{"id":6146,"date":"2012-03-13T14:03:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T18:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/?p=6146"},"modified":"2012-03-14T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T20:59:28","slug":"ge-completes-vernal-pool-survey-results-say-pcb-remediation-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeatnews.org\/BeatTeam\/ge-completes-vernal-pool-survey-results-say-pcb-remediation-works\/","title":{"rendered":"GE Completes Vernal Pool Survey. Results Say PCB Remediation Works."},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of its campaign to evade its responsibility to clean its PCBs from the Housatonic River, GE has been arguing for years that any remediation of vernal pools would be devastating to such fragile habitats.\u00a0 BEAT responded to GE\u2019s warnings with rebuttals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last spring and summer, GE conducted a survey<\/a> of the one vernal pool that has so far been cleaned of PCBs.\u00a0 The study received oversight from Stantec Consulting Services and Weston Solutions Inc.\u00a0 Weston oversaw the survey on behalf of the EPA.\u00a0 Here is what they found in that pool along the river in Pittsfield.<\/p>\n

Contrary to GE\u2019s prediction that remediation would create something just short of a moonscape, the vernal pool is well vegetated and quite green.\u00a0 Here is one of GE\u2019s photos from their study. (captions are BEAT’s)<\/p>\n

\"Vernal<\/a>

Vernal pool after being cleaned of PCBs<\/p><\/div>\n

The expert that GE hired as part of its campaign, Professor Robert Brooks from Pennsylvania, voiced a warning that amphibians in the pools would leave and not come back if we disrupted their lives by digging out contaminated sediments. \u00a0\u201cAnd what\u2019s important is that all of these species come back to the same ponds to breed. They have a lot of site fidelity. So if the ponds are not here or if they\u2019re removed for a few years there\u2019s no place for them to go and those generations will perish.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It seems Professor Brooks was wrong.\u00a0 The GE survey found more than 100 wood frog egg masses in the pool.\u00a0 Studies conducted in the pre-remediation years of 1998 and 2003 found 18 egg masses and about 30 egg masses.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s study also found over 1,000 wood frog tadpoles, some of them beginning to metamorphose into adults.\u00a0 Here are some GE photos. (captions are BEAT’s)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

One wood frog egg mass<\/p><\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Wood<\/a>

Wood frog tadpoles<\/p><\/div>\n

In June, workers from Weston Solutions found wood frog tadpoles that were metamorphosing and others that were fully metamorphosed into adults.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

A metamorphosed wood frog<\/p><\/div>\n

BEAT would like to point out that the greatest threat to wildlife in and along the Housatonic River comes, not from remediation efforts, but from PCBs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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