NBC Newsのインスタグラム(nbcnews) - 9月28日 09時02分
Barrett, Texas, a historically Black town founded in 1889, shares a wooded area with the hazardous waste French Limited Superfund site. That toxic dump was built so close to the Barrett family homestead that, as a young man, Fred Barrett could hear the rumble of tractor-trailers hauling chemical waste, including carcinogens, down the Gulf Pump Road to a foul pond.
Like the San Jacinto Waste Pits, another hazardous waste site, the French Limited site was also inundated by Hurricane Harvey in 2017, leading Barrett, 67, and his neighbors to worry that its contaminants had spread. The EPA did not report any leakage, but he and other residents wondered what the floodwaters could have carried offsite.
“What happened back there?” Barrett said. “It was Harvey that made it seem more crucial. We wanted to know: What contaminants are still there — and where is it going once it got out of its banks? Who’s watching the chicken coop?”
Those questions highlight the perils pose by the nation’s industrial wastelands as they are increasingly battered by extreme weather worsened by climate change.
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