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Hudson River Dredging Project De-Watering Plant Upper Hudson River & Champlain Canal - Fort Edward, NY |
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All the dredged up mud and debris is transported by barge to this facility just south of Champlain Canal Lock C-8. There is a beautiful new pier there to accomodate all the barges.
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This pier-side machine sorts debris by size, and allows most of the water to run off.
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An excavator with an extra-long arm is used to unload the mud from the barges, to the screening machine.
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All water from the barges is fed into this treatment plant, where it is cleaned up to drinking water standards, and then piped back into the canal.
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The contaminated solids, with most of the water removed, is loaded into one of several hundred rail cars, and transported to Andrews, Texas, for disposal in a chemical dump.
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Lighthouses - Canal Corp Boats - Tugboats & Trawlers