[CPEO-BIF] New Orleans dumping

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From wetlands to wastelands
Dumping has reached new height since storm

By Gordon Russell
New Orleans Times-Picayune (LA)
March 25, 2007

The dump truck rumbles into a driveway off Almonaster Avenue, hangs a 
right and then slowly backs up toward a pile of concrete rubble spilling 
into an eastern New Orleans swamp.

Rid of its load -- perhaps 20 cubic yards of shattered housing slabs -- 
the truck chugs back toward the city to refill. A bulldozer will smooth 
out the pile, pushing debris deeper into the surrounding wetlands.

It's a scene that's repeated dozens, if not hundreds, of times every day 
in post-Katrina New Orleans, and it's noteworthy for two reasons: The 
debris is being unloaded in broad daylight at an unauthorized dump that 
is actually a business operating in plain sight. More surprisingly, 
perhaps, the scene is unfolding in front of a surveillance camera that 
was recently installed by the state Department of Environmental Quality 
to crack down on flagrant violations.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-7/117480271520550.xml&coll=1&thispage=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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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