Housatonic River Initiative

Ax Yard-Plumes

Ax yard where GE workers maintain they were told to ax barrels of toxic chemicals and let them drain into the floodplain and Housatonic River

Barrel site newell Street aerial

Barrel site at Newell Street where HRI trained a video camera as they started to cap the site. At this time, (Dec.05) 350 barrels have been removed

contaminated oxbows

These are oxbows of the river that were filled in with contaminated material

Dorothy AmosChildrens Park

Dorothy Amos Childrens Park where transformers were junked in a old junk yard and the drains wereopened to let PCB ladened oil contaminate the area and adjacent West Branch of the Housatonic

Fasce Place-Grossmans

Fasce Place and the old Grossmans Building where PCB plumes traveled under the buildings and leaked into the cellars

Goodrich Pond

Contaminated Goodrich Pond. It took four years of advocacy to get the agencies to test the Lake and another number of years to get them to post fish consumption advisorys. HRI put up our own mock signs with two headed ducks to force then to post the lake

Hill78aerial

Hill 78 and Hill 71 the toxic dumps 50 feet from Allendale Elementary School which was itself a toxic dump until we won the clean up of the school in 1999.The entire playground was excavated

imploded bldWoodlawn

Imploded building where GE workers maintain the building was filled with barrels and contaminated equipment before GE buried it into the ground.

LymanSt.parkinglot

Lyman Street Parking Lot where underground plumes flow towards the Housatonic River with Pcb levels as high as 200,000 ppm. GE worker maintain it was a barrel site.