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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 high...

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 mi...

DeSmog 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,...