Letter: The proposed Lee PCB dump is an act of savagery
To the editor:In 1978, under orders from Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE), General Electric hired Gerald M. Fri...
November 23, 2022
5:36 PM
To the editor:In 1978, under orders from Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE), General Electric hired Gerald M. Friedman of RPI to design and implement a grid of groundwater test wells around the GE Transformer Plant.Massachusetts DEQE issued the order in response to reports of cancer deaths in clusters in the Lakewood neighborhood of Pittsfield. Friedman was selected because he had recently completed the official groundwater study for New York State's "Love Canal" disaster.