EPA's desk-jockeys not on scene of toxic waste sites flooded by Harvey

HIGHLANDS, Texas -- As Dwight Chandler sipped beer and swept out the thick muck caked inside his devastated home, he worried whether Harvey's floodwaters had also washed in pollution from the old acid pit just a couple blocks away.
Long a center of the nation's petrochemical industry, the Houston metro area has more than a dozen such Superfund sites, designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as being among America's most intensely contaminated places. Many are now flooded, with the risk that waters were stirring dangerous sediment.
The Highlands Acid Pit site near Chandler's home was filled in the 1950s with toxic sludge and sulfuric acid from oil and gas operations. Though 22,000 cubic yards of hazardous waste and soil were excavated from the acid pits in the 1980s, the site is still considered a potential threat to groundwater, and EPA maintains monitoring wells there.
When he was growing up in Highlands, Chandler, now 62, said he and his friends used to swim in the by-then abandoned pit.

EPA's desk-jockeys not on scene of toxic waste sites flooded by Harvey Ap-17244855709369

EPA's desk-jockeys not on scene of toxic waste sites flooded by Harvey Ap-17244855709369

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EPA's desk-jockeys not on scene of toxic waste sites flooded by Harvey

EPA's desk-jockeys not on scene of toxic waste sites flooded by Harvey

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