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Dear Editor: Although the announcement regarding cleanup plans for New Bedford Harbor and the Housatonic River occurred at about the same time this past September, your article (ES&T 1998, 32(23), 536A) incorrectly states that GE is involved at both sites. We are not involved at New Bedford. As for the cost for the program in Pittsfield, we have estimated the settlement package to be in the neighborhood of $150 million (not $200 million), about a third of which is a brownfield cleanup of our former transformer site and an economic redevelopment package for the city of Pittsfield.
noise control and environmental electromagnetic pollution have come into prominence, and research in electromagnetic pollution, including radioactivity, has received increasingly more attention. SHANGGUAN WANGZUO Department of Environmental Science Hangzhou University Hangzhou 31028 P. R. China
DAVID WARSHAW Manager Corporate Communications GE 3135 Easton Turnpike Fairfield, CT 06431
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Menachem Elimelech
Dear Editor: I majored in theoretical physics and am now one of the faculty in the Department of Environmental Science, Hangzhou University, which is located in one of China's most beautiful tourism cities, Hangzhou. Our department subscribes to your magazine. It is my favorite journal, and I usually check it out to read papers published there. To my disappointment, however, most papers in the journal deal with problems related to chemistry, while those concerning physics, like noise control, radioactivity, electromagnetic pollution, and environmental thermodynamics, are rarely found. I wonder whether research works in the aforementioned areas are encouraged to be published. As is well known, problems in areas such as
Correction: The last name of Menachem Elimelech, one of ES&Ts Editorial Advisory Board members, is misspelled underneath his photographic image, which appears in the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology {ES&T 1999 33(1), 39A).
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