SC judge praises action on contamination cleanup

The Associated Press

A federal judge is optimistic about plans to start cleaning contamination in a river in northwest South Carolina.

The Greenville News reported Monday that U.S. District Judge G. Ross Anderson says he has hope for plans to deal with sediment in Twelve Mile River. Anderson has set a hearing Tuesday in Anderson to review why nothing had been done about the 2006 PCB cleanup-related settlement.

Joe Ferguson with Schlumberger Technology Corp. says officials plan to put the sediment in secure, temporary storage so work can start to remove a dam on the river.

The removal of two dams on the river is designed to allow fresh sediment to flow into Hartwell Lake and cover the PCB-contamination.

The contamination came from a capacitor manufacturing plant in Pickens that closed in 1977.

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