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Could industrial waste threaten Houma-Thibodaux s drinking water? Here s what s being proposed
David Mitchell
GEISMAR A Louisiana fertilizer plant says it can treat contaminated and highly acidic wastewater to drinking-water standards and wants a state permit to discharge it into the Mississippi River the drinking water source for Houma-Thibodaux, New Orleans and other downriver communities.
Since the 1960s, fertilizer manufacturer PCS Nitrogen and its predecessors have piled up a 180-foot-tall mound of a chalky white chemical waste byproduct known as phosphogypsum on a remote highway corner in Ascension and Iberville parishes.
The waste is loaded with nutrients, trace amounts of radioactive elements, heavy metals and other contaminants. And it holds 300 acres of lakes that contain an estimated 90 million to 100 million gallons of highly acidic water filled with those same contaminants.
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Plant seeks permit to treat, discharge acidic wastewater
April 26, 2021 GMT
GEISMAR, La. (AP) A Louisiana fertilizer plant says it can treat contaminated and highly acidic wastewater to drinking-water standards, and wants a state permit to discharge treated water into the Mississippi River the drinking water source for New Orleans and other downriver communities.
PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer LP has shut down a production line that, since the 1960s, has piled up a 180-foot-tall (55-meter) heap of phosphogypsum at its plant in Geismar. That pile is topped by lakes holding an estimated 90 million to 100 million gallons (340.7 million to 378.5 million liters) of wastewater enough to fill two-thirds of the vast building where NASA assembled moon rockets.
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Oct 10, 2019 @ 21:39
“It is a crime against nature,” Jody Meche, president of the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, said while scanning the Bayou Bridge pipeline right-of-way on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin, the country’s largest river swamp in a designated National Heritage Area.
His voice trembled with rage as he told me that he was speaking for all the animals living in the basin that can’t speak for themselves.
“The Bayou Bridge pipeline has left a dam across the Atchafalaya Basin affecting the fisheries, the birds, the otters, minks, raccoons, and nutria,” Meche said.
On September 27, I joined Meche and Dean Wilson, executive director of the conservation group Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, on a monitoring trip to the west side of the pipeline. It was their first trip along the pipeline’s construction path, which only recently became visible after unusually high water levels in the basin receded.
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