PCBs in the Housatonic River

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:5516591

MacDonald, B I

In the mid-nineteen seventies, the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection discovered that PCBs are present in the surficial sediments in the Housatonic River in Connecticut, and also in fish taken from the river. The cost of removing PCBs from the river is prohibitively expensive. The authors believe the experiment of causing Woods Pond Dam to become a sediment trap, and measuring the rate of sediment buildup over several years, is worth doing. They see this step - which might be considered a form of ''source control,'' as the only practical way to attempt to reduce down river transport of PCBs. The authors are optimistic that bacteriological degradation of PCBs can be developed, in time, as an effective PCB destruction technique.

• OSTI ID: 5516591
• Report Number(s): CONF-860826-
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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