Thanks to the EPA and the Dredgers’ tireless advocacy, the arduous process of removing the 11-foot-deep sludge is finally underway. We paddle past the Fourth Street Turning Basin, the area of the canal beside Whole Foods, where a pilot program spearheaded by the EPA and PRPs (Potentially Responsible Parties) is dredging the bottom and loading the black mayo onto barges. The barges then travel downstream to a spot beneath the Ninth Street Bridge, where it gets dewatered, mixed with concrete, and shipped out to a landfill in Pennsylvania. If the process works, they’ll begin implementing it in other parts of the 1.8-mile waterway starting in 2020. The full clean-up process is expected to take a decade or more to complete.
Pennsylvania, it seems.
>Thanks to the EPA and the Dredgers’ tireless advocacy, the arduous process of removing the 11-foot-deep sludge is finally underway. We paddle past the Fourth Street Turning Basin, the area of the canal beside Whole Foods, where a pilot program spearheaded by the EPA and PRPs (Potentially Responsible Parties) is dredging the bottom and loading the black mayo onto barges. The barges then travel downstream to a spot beneath the Ninth Street Bridge, where it gets dewatered, mixed with concrete, and shipped out to a landfill in Pennsylvania. If the process works, they’ll begin implementing it in other parts of the 1.8-mile waterway starting in 2020. The full clean-up process is expected to take a decade or more to complete.
Pennsylvania, it seems.