Just over six years ago, the gates of the Old Gentilly Landfill in eastern New Orleans swung open, and with New Orleans in ruins, it quickly became the region's busiest dump. It was situated amid wetlands and atop an old city landfill that accepted all manner of waste, and environmental groups were aghast.
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Environmentalists had what might seem like an unusual ally in their efforts to expose Old Gentilly's flaw: The owners of the River Birch landfill in Waggaman, who stood to see their business increase dramatically if dumping at Old Gentilly were stopped or significantly curtailed. River Birch's owners, Jim Ward and Fred Heebe, are now at the center of a sprawling federal investigation into alleged influence-peddling, though neither one has been charged.
Hoping to head off another Agriculture Street, the environmentalists, led by the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, took their case to court. Their lawsuits led to settlements that slowed down the pace of dumping at Old Gentilly and required the landfill to take various other measures to guard against ground and surface water contamination and the possible compromising of a nearby levee.
The landfill, according to the state Department of Environmental Quality, became perhaps the most closely watched construction and demolition debris dump in the state.
Now, six years on, the landfill is still open, though it's taking in about 85 percent less waste each day than it was in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Though some environmental groups, such as the Sierra Club, still see Old Gentilly's existence as a mistake, the ecological apocalypse that some feared in 2005 has not come to pass.Provides treatment for Wholesale Rustic For Kitchen,
The original Old Gentilly landfill, which took everything from household trash to medical waste to car batteries, opened in 1960 and closed in 1986, four years after the state first adopted rules regulating landfills.
The state Department of Natural Resources ordered it capped with three feet of impermeable clay.
Between 1985 and 2004, the cash-strapped city earned repeated citations from the DEQ for its slow pace in completing that task.Welcome to the premier industrial Wholesale Magic Tile For Floor resource In 2002, the city applied for a state permit to open a construction and demolition landfill atop the old landfill, called "piggybacking," to help cover the cost of closing the final section of the old dump.
In December 2004, DEQ issued a permit for the debris landfill, and the city signed a contract with AMID/Metro Partnership LLC to operate it, guaranteeing the joint venture 97 percent of the proceeds.
When Katrina hit in August 2005, the state still had not given the go-ahead to begin accepting waste.
Among other shortcomings, Old Gentilly's operators had not completed construction of berms and ditches to contain and manage runoff. They also hadn't capped the last 17 acres of the old landfill that remained uncovered. And the site still needed fencing, and signs showing what wastes could be accepted.
It had an uneasy feeling of deja vu,Buy Wholesale Rustic porcelain For Wall From China Manufacturers, chinese antique porcelain items on eBay they said: After Hurricane Betsy, New Orleans reopened the Agriculture Street Landfill,American Standard's Wholesale Super Black Polished Tiles For Floor collection offers models to accommodate a variety of sink citing the need to dump a lot of trash quickly. Over the next two decades,These Wholesale Bulati Polished For Countertops From China Manufacturers are a complete collection of every model available city and federal officials built a neighborhood and a school on top of that landfill, only to have it declared a Superfund site in the late 1990s - putting the city on the losing end of a multimillion-dollar state court judgment it still hasn't paid, and leaving the federal Environmental Protection Agency with a $42 million clean-up bill.
Environmentalists had what might seem like an unusual ally in their efforts to expose Old Gentilly's flaw: The owners of the River Birch landfill in Waggaman, who stood to see their business increase dramatically if dumping at Old Gentilly were stopped or significantly curtailed. River Birch's owners, Jim Ward and Fred Heebe, are now at the center of a sprawling federal investigation into alleged influence-peddling, though neither one has been charged.
Hoping to head off another Agriculture Street, the environmentalists, led by the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, took their case to court. Their lawsuits led to settlements that slowed down the pace of dumping at Old Gentilly and required the landfill to take various other measures to guard against ground and surface water contamination and the possible compromising of a nearby levee.
The landfill, according to the state Department of Environmental Quality, became perhaps the most closely watched construction and demolition debris dump in the state.
Now, six years on, the landfill is still open, though it's taking in about 85 percent less waste each day than it was in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Though some environmental groups, such as the Sierra Club, still see Old Gentilly's existence as a mistake, the ecological apocalypse that some feared in 2005 has not come to pass.Provides treatment for Wholesale Rustic For Kitchen,
The original Old Gentilly landfill, which took everything from household trash to medical waste to car batteries, opened in 1960 and closed in 1986, four years after the state first adopted rules regulating landfills.
The state Department of Natural Resources ordered it capped with three feet of impermeable clay.
Between 1985 and 2004, the cash-strapped city earned repeated citations from the DEQ for its slow pace in completing that task.Welcome to the premier industrial Wholesale Magic Tile For Floor resource In 2002, the city applied for a state permit to open a construction and demolition landfill atop the old landfill, called "piggybacking," to help cover the cost of closing the final section of the old dump.
In December 2004, DEQ issued a permit for the debris landfill, and the city signed a contract with AMID/Metro Partnership LLC to operate it, guaranteeing the joint venture 97 percent of the proceeds.
When Katrina hit in August 2005, the state still had not given the go-ahead to begin accepting waste.
Among other shortcomings, Old Gentilly's operators had not completed construction of berms and ditches to contain and manage runoff. They also hadn't capped the last 17 acres of the old landfill that remained uncovered. And the site still needed fencing, and signs showing what wastes could be accepted.
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