Re: Re:Contaminated soil.......

**David King l*@yahoo.com**

Interesting - now we will begin to build a body of
folk-data about what plants will grow in contaminated
soil - along the same lines as to what weeds growing
in a field tell about the nutrients in that soil (or
lack of nutrients).  We already have some
folk-evidence that point towards plants that are
effacious on certain contaminants - it's a shame that
we'll need to build this body of information, but I
believe we, those who till the land, will HAVE to be
the ones to do it.  

I'll put it on my calendar for Wednesday next.  You?

david

--- "Libby J. Goldstein" <libby@igc.org> wrote:

> > Friends,
> >
> > Key to all of this will be knowing what cocktail
> of toxins pollutes 
> > each
> > particular stretch of Katrina flooded land.  The
> chemical, 
> > bio-chemical work on
> > identifying what will remain as the floods recede
> is pretty daunting.
> >
> Well, we already know that EPA is not going to give
> anyone that 
> information. They haven't even been testing for
> petrochemicals. So is 
> there anything we or folk that we know can do about
> getting the 
> information?
> 
> Libby
> 
> 
>
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