[CPEO-BIF] "How badly was the Big Easy polluted? "

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How badly was the Big Easy polluted? 

Anton Caputo
San Antonio Express-News (TX)
February 5, 2006 

NEW ORLEANS - Thomas Rickerson stares at the image of his wife smiling
brightly on her wedding day. 

It's one of the few photographs in his wedding album unfouled by the
crude oil from a nearby holding tank that washed over his neighborhood
after Hurricane Katrina. 

"Look at how beautiful that girl was when I married her. Still is," said
Rickerson, 53, glancing up at his wife, Karen, who is carefully laying
out other rescued photos on the driveway to dry. 

A few miles to the west, in the heart of the Ninth Ward's Press Park
housing project, Emanuel Johnpire, 50, also has rescued his wedding
album from the muck. Here, the floodwaters didn't mix with anything so
visible as black oil. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA020506.01A.Contamination.34ba0e8.html

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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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