What's in the New Orleans Water? Testing Turns Up a Spectrum of Waste and Contaminants

ABC ^ | 9/6/05 | Dr. Nancy Snyderman

[finnman69]

Yummy

[finnman69]

I suppose it's inevitable in the enxt few days Greenpeace and other environmental groups will call for this water to be decontaminated and not just punmped out of the city into the canals that eventually find their way to the gulf.

[Amalie]

NO, they will be quiet until it is really bad, then...just blame BUSH....

[caver]

Heck, did they test the Mississippi River before the hurricane? It probably had the same level of contaminants or worse.

[okie01]

I suppose it's inevitable in the enxt few days Greenpeace and other environmental groups will call for this water to be decontaminated and not just punmped out of the city into the canals that eventually find their way to the gulf.

At which point, bureaucratic inaction will tend to work in New Orleans' favor...

[oyez]

I saw these people wading in the foul water and thought of one thing, trench foot. When these fool hardy people that won't leave get infections and gangrene, who's paying for the treatment? If they have amputations, who is going pay for their disability?

The only reason I can see that they stay in the barrio is they have ulterior motives, like helping themselves to abandoned personal property. If they have criminal intent I see no reason to offer treatment for their diseases.

[konaice]

Louisiana's chief environmental officer today said there is no evidence yet that the New Orleans waterways are a toxic wasteland. He acknowledged the presence of fecal matter, fuel, oil and other contaminants, but said testing had not detected traces of truly toxic substances like pesticides and metals.

This is what caver mentioned on another thread.

Its sewage people, that's about all, probably because the Settlement ponds at the local turd binder were flooded. This stuff has a habit of self-degrading in less than a month.

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

Um, they were expecting Perrier?

[LilDarlin]

I'm given to understand Emerill's restaurant contaminated most of the Warehouse district!

[manwiththehands]

I suppose it's inevitable in the enxt few days Greenpeace and other environmental groups will call for this water to be decontaminated and not just punmped out of the city into the canals that eventually find their way to the gulf.

I'm counting on it.

[evets]

Lake Nagin

[cwb]

Anyone seen Sean Penn lately? I hope he's still down there helping out:)

[Amelia]

Are we supposed to be surprised?

[Amelia]

Are we supposed to be surprised?

[null and void]

Or, perhaps to keep others from helping themselves to their property.

[DTogo]

The city was built by the French, now it smells like the French.

[conserv13]

I suppose it's inevitable in the enxt few days Greenpeace and other environmental groups will call for this water to be decontaminated and not just punmped out of the city into the canals that eventually find their way to the gulf.

Well, think about it. We get a lot of our seafood from the gulf. In addition to the oil and natural gas that is leaking into it, now we have extra feces, chemicals, and bodies to put in there?

Actually, the crabs will feed on the dead bodies, so next years crab harvest should be great!

[skikvt]

Maybe you thought only European countries had mineral water, but let me tell you: we bottle some pretty special water right here in America.

[finnman69]

Bottled at the source with the natural bubbling waters of Lake Nagin.

[finnman69]

Look at the color of this stuff