Why is Hudson River so dirty?
The Hudson River is the thirty-third most polluted river in the United States. Contaminants such as PCB’s (Polychlorinated biphenyl’s) and DDT are present in the Hudson River. Two GE facilities alone contaminated over 200 miles of the river from Hudson Falls to the New York Harbor. It has been declared as a superfund site. GE was guilty of dumping more than one million pounds of PCB’s for 30 years. Some of the fish were said to be deformed and abnormal.
