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Feb. 27, 2025. Boston, MA.
Save the Housatonic Rally. Residents from Lee and western Massachusetts held a rally outside of Faneuil Hall to call on General Electric to clean up the Housatonic River. Concerned citizens, elected officials and state advocacy leaders want a permanent, durable clean-up solutions for the river which GE and Monsanto contaminated for years.
Between 1930 and 1977, GE dumped highly toxic PCBs into the Housatonic River from its Pittsfield plant effectively ruining the waterway for fishing and recreation. GE has proposed dredging approximately 20 percent of the PCBs from the sediment of the river and transport the toxic sludge to a dumpsite in Lee just several hundred feet from the river and over a major aquifer. Instead, the town of Lee and other communities of the Berkshires are asking GE to do the right thing: dredge and transport the toxic sediment to a pre-existing TOSCA facility or find ways it can be bioremediated and destroyed.
© 2025 Marilyn Humphries

Feb. 27, 2025. Boston, MA.
John Rumpler, Environment Massachusetts, Sr. Attorney.
Save the Housatonic Rally. Residents from Lee and western Massachusetts held a rally outside of Faneuil Hall to call on General Electric to clean up the Housatonic River. Concerned citizens, elected officials and state advocacy leaders want a permanent, durable clean-up solutions for the river which GE and Monsanto contaminated for years.
Between 1930 and 1977, GE dumped highly toxic PCBs into the Housatonic River from its Pittsfield plant effectively ruining the waterway for fishing and recreation. GE has proposed dredging approximately 20 percent of the PCBs from the sediment of the river and transport the toxic sludge to a dumpsite in Lee just several hundred feet from the river and over a major aquifer. Instead, the town of Lee and other communities of the Berkshires are asking GE to do the right thing: dredge and transport the toxic sediment to a pre-existing TOSCA facility or find ways it can be bioremediated and destroyed.
© 2025 Marilyn Humphries

Feb. 27, 2025. Boston, MA.
Save the Housatonic Rally. Residents from Lee and western Massachusetts held a rally outside of Faneuil Hall to call on General Electric to clean up the Housatonic River. Concerned citizens, elected officials and state advocacy leaders want a permanent, durable clean-up solutions for the river which GE and Monsanto contaminated for years.
Between 1930 and 1977, GE dumped highly toxic PCBs into the Housatonic River from its Pittsfield plant effectively ruining the waterway for fishing and recreation. GE has proposed dredging approximately 20 percent of the PCBs from the sediment of the river and transport the toxic sludge to a dumpsite in Lee just several hundred feet from the river and over a major aquifer. Instead, the town of Lee and other communities of the Berkshires are asking GE to do the right thing: dredge and transport the toxic sediment to a pre-existing TOSCA facility or find ways it can be bioremediated and destroyed.
© 2025 Marilyn Humphries

Feb. 27, 2025. Boston, MA.
Elizabeth Saunders, Clean water Action, Co-Director.
Save the Housatonic Rally. Residents from Lee and western Massachusetts held a rally outside of Faneuil Hall to call on General Electric to clean up the Housatonic River. Concerned citizens, elected officials and state advocacy leaders want a permanent, durable clean-up solutions for the river which GE and Monsanto contaminated for years.
Between 1930 and 1977, GE dumped highly toxic PCBs into the Housatonic River from its Pittsfield plant effectively ruining the waterway for fishing and recreation. GE has proposed dredging approximately 20 percent of the PCBs from the sediment of the river and transport the toxic sludge to a dumpsite in Lee just several hundred feet from the river and over a major aquifer. Instead, the town of Lee and other communities of the Berkshires are asking GE to do the right thing: dredge and transport the toxic sediment to a pre-existing TOSCA facility or find ways it can be bioremediated and destroyed.
© 2025 Marilyn Humphries

Feb. 27, 2025. Boston, MA.
Leigh Davis, Massachusetts State Representative, 3rd Berkshire District.
Save the Housatonic Rally. Residents from Lee and western Massachusetts held a rally outside of Faneuil Hall to call on General Electric to clean up the Housatonic River. Concerned citizens, elected officials and state advocacy leaders want a permanent, durable clean-up solutions for the river which GE and Monsanto contaminated for years.
Between 1930 and 1977, GE dumped highly toxic PCBs into the Housatonic River from its Pittsfield plant effectively ruining the waterway for fishing and recreation. GE has proposed dredging approximately 20 percent of the PCBs from the sediment of the river and transport the toxic sludge to a dumpsite in Lee just several hundred feet from the river and over a major aquifer. Instead, the town of Lee and other communities of the Berkshires are asking GE to do the right thing: dredge and transport the toxic sediment to a pre-existing TOSCA facility or find ways it can be bioremediated and destroyed.
© 2025 Marilyn Humphries