Sunday, April 4, 2021 - 5:03 pm
MASSENA – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that in-river work will resume next month to clean up sediment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at the Grasse River Superfund Site, also known as the “Alcoa Aggregation.”
The EPA, state Department of Environmental Conservation, and the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe continue to work together on the project.
In 2013, EPA selected a cleanup plan for the site that called for dredging and capping of PCB‐contaminated sediment in a 7.2‐mile stretch of river.
The 2021 work will primarily include placement of a 12-inch sand, gravel and/or stone cap in the lower five miles of the main river channel from the Route 131 Bridge to the mouth of the Grasse River, covering over 200 acres; sand backfilling in areas dredged in 2020 near Snug Harbor; and habitat reconstruction throughout the site.
WATERTOWN â The St. Lawrence Seaway System, a series of locks, canals, and channels in the U.S. and Canada that stretches for 2,340 miles, is …
Recent events in the Suez Canal drew worldwide attention to the fact that when a cargo vessel goes sideways in a shipping channel, it can cause big problems.
Similar scenarios are not unheard of much closer to home.
On Dec. 2, the freighter Harvest Spirit ran aground in a Detroit River channel, on the Canadian side, about 19 miles south of Detroit. Harvest Spirit experienced some sort of engine failure and started drifting.
âShe ended up sideways in the Livingstone Channel,â said Eric Peace, spokesman for the Westlake, Ohio-based Lake Carriersâ Association.
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WATERTOWN â The St. Lawrence Seaway System, a series of locks, canals, and channels in the U.S. and Canada that stretches for 2,340 miles, is …
Recent events in the Suez Canal drew worldwide attention to the fact that when a cargo vessel goes sideways in a shipping channel, it can cause big problems.
Similar scenarios are not unheard of much closer to home.
On Dec. 2, the freighter Harvest Spirit ran aground in a Detroit River channel, on the Canadian side, about 19 miles south of Detroit. Harvest Spirit experienced some sort of engine failure and started drifting.
âShe ended up sideways in the Livingstone Channel,â said Eric Peace, spokesman for the Westlake, Ohio-based Lake Carriersâ Association.
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