Toxic ash from a former trash incineration plant was found buried on a portion of the site last year, although the Housing Authority has long maintained the soil, which is fine where The Pointe at Bayou Bend apartments were built.
Investigators from multiple federal agencies spent the day collecting soil samples at the site of a controversial low-income housing project in the Second Ward.
Toxic ash from a former trash incineration plant was found buried on a portion of the site last year, although the Housing Authority has long maintained the soil is fine, which The Pointe at Bayou Bend apartments were built.Jones says he began suffering health problems when construction began on the housing complex.
In a 2021 application for state funding, the Housing Authority didn't check a box acknowledging environmental hazards on the 26-acre site."That's not where you put housing on something like that. You have to clean it up first, then you put housing," Tony Padua, a local developer who's long been opposed to the housing project, said.
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