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"It is 'good news' that the city's scenario did not worsen and metal concentrations are in accordance with other cities of similar size and age."

Rick Ansorge/TN (Sept 19th, 2006)

A report from HealthDay states that while a devastated New Orleans still struggles to recover from Hurricane Katrina, the conclusion of dozens of scientific papers presented by the American Chemical Society say that the city apparently has avoided one of the storm's most-feared consequences -- "toxic soup" contamination of it's soil.

"Overall, there wasn't an acute health threat," said Dr. Maureen Lichtveld, chairwoman of environmental health sciences at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans, adding that from an environmental health perspective, it's probably safe for most residents to return and rebuild their damaged homes.

"It is 'good news' that the city's scenario did not worsen and metal concentrations are in accordance with other cities of similar size and age," said Michael T. Abel of Texas Tech University. "However, it should be noted that many of the soils/sediments had concentrations of lead and arsenic that exceeded human health soil screening levels set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency."

Abel was reportedly surprised to find that post-Katrina contamination wasn't worse. "With the innumerable number of sources for toxic compounds being submerged by floodwaters, such as industrial facilities, gas stations, vehicles and so on, I expected to at least see a dispersion from high concentrations of contaminants to low concentrations across New Orleans," he said.

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