[CPEO-BIF] Old Gentilly Landfill, New Orleans

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Landfill report sounds alarm
Site could be liability for FEMA, it says 

By Gordon Russell
New Orleans Times-Picayune
February 10, 2006

The federal government could "be exposed to high risk of future
environmental liability" because of its heavy use of the reopened Old
Gentilly Landfill, which may have deficiencies in design and monitoring,
a new report commissioned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency
says. 

The document lends some credence to claims made by environmental groups
that the site, which is owned by the city of New Orleans and was
reopened as a landfill for construction and demolition debris shortly
after Hurricane Katrina, could turn into a toxic and costly ecological
catastrophe along the lines of the old Agriculture Street landfill. 

After Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans in 1965, city officials dumped and
burned storm-related debris atop the former landfill there. It was later
named a Superfund site, a designation reserved for the country's most
contaminated areas. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1139554869131400.xml

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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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