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Could industrial waste threaten Houma-Thibodaux's drinking water? Here's what's being proposed


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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