In the '70s and early '80s, earthen pits on the 165-acre site in Houma were used to store oily waste and oilfield drilling mud. Brenda Cook, who evaluated the site for the EPA, tells The Courier (http://tinyurl.com/k3dvnfh ) the pits may contain some 30,000 cubic yards of hazardous material but do n
Date: Sep 19, 2014
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Former Houma shipyard now on Superfund cleanup list
hen pits on the 165-acre site, off Industrial Boulevard in Houma, were used to store oily waste and oilfield drilling mud. They may contain some 30,000 cubic yards of hazardous material but do not represent the extent of the contamination, according to Brenda Cook, who evaluated the site for the EPA.