$366M for New Bedford harbor cleanup!
 

NEW BEDFORD — A long-departed manufacturing company will pay $366 million to clean the PCB-laden harbor here, the largest cash settlement for a single site in the history of the federal Superfund program, government officials announced Wednesday.

The payment by South Carolina-based AVX Corp., whose predecessor, Aerovox Corp., operated an electrical component plant, will mean the harbor could be clean within seven years — a dramatically shorter timeline than the 40 years or more federal officials once predicted.

The cleanup will reverse decades of embarrassment for the fabled fishing city: Although New Bedford is one of the nation’s top fishing ports, eating even a single fish from its harbor has been prohibited because the water is considered so poisoned with polychlorinated biphenyls, a probable human carcinogen.

i cannot imagine that some amount of this poison is not escaping new bedford in subtle ways ...for example ....migratory fish passing thru eating poisoned baitfish....:confused:

regardless of that theory it is most excellent news

Cripes, if that's what they were going to do, why didn't they just they move operations to China where they can pollute with impunity?
They could have polluted all they wanted to, and used the 366 mil for 1.8 billion hours of Chinese wages. How stupid.

The settlement is for dumping into the harbor done during the 50's.