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Toxic Time Bomb: Katrina Environmental Impact

Posted by: Michael Dudley

8 September 2005 - 8:00am

Sewage, toxic chemicals and decaying corpses will have an immense environmental impact not only on New Orleans, but on the Gulf of Mexico as well.

"Toxicologists and public health experts warned yesterday that pumping billions of gallons of contaminated water from the streets of New Orleans back into the Gulf of Mexico - the only viable option if the city is ever to return to even a semblance of its former self -would have a crippling effect on marine and animal life, compromise the wetlands that form the first line of resistance to future hurricanes, and carry deleterious consequences for human health throughout the region."

Full Story: After Katrina: The Toxic Timebomb
Source: Common Dreams, September 7, 2005
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