[CPEO-BIF] EPA hurricane response continues

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hazardous duty
EPA tries for clean sweep of pollutants

By MIKE KELLER
Biloxi Sun Herald (MS)
February 25, 2006

HANCOCK COUNTY - It's just after noon and needleless pines are providing 
little relief from an uncharacteristically powerful February sun, which 
is boiling emergency-response team-members' brains under their white 
hard hats.

They have been deep inside a muggy, forested area north of U.S. 90 in 
Hancock County since early morning, pulling propane and oil tanks like 
hunting trophies back to their pickups on the road. This one team has 
retrieved seven so far, ranging in size from 50 to 250 gallons. Some of 
the tanks have been empty and some have contained cocktails of fuel and 
seawater deposited in them Aug. 29.

This is the aboveground storage-tank recovery unit of the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency's Division A emergency-response team.

Division A is one of three in South Mississippi picking up hazardous 
chemicals from petroleum to parathion dispersed by Katrina.

The divisions, totaling some 60 people, are composed of federal 
contractors, with EPA emergency-response members as crew leaders. They 
come from around the country and rotate into South Mississippi for 
two-week tours. Most come back for several tours.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/13959005.htm

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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
http://www.cpeo.org
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