[CPEO-BIF] New Orlean-area sludge

["lsiegel@cpeo.org" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Safety of Post-Hurricane Sludge Is Disputed
Government Has Minimized Public Health Threat of Toxic Contaminants in New
Orleans, Group Says

By Spencer S. Hsu and Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post 
February 23, 2006

Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina deposited arsenic, lead and
petrochemical compounds across greater New Orleans in amounts that are
potentially dangerous to human health despite federal and state assurances
that the sludge is safe, according to a new study based on Environmental
Protection Agency data.

The study, which was conducted by the Natural Resources Defense Council and
is being released today, urges the government to clean up the waste before
permitting young children to return to the struggling city.

The NRDC report, which was obtained by The Washington Post, comes as a new
internal report of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service suggests that as much
as 350,000 gallons of hazardous materials are threatening the Sabine
National Wildlife Refuge in Louisiana as a result of Hurricane Rita.



...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/22/AR2006022202
205.html?sub=AR

For NRDC's original report and data, go to
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/katrinadata/contents.asp

-- 
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
http://www.cpeo.org


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