Wiht help from EPA and NRDC Phase 1 of the long-delayed clean-up of those PCBs has been completed, The Hudson River Clean-up project will take six years, cost over $750 million dollars, and extend down to the southern tip of Manhattan.
Phase 1, the first year of dredging, was designed to address approximately 10 percent of the material to be dredged over the six-year project timeframe. At the end of Phase 1, an estimated 293,000 cy of PCB-contaminated sediment had been removed from the river.
Phase 2 will remove the remaining targeted contaminants and operate for several years.