Abstract |
This Phase 1 Dredge Area Delineation (DAD) Report has been prepared on behalf of the General Electric Company (GE) as part of the remedial design to implement the Record of Decision (ROD; USEPA 2002a) for the Hudson River PCBs Site issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) in February 2002. The principal goal of this report is to provide a description of the dredge area delineation process and to present the delineation of areas meeting the criteria for removal in accordance with the requirements imposed by USEPA. This report provides detailed descriptions of: The logic used for dredge area delineation; The data analyses used to characterize the river sediments and the associated PCBs; The rationale used for targeting specific sediment areas; and The methodology for establishing the horizontal and vertical boundaries of those the areas meeting the criteria for removal, volume of contaminated sediments, and PCB inventory within those areas. |