Mountains of debris may remain for years (Enviro-nazi meltdown in 3...2...1...)

The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. ^ | Fri, Sep. 09, 2005 | S. Heather Duncan

[va4me]

I saw something yeseterday that part of New Orleans sits on a toxic dump, and that the flood may cause those chemicals to leach. The dump is covered by three feet of top soil.

It's going to be ugly there for a long time.

[You Dirty Rats]

Somehow Europe cleaned up after WWII.

[keithtoo]

Nonsense. One thing Mississippi definitely has is a bunch of topsoil.

They can dig a pit and fill and cover and fill and cover until they have a ski slope in southern Mississippi with enough methane to power a county.

[WestTexasWend]

MS ping, please.

[Enterprise]

Said Mayor Nagin: "Naw Awlans is an awful mess. I want FEMA to round up 500 workers and send their asses down to clean it up."

[hombre_sincero]

Big piles of petrochemical soaked trash burns real good

Considering how much BIO-Hazard is mixed in? It's the best option. It would still cause less pollution that China does in one day.

Did anyone see the interview with CDC? When asked if breathing the dust in the air is dangerous, he hemmed and hawde and changed the subject quickly.

[Bommer]

South Mississippi counties are scrambling to find space for the mountains of garbage left behind by Hurricane Katrina,

Its called New Orleans. Its already a bowl waiting to be filled up to be above sea level!

[kaehurowing]

It's evident New Orleans has now become a federally-protected wetland. How can they drain it without a Section 404 permit?

[samadams2000]

Its called a bomb-fire people. Its not that tough.

[sionnsar]

Stacked in a football field, the debris would tower two and one-half to three and one-half miles high.

Ummm.... might I recommend against doing this?

*\;-)

[sionnsar]

"South Mississippi counties are scrambling to find space for the mountains of garbage left behind by Hurricane Katrina,"
It's called New Orleans. It's already a bowl waiting to be filled up to be above sea level!

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner!

[JoeSixPack1]

Incinerators-r-us.

[TexanToTheCore]

Five gallons of diesel in a bug sprayer, a box of kitchen matches and the whole detritus problem goes away in 3 days.


Diesel, the rancher's friend.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Solution: Burn it all.

[muawiyah]

Europe cleaned up what it could clean up after WWII. There are still places leftover from WWI that are pretty dangerous.

Downtown Dusseldorf has this beautiful park in the middle of town where all the streetcar lines come together. There are large trees there. I talked to an old Rad who told me about the work that went into blowing holes in the ground big enough to transplant a nice tree from somewhere.

The ground under the grass in the park is "hard" ~ and the old downtown ends rather abruptly just like something very nasty had happened in that park.

Let's say the Europeans pretty well "hide" WWII.

[spunkets]

"saw something yeseterday that part of New Orleans sits on a toxic dump, and that the flood may cause those chemicals to leach."

No more so than when it rains. The rain water is then pumped into Lake Pontchartrian.

[SE Mom]

That sounds like a sane solution. They won't do it.

Why?

Will there be "fumes"?

[spunkets]

Sell it as soveniers, antiques, historical relics, on eBay.

[spunkets]

""fumes"?"

Asbestos particles, dioxins, an nasty aromatics to start the list.