[CPEO-BIF] Two articles on New Orleans debris

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup crews tackle Katrina's nasty leftovers 

By Patrick O'Driscoll
USA TODAY
December 12, 2005

NEW ORLEANS - "Do Not Open!!" someone has scrawled on a duct-taped
refrigerator, one of hundreds in ragged rows at the city's Old Gentilly
Landfill. "The Bowels of Hell await you within!!"

Just back from lunch, Chris Robinson takes a Darth Vader breath through
his industrial-strength respirator. With double-gloved hands, he peels
back the doors of another Frigidaire and tips it facedown onto a sheet
of plastic on the muddy ground.

Stinking leftovers and once-frozen meat, gone to rancid mush after 12
weeks without power, slosh at Robinson's feet, spattering foul goop on
his white protective "moon suit" and booties.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-12-11-katrina-crews_x.htm



A BIG PLAYER FOR BIG DEBRIS; 
ROLLIN' OUT KATRINA'S MES

KRIS HUNDLEY
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
December 11, 2005 

NEW ORLEANS  - Seven days a week, hundreds of pickup trucks lumber
through deserted neighborhoods here, picking up soggy drywall, mildewed
carpeting and stinking refrigerators jettisoned from homes flooded by
Hurricane Katrina.

Nearly three months after the storm, the nation's biggest cleanup
continues with a determination fueled by billions of federal dollars.
Orchestrating this huge street-by-street campaign through one hard-hit,
60-square-mile sector of the city - and supervising 650 trucks hauling
an average of 54,000 cubic yards of debris daily - is Phillips & Jordan Inc.

P&J, one of two prime contractors overseeing trash detail in New
Orleans, is a general and specialty contracting company based in
Knoxville, Tenn., with division offices in Zephyrhills.

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For the entire article, see (you may need to cut and past the URL):
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/939961391.html?MAC=419b93e62c7526f92dd7a6093acc3b6d&did=939961391&FMT=FT&FMTS=FT&date=Dec+11%2C+2005&author=KRIS+HUNDLEY&pub=St.+Petersburg+Times&printformat=&desc=A+BIG+PLAYER+FOR+BIG+DEBRIS+%2F%2F+ROLLIN%27+OUT+KATRINA%27S+MESS

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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>
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