[CPEO-BIF] Gulf Coast Debris

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Most storm debris to stay on Gulf Coast

By Chris Joyner
Jackson Clarion-Ledger (MS)
October 30, 2005

KILN - Hurricane Katrina left Mississippi with 42 million cubic yards of 
debris - enough to fill an NFL stadium 18 times over.

When the collection is finished, most of that debris will stay in the 
Mississippi Gulf Coast, disposed of in the dozens of sites given special 
emergency permits by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.

Three-fourths of the debris from the Aug. 29 storm is concentrated in 
the coastal counties. Contractors are hauling fallen trees and bits of 
destroyed homes and their wrecked contents to sites where the material 
is sorted and incinerated, recycled or buried.

Much of the work is being done by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 
which was contracted to remove debris from all of the coastal counties 
except Harrison.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051030/NEWS0110/510300376&SearchID=73225057967064

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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
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