Underwater "Love Canal" Toxic landfil located under NOLA floodwaters

[Freedomfried]

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Worthington_Peter/2005/09/05/1202432.html

Despite the overwhelming international coverage of Hurricane Katrina's lethal attack on southern U.S. states, it is the current issue of Solid Waste & Recycling magazine that unearthed an environmental hazard that has the potential of being an underwater Love Canal.


Something called the Agriculture Street Landfill (ASL) is located on a 95-acre site in central New Orleans.


It is registered as a "Superfund site" (whatever that is) on the federal government's national priorities list of highly contaminated sites requiring cleanup and containment. But nothing has been done.

Instead of removing the mass of toxic waste 50 years ago, the site was covered with clean soil and houses and a school were built on top of it.

[gmoney]

1. That's some bad mojo...

who knows WHAT is going to bubble up? Scary shit...

[bobbieinok]

2. isn't there an ongoing discussion of toxic wastes dumped in poor areas??