Housatonic river-Lenox-Ma
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gemeloj
N 42° 20.966 W 073° 14.636
18T E 644637 N 4690067
Housatonic river!
Waymark Code: WMM6EB
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 07/30/2014
Views: 10
Since the early 1900s, GE operated a large-scale industrial facility including the manufacturing and servicing of power transformers, defense and aerospace (ordnance) and plastics, and used numerous industrial chemicals at its Pittsfield facility. From 1932 through 1977, General Electric manufactured and serviced electrical transformers containing PCBs. Years of PCB and industrial chemical use, and improper disposal, led to extensive contamination around Pittsfield, MA as well as down the entire length of the Housatonic River.
The Housatonic River is approximately 150 miles from its headwaters on the East Branch in Hinsdale, MA and flows through Connecticut into Long Island Sound.
The two remaining cleanup actions outside the river (Unkamet Brook and the Floodplain Residential Properties Downstream of the Confluence) are expected to be completed by the end of 2016.
ID: EPA New England
Site Name: GE Pittsfield/Housatonic River
Link to Site: [Web Link]
Additional Parking: Not Listed
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