The Hudson River cleanup project yesterday entered its third year of dredging.
As during the 2011 season, three to four dredges will be working at any given time, 24 hours a day and six days a week, until early November, according to Mark Behan, a spokesman for General Electric Co .
Behan said the weather has cooperated so far this year. Last year, because of major snowpack runoff from the Adirondacks and a rainy summer, the dredging effort got off to a late start and was slowed at times by high water from rainy weather.
In the coming season, dredging will concentrate on a two-mile section of the river south of the village of Fort Edward and north of Griffin Island, which is in the town of Northumberland, Behan said.
“ We’re essentially picking up where dredging was completed last November, ” Behan said. “ Our goal this season is to remove 350,000 cubic yards of sediment, which is about 400,000 tons.”
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Dredging Today Staff, May 10, 2012; Image: hudsondredging