GE dredging plans for the Hudson upset some upstate residents . . .

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by Jorge FitZ-Gibbon and Greg Clary
The Journal News
Sunday, June 4, 2006

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FORT EDWARD, N.Y. . . The little red house has been home to John and Hazel Thompson since they can remember — Hazel was born there and John moved in after serving in World War II. The Champlain Canal has always flowed sleepily through their backyard, and beyond it lie acres of cornfields and woodlands sloping gently away from the far bank.

Not for long.

The General Electric Co. will build a 110-acre industrial city behind the Thompson house for the largest dredging project in U.S. history to remove toxic PCBs that flow down to the Lower Hudson Valley.

"I'm not anxious for it," said John Thompson, 89, a retired country store proprietor. "I know we're going to get a lot of noise out of it. As it is now, if there's a Dumpster truck parked over on the side of the road across the canal, you can hear them over there."

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