Cronin:  "... participate in innovation project ..." (BIRE photo)

BEACON – The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries headquartered at Dennings Point on the Hudson River in Beacon has developed into an educational center for the river.  It will be expanding within a year, said Institute Executive Director John Cronin.

“We will be constructing a research, development and training facility explicitly for the same kind of technology as we deployed in the upper Hudson,” he said. “It will be a place where visiting engineers, graduate students, and others will be able to participate in innovation projects and will be able to test the technology that we will be putting in the river.”

The Beacon Institute recently deployed monitors in the upper Hudson to monitor the PCB cleanup by General Electric.