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Hurricane Katrina & Rita Direct Relief Updates
Direct Relief Update March 3.
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Letter from Marylee, Oct 17.
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Update from Marylee, Oct. 3.
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Thank You Letter from Marylee Sept. 22.
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Letter from Marylee, Sept. 16.
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Letter from Marylee, Sept. 12.
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Letter from Marylee, Sept. 7.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 05 June 2007 )
 
Hurricane Katrina & Rita Information Page
IMPORTANT FACTS FOR RE-ENTRY
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Dallas Morning News article by Randy Loftis titled Extreme cleanup on tap in New Orleans.
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DEQ post hurricane information - powerpoint presentation about Katrina impacts and clean-up.
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LEAN joins with the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health and other organizations from around the nation to request safe working conditions during the cleanup and to insist that environmental regulations not be relaxed by Congress.
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Letter describing conditions in Plaquemines Parish, an area south of New Orleans which is still inaccessible.
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LEAN's relief efforts are cited in this weeks Time Magazine.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 05 June 2007 )
 
Hurricane Katrina & Rita Environmental Data

Results of EPA soil sampling around the Thompson Hayward site on Feruary 17, 2006
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Sediment and water data collected at the Agricultural Street Landfill in New Orleans.
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Sediment data collected at United Methodist Church Properities in the New Orleans area.
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DEQ's new webpage with sediment sampling maps by zip code.
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Data from the Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coasts.
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Data from samples taken from Vermillion Parish.
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Data from samples taken from areas impacted by Hurricane Rita.
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Data from samples taken from areas impacted by the New Orleans flood.
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Data from samples taken from the Holly Grove area of New Orleans.
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Data from samples taken near the levee breaches.
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Recent LEAN presentation on the New Orleans sediment problem.
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Excellent Dallas Morning News interactive graph showing the location of toxic sediment in New Orleans.
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Data From Subra Co.
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Read Advocate Story.
Air and Water Data from EPA and LDEQ
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EPA Data Searchable by Zip Code Do a Search
Last Updated ( Monday, 04 June 2007 )
 
LEAN Testifies Before U.S. Senate Committee

The issue was "WASTE MANAGEMENT OF HURRICANE DEBRIS" and was presented by Wilma Subra to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on February 26, 2007.

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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 13 June 2007 )
 
Gentilly Landfill Information
All information pertaining to the Gentilly Landfill dispute.
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 20 February 2007 )
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