[CPEO-BIF] Louisiana DEQ

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Storm cleanup falls to La. DEQ 
Recovery from Katrina's devastation involves homes, cars, cities 

By AMY WOLD
2 the Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)	
October 31, 2005

The scale of the devastation along the coast of Louisiana is staggering.

In the months -- and maybe even years -- to come, state and federal
agencies will be working to remove thousands of houses, hundreds of
thousands of cars and assorted debris that may or may not be destined
for hazardous-waste landfills.

Two months after Hurricane Katrina, the challenges of cleaning
Louisiana's coast stretch into the distance for agencies like the state
Department of Environmental Quality.

There are between 150,000 and 160,000 flood-damaged homes. Many of those
are not habitable and may need to be demolished.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/103105/new_cleanup001.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
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