This year people all along the Hudson River are celebrating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic journey of discovery. Over the summer, I got to spend some time along the Hudson and learned that the river is in a state of recovery from years of pollution and damage.

I produced a radio piece for National Radio Project’s Making Contact about the controversial General Electric dredging to remove PCB contamination in the Hudson River, one of the largest national Superfund environmental cleanups in history.

Check out the entire show at Swimming Upstream: Can Our Rivers Be Saved?

There you will find some of the contact information for the organizations featured in the piece, as well as more information on PCBs in the Hudson.

Also, a great article called “Hitching Rides Up Henry Hudson’s River” came out in this week’s New York Times about getting up the Hudson by kayak, tall ship, yacht, and Lincoln Town Car (hey, not fair!).