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WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 4

New Windsor Town Board , Town Hall , 555 Union Ave ., New Windsor .

THURSDAY , JANUARY 5

Newburgh City Council Work Session , 6 p . m . City Hall , 83 Broadway .

Mid Hudson Times , Wednesday , January 4 , 2017

The City of Newburgh Recreation Department , We Are Newburgh and Unusual Suspects delivered Christmas Cheer to families in the city . A bus was filled with gifts for the City of Newburgh children with Santa on board . Seven bicycles were generously donated by a young lady , Schuyler Creary , to bless the community . Hot meals were also delivered to over 100 + families at every stop by Anthony Denizard and family and Visconti Bus Service . This year ’ s Holiday Fill A Bus is co-sponsored by Catholic Charities , Newburgh Ministry , endless donations and volunteers that made this event successful .

Photos by Bob McCormick

MONDAY , JANUARY 9

Good Will Fire District Organizational meeting . 7:30 p . m . Barton Chevrolet , 600 Auto Park Place , Newburgh Newburgh City Council meeting . 7 p . m . City Hall , 83 Broadway .

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discharged into the Hudson River from GE manufacturing plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls . Classified as “ probable human carcinogens ,” the PCBs settled into the sediment in the river and along the shoreline . A 200-mile span of the river , from Hudson Falls to New York City , was designated a Superfund site in 1984 .

The dredging , conducted by GE , began in 2009 and ended in 2016 . However , the DEC says the job is not done . “ DEC determined that high concentrations of PCBs remain in fish in portions of the Hudson River resulting in human health and ecological risks in excess of EPA ’ s acceptable risk range ,” the agency stated in a press release sent with the report last month .

Moreover , the DEC declares it will finish the cleanup if the EPA won ’ t . “ Should EPA fail to implement a more robust sediment sampling plan by the spring of 2017 , DEC will step in and do it … EPA has failed to recognize the importance of supporting environmental decisions with sound science .”

Seggos demanded attention be given to the Lower Hudson River , from Troy to New York City . “ Additionally , EPA has largely ignored PCB contamination of the Lower Hudson River ,” he wrote .

Data from the dredging project shows PCB-contaminated fish in the Lower Hudson River are “ primarily controlled by elevated PCB concentrations from local sediment and that these concentrations are driven by past PCB deposition attributed to GE discharges ,” Seggos wrote .

The City of Poughkeepsie , the Dutchess County Water and Wastewater Authority , the Village of Rhinebeck , Castle Point Medical Center and the Highland and Port Ewen Water Districts obtain at least a portion of their potable water directly from the Hudson River , the DEC points out .

The DEC further states , “ The primary health risk associated with the ( cleanup ) site is the accumulation of PCBs in the human body through eating contaminated fish .”

When providing a basis for action in 2002 , the EPA explained , “ the excess cancer risk and non-cancer health hazards associated with human ingestion of fish , as well as the ecological risks associated with ingestion of fish by birds , fish and mammals , are above acceptable levels under baseline conditions .”

The state Department of Health recommends people eat none of the fish from the Upper Hudson River , and that children under the age of 15 and women of child-bearing age eat no fish from the Hudson River whatsoever . The agency also advises the general population to limit consumption of most species of fish caught south of Troy .

To learn more about the Hudson River clean-up project , visit Epa . gov / hudson / cleanup . html .