[CPEO-BIF] Eastern New Orleans - "A Safe Way Back Home"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Groups warn about arsenic in soil
They tout cleanup at 10 homes as model


By Leslie Williams
March 24, 2006
New Orleans Times-Picayune

The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, in partnership with 
United Steelworkers of America, on Thursday launched a $35,000 project 
to remove from 10 eastern New Orleans homes what the center's director, 
Beverly Wright, called "contaminated soils" left by Hurricane Katrina's 
flood.

The project, dubbed "A Safe Way Back Home," will remove 2 to 3 inches of 
existing soil, replace it and resod the yards of the homes, which 
include Wright's residence. Wright called the project a model for the 
rest of the city.

Tom Harris, administrator of the Louisiana Department of Environmental 
Quality's environmental technology division, called it "completely 
unnecessary."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf?/base/library-98/114318345187520.xml?nola


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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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