Draining New Orleans taints lake - baltimoresun.com

Pontchartrain the Punching Bag

While news today focuses on the contamination of the waters flooding New Orleans, other stories focus on the fact that now the water is being pumped untreated in large quantities into Lake Pontchartrain. The article linked below is the only one that I've seen that calls into question this policy.

I don't see why they can't at least set up straw bale filters at the output or float absorbent pads on the top of the water. I worked at an oil refinery 25 years ago. When there was a spill into a creek, within 24 hours we at least had these remedial measures in place. The emergency measures cleaned up about 90% of the pollution. The last 10% was a bitch, and much of it was (unfortunately) left to mother nature to remediate.



Draining New Orleans taints lake - baltimoresun.com: "Pontchartrain"