Fox River dredging wraps for the year

GREEN BAY - A project to cleanup the Fox River has wrapped up for the year.

The fourth season of dredging on the lower Fox River removed 662,000 cubic yards of sediment.

It is all part of efforts to reduce PCBs in the river.

Work in 2012 included dredging in a number of areas between the De Pere dam and the project's processing facility in Green Bay.

This year's dredging operations produced more than 325,000 tons of processed sediment that required hauling nearly 14,000 truckloads to landfills in Calumet County and near Detroit, Michigan. In addition, approximately 33,000 tons of sand was reused as part of the Highway 41 project.

Project managers say work now continues on the design for the dredging, capping and covering operations that are expected to resume in spring as the project continues to move downstream.