HooRWA State of the River Conference

This year’s Hoosic River Watershed Association’s State of the River Conference will take place in the Fellowship Hall of the Williamstown Congregational Church on Saturday, November 2, from 9:30 am to 12 noon.  The main focus will be PCBs in the Hoosic River.
Local and regional news are filled with stories of polychlorinated bi-phenols (PCBs) present in the sediments and within the aquatic food chain of the Housatonic and Hudson Rivers and the clean ups planned or underway to remove them.  PCBs are also present in the Hoosic River.
Williams College chemistry professors David Richardson and Jay Thoman, along with students Amanda Schott and Austin Paul, have analyzed crawfish taken from the Hoosic River and most recently from the Green River and North Branch in Massachusetts.
Professors Richardson and Thoman and Mr. Paul will report on their research findings and on other PCB studies going back to 1991.
The Church is located at 906 Main Street, at the intersection of Main Street (Route 2) and Chapin Hall Drive, in Williamstown, MA.