Katrina's environmental toll

[Seeking Serenity]

I'm concerned about the effects of Katrina on our environment. I'm watching all of that brown goo being pumped through those huge pipes. Where is it going? What's in it? What's the environmental impact?

I've heard that the Superdome is now deemed a biohazard. Who's going to clean that up? Where will all of the refuse go? It can't be safe.

I'm frettin'.

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. They're tearing down the Superdome...

but no idea where any of that stuff is going.

I've been worrying about that myself.
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[rsmith6621]

7. Bury it on a Ranch in Crawford

[Seeking Serenity]

9. Yes, but what I've heard about the stuff inside

it has to go somewhere. Where? What will be done to/with it? I mean, biohazard.

[fudge stripe cookays]

10. I know.

They'll probably bury it out in Nevada or something.

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[niyad]

2. but the EPA said it was OKAY to pump all that toxic gumbo back--as to the

hazards, they are only speculating that it will basically kill most of the gulf, for starters.

[pitohui]

3. would you prefer we stayed underwater forever

sometimes you don't have any good choices

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. No.

There are no good choices. That is the bottom line about this.

I hope that you are all right. And safe.

[Lindacooks]

5. If FEMA still had its act together, as it did in the 1990s under

President Clinton, and the EPA still protected the environment instead of enabling polluters, there would be, first of all, strengthened levees, and second, a plan to clean the water, at least somewhat, before pumping it back into Pontchatrain and the Gulf.

This is yet another disaster caused directly by Bush and his inept minions.

[slor]

6. I would like to see the toxic...

gumbo get processed through Thermal Depolymerization.

[Seeking Serenity]

8. I don't want this to come across as callous,

and forgive me if it does, but since NO is still being evacuated anyway, couldn't the flood goo have been left a bit to clean it up before it gets pumped into the Gulf of Mexico? That can't be good for gulf's ecosystem.