Pam Dashiell Quotations

We are getting to something real so we can rebuild the community, not just a plan, but a blueprint.

The state and the feds are failing to meet their obligation to protect the people of New Orleans, plain and simple. As we speak, schools are reopening, and families are returning to the city, struggling to put their lives back together. Public officials need to tell the truth about the contamination, and start an investigation and cleanup immediately.

That is sediment that came from the contaminated industrial canal. The sediments in the industrial canal were absolutely contaminated. Our neighborhood association had a study done (before Katrina) that found all kinds of toxic sediments, heavy metals -- arsenic lead -- far above the standards of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. And post Katrina all of those chemicals were found in the soil.