From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 21 Nov 2005 21:40:29 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] New Orleans' Old Gentilly Landfill |
Landfill's reopening is raising new stink By Gordon Russell New Orleans Times-Picayune November 20, 2005 Since its reopening six weeks ago after a hiatus of nearly two decades, the Old Gentilly Landfill in eastern New Orleans has quickly become one of the area's busiest landfills, with as much as 100,000 cubic yards of debris arriving on some days. It has been a surprising resurgence for a landfill that sits atop an old city waste site built in the years before environmental regulation and one that still does not meet some basic state requirements. Reopened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Old Gentilly is back on line despite the concerns of two U.S. senators - David Vitter, R-La., and James Inhofe, R-Okla., chairman of the Senate's top environmental committee - who said they fear that reopening landfills that fall short of modern standards could create an ecological nightmare. They also wondered why Old Gentilly would be reopened given the relative abundance of other landfills in the New Orleans area. Those landfills meet tougher environmental regulations, and most charge lower fees than Old Gentilly. ... For the entire article, see http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_11_20.html -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brownfields | |
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