Nancy Eve Cohen / NEPM Originally published on May 7, 2021 10:32 am General Electric and the EPA have responded to an appeal of the agency's plan to clean up the rest of the Housatonic River. So far, the first two miles south of the former GE plant in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, have been cleaned up. The plan for the rest of the Housatonic calls for a PCB disposal site near the river in Lee. The appeal, filed by the Housatonic River Initiative and Housatonic Environmental Action League, includes a geological report of the disposal site, describing it as a “textbook example of where not to locate a landfill.” The report describes the sediments as highly permeable, which would allow PCBs to migrate.