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Report Criticizes Use Of New Orleans Landfill - WDSU.com
 POSTED: 11:49 am CST February 10, 2006 UPDATED: 4:56 pm CST February 10, 2006

NEW ORLEANS -- A new report says the Federal Emergency Management Agency faces a "high risk of future environmental liability" if it continues to use the controversial Old Gentilly Landfill in New Orleans. The report, commissioned by FEMA from a private company, questions the safety and stability of the landfill that is receiving the biggest share of the debris left by Hurricane Katrina.  Full Story

Landfill dumping to slow under deal - But new proposed site is near wildlife refuge
Thursday, February 23, 2006 By Gordon Russell - Staff writer

The dumping of construction debris at a recently reopened city-owned landfill in eastern New Orleans will be drastically pared, thanks to a series of developments this week. But plans are progressing to open a new construction landfill on a nearby property that abuts the Bayou Sauvage National Wildlife Reserve, a location previously rejected as a landfill site. Full Story

 

 

 

 
     
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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