Federal environmental officials say they believe the amount of contaminated sediment that will need to be dredged from the Hudson River will be “significantly higher” than initially expected. The federal Environmental Protection Agency has released a preliminary evaluation of last year’s dredging of PCB “hot spots” north of Albany. The dredging was a test run for the far larger Phase 2 of the cleanup, which regulators want to start in 2011.

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