via dock ladders.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the rest of the NY Times article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/16\/science\/earth\/16dredge.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=hudson%20river%20ge%20pcb&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/05\/16\/nyregion\/16dredge.xlarge1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"261\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hudson, like the Charles, has a sediment problem.\u00a0 Unlike the Charles, the source of the Hudson&#8217;s PCBs and other nasties has been traced to an organization that can be held accountable &#8212; GE.\u00a0 After a lengthy court battle the clean-up has begun.\u00a0 Estimates are that it will be, initially, a $750 million dollar operation but possibly becoming &#8220;many times that.&#8221;\u00a0 That&#8217;s going to hurt, even for a company of GE&#8217;s size. The probability of any similar, near-term spot-dredging in the Charles is next to nil in my opinion.\u00a0 All of the original pollutant-spewing factories and mills along the Charles are now long out of operation and their respective companies are most likely long dissolved. For the swimming race we have a simple solution to the sediment problem &#8212; we avoid it alltogether.\u00a0 Participants enter and exit the Charles via dock ladders. You can read the rest of the NY Times article here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesriverswimmingclub.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}