[CPEO-BIF] Old Gentilly Landfill, New Orleans

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Landfill standards strengthened
Bea raised concerns about levee stability

By Mark Schleifstein
New Orleans Times-Picayune (LA)
November 17, 2006

The stacking of millions of pounds of debris from Hurricane Katrina in 
the city-owned Old Gentilly Landfill in eastern New Orleans will have to 
meet more stringent safety requirements to protect a neighboring 
hurricane levee, officials with the Army Corps of Engineers and state 
Department of Environmental Quality confirmed Thursday.

The agreement could result in increasing FEMA's daily limit for dumping 
construction debris in the landfill, from the current 19,000 cubic yards 
to 50,000 cubic yards.

The decision to increase safety requirements followed concerns raised 
several weeks ago by Robert Bea, an engineering professor at University 
of California, Berkeley, who warned that the waste's additional weight 
could weaken the levee and cause it to fail during another hurricane.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-18/116374673823330.xml&coll=1

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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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