Comments on: Long awaited Hudson River dredging starts soon https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/10/long-awaited-hudson-river-dred/ Mon, 11 May 2009 20:06:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: khan https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/10/long-awaited-hudson-river-dred/#comment-535622 Mon, 11 May 2009 20:06:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/10/long-awaited-hudson-river-dred/#comment-535622 I grew up swimming in the Hudson. I recall it being dredged (south of Albany) in the mid 60s.

]]> By: Egaeus https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/10/long-awaited-hudson-river-dred/#comment-535621 Mon, 11 May 2009 01:19:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/10/long-awaited-hudson-river-dred/#comment-535621 Blockquotes!

Seriously, I couldn’t quite tell what was going on until I read the article, and read your blog post about 3 times. I didn’t know where the AP story, and your story began. I first thought Mathis was telling the story, and that Mathis had died 6 months later.

]]> By: cleek https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/05/10/long-awaited-hudson-river-dred/#comment-535620 Sun, 10 May 2009 21:56:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/05/10/long-awaited-hudson-river-dred/#comment-535620 i grew up in Hudson Falls, and spent many summers fishing right above the HF dam. that’s about 800 yards downstream from where a giant Ciba-Geigy plant used to run, making all kinds of wonderful dyes and paints, and a couple of miles downstream from all kinds of paper mills in Glens Falls.

this was a few hundred yards upstream from the GE plants, luckily.

swim in that water? never mind the fact that the current there was strong enough that it would snap my fishing poles if i cast into the wrong part of the stream, it smelled like chemicals and i’d routinely catch fish covered in lesions.

everyone in that area knows what PCBs smell like.

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