Hudson River PCBs Alternative Drinking Water Supplies - Upstate N.Y.
In order to maintain clean drinking water for Upstate New York communities whose system had long been polluted by a General Electric manufacturing plant, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was forced to look elsewhere.
The $10 million Hudson River PCBs Alternative Drinking Water Supplies project brought potable water from Troy, N.Y. to Waterford and Halfmoon and a carbon filtration system to Stillwater – all in New York – to ensure residents had clean drinking water while crews dredged the Hudson River to remove 1.3-million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).