New Orleans area becoming a dumping ground

[Eugene]

Monday, October 31, 2005 · Last updated 1:46 a.m. PT

New Orleans area becoming a dumping ground

By CAIN BURDEAU
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

NEW ORLEANS -- A swampy section of the city is becoming a dumping
ground for paint cans, broken furniture, insulation and whatever else
is in the rubble.

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East of the city's residential neighborhoods lies a large tract of
swamp land that has been turned into an industrial corridor. Even
before Katrina it was besmirched with scrap metal and used parts
yards, rust-colored streams and dead cypress trees.

Making matters worse, environmentalists warn, is that the mounds of
debris from Katrina also are winding up here.

Already, illegal dumping goes on in plain sight. On one road, a pile
of paint cans, telephone poles, biological hazard bags and insulation
reaches several feet high. Some of it has been pushed into the swamp
next to the road.

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Full article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Katrina_Dumping_Ground.html

[ClintonTyree]

1. I'm shocked.........

"I understand that we need to get rid of the waste from the city of New Orleans, but we have to make sure that we are following the environmental laws," said Darryl Malek-Wiley of the Sierra Club's Delta Chapter".

The bush administration has pretty much removed every environmental law in existence to "help" the storm torn area. Well, not just environmental laws, labor laws and every other law that "impedes" the cleanup and reconstruction of New Orleans have been "relaxed" so that there isn't an undue burden put on the poor contractors. :eyes:

New Orleans was never one of the cleanest Cities to begin with, now with the help of the bushies, it's sure to become one giant superfund site that future generations will have to come to terms with. That's just like the bushies though, they've pretty much double mortgaged the future of the entire country for their immediate gain.