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Comment: Uranium mining anywhere with flooding will wash out the tailing ponds, flood the mine, keep the uranium ban,
By Amanda Peterson Beadle on Aug 30, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Flooding in Vermont caused by Hurricane Irene
The remnants of Hurricane Irene have passed over the East Coast, but rivers swollen by the storm’s extreme rain continue to endanger homes and lives from New Jersey to Vermont with the worst flooding in decades (and after the region had seen the wettest August on record even before Irene). Washed-out bridges and roads from the torrential rains cut off access to 11 towns in Vermont.
But once the floodwaters recede, the damage will go beyond rebuilding homes, bridges, and roads destroyed by extreme rains. Residents in the flood-soaked areas will have to worry about sewage, pesticides, and other contaminants that were left behind by the flood or that were swept into East Coast waterways. One New York apartment building has already been evacuated because oil carried by the floodwaters contaminated several apartments. The U.S. Geological Survey sent crews to follow the storm and test for bacteria and chemicals in rivers, according to the New York Times:
“What typically happens is that you get a significant amount of rainfall that leads to a significant amount of runoff,” said Charles Crawford, sampling coordinator for the agency.
Contaminated water is frequently a problem following flooding from heavy rains or storm surge from a massive hurricane.
After Hurricane Katrina, tests found extremely high levels of sewage bacteria in water samples. When thunderstorms deluged Nashville in May 2010, health officials warned residents to treat all floodwater as if it had sewage in it because of reports about overflowing sewage systems.
Floodwaters from the Mississippi River in May swept pesticides and fertilizer down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico, and this highly polluted water swamped 3 million acres of farmland along the
Read more:
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/08/30/307966/hurricane-irene-floodwaters-contamination/
Comment: Uranium mining anywhere with flooding will wash out the tailing ponds, flood the mine, keep the uranium ban,
By Amanda Peterson Beadle on Aug 30, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Flooding in Vermont caused by Hurricane Irene
The remnants of Hurricane Irene have passed over the East Coast, but rivers swollen by the storm’s extreme rain continue to endanger homes and lives from New Jersey to Vermont with the worst flooding in decades (and after the region had seen the wettest August on record even before Irene). Washed-out bridges and roads from the torrential rains cut off access to 11 towns in Vermont.
But once the floodwaters recede, the damage will go beyond rebuilding homes, bridges, and roads destroyed by extreme rains. Residents in the flood-soaked areas will have to worry about sewage, pesticides, and other contaminants that were left behind by the flood or that were swept into East Coast waterways. One New York apartment building has already been evacuated because oil carried by the floodwaters contaminated several apartments. The U.S. Geological Survey sent crews to follow the storm and test for bacteria and chemicals in rivers, according to the New York Times:
“What typically happens is that you get a significant amount of rainfall that leads to a significant amount of runoff,” said Charles Crawford, sampling coordinator for the agency.
Contaminated water is frequently a problem following flooding from heavy rains or storm surge from a massive hurricane.
After Hurricane Katrina, tests found extremely high levels of sewage bacteria in water samples. When thunderstorms deluged Nashville in May 2010, health officials warned residents to treat all floodwater as if it had sewage in it because of reports about overflowing sewage systems.
Floodwaters from the Mississippi River in May swept pesticides and fertilizer down the river and into the Gulf of Mexico, and this highly polluted water swamped 3 million acres of farmland along the
Read more:
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/08/30/307966/hurricane-irene-floodwaters-contamination/
