It's a sunny day. The air is crisp with the feeling of spring around the corner.
Boats sail the river.
To the passengers on the boat the river may look like any other river but what lurks under the bottom sediments separates the Hudson from every other river. Between the 1940's and 1977, when PCBs were banned, GE had been legally dumping the PCBs in the Hudson River. Since then, there has been much concern from both residents living along the Hudson and environmental advocacy groups, about the health effects and risks of these alleged carcinogens. The domineering factor is that there are no conclusive studies that have been done to prove that PCBs can cause cancer within humans. The federal government's ban on eating shad and other limitations on eating fish have caused even more of a concern over the health effects on humans.