{"id":4640,"date":"2011-08-22T05:23:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T09:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2011-08-22T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T13:35:11","slug":"morning-read-pcbs-found-in-the-black-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/22\/morning-read-pcbs-found-in-the-black-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  PCBs found in the Black River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on NCPR&#8217;s 8 O&#8217;clock Hour, I talk with Judith Enck &#8212; head of the Environmental Protection Agency in Region 2, which includes the North Country &#8212; about the clean-up of PCBs on the upper Hudson River.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20110822\/NEWS03\/708229953\">Watertown Daily Times is reporting<\/a> that state environment officials are confirming that a &#8220;half mile segment&#8221; of the Black River sediment is contaminated with PCBs.<\/p>\n<p>The pollution occurs in the area around Carthage and West Carthage, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [DEC] letter said the hazardous waste is from \u201cformer industrial  activities.\u201d Throughout the years there have been paper mills along the  river.<\/p>\n<p>The specific part of the river is used for recreational activities and includes residential properties adjacent to the river.<\/p>\n<p>According  to DEC\u2019s letter, \u201cfurther investigation is needed to determine the  extent of site-related contamination and to evaluate potential human  exposures.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The clean-up on the Hudson has been controversial, but is moving forward.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see where this discovery leads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning on NCPR&#8217;s 8 O&#8217;clock Hour, I talk with Judith Enck &#8212; head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[884,878,4788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4641,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}