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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <div class="caption-full">A gate at the U.S. Oil Recovery Superfund site is shown Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, in Pasadena, Texas, where three tanks once used to store toxic waste were flooded during Hurricane Harvey. The Environmental Protection Agency says it has found no evidence that toxins washed off the site, but is still assessing damage.  (AP Photo)<a class="more-caption"> less</a></div>
                            <div class="caption-truncated">A gate at the U.S. Oil Recovery Superfund site is shown Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, in Pasadena, Texas, where three tanks once used to store toxic waste were flooded during Hurricane Harvey. The Environmental<a class="more-caption"> ... more</a></div>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <div class="caption-full">Contaminants from the flooded San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund Site site pose a potential health risk.</div>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <div class="caption-full"><p>1. Falcon Refinery - Ingleside TX</p><p>2.Brine Service, Corpus Christi</p><p>3. Bailey Waste Disposal, Bridge City</p><p>4. French Ltd - Crosby</p><p>5. Geneva Industries/Furhmannn Energy - Houston (Hobby area)</p><p>6. Gulfoco Marine - Freeport</p><p>7. Highland Acid Pit - Highlands</p><p>8. Malone Services -Texas City</p><p>9. US Oil Recovery - Pasadena</p><p>10. Patrick Bayou-Deer Park</p><p>11. Petro-Chemical Systems-Liberty</p><p>12. Triangle Chemical-Bridge City</p><p>13. San Jacinto Waste Pits -Highlands/Channelview</p><a class="more-caption"> less</a></div>
                            <div class="caption-truncated"><p>1. Falcon Refinery - Ingleside TX</p>
<p>2.Brine Service, Corpus Christi</p>
<p>3. Bailey Waste Disposal, Bridge City</p>
<p>4. French Ltd - Crosby</p>
<p>5. Geneva Industries/Furhmannn Energy - Houston (Hobby area)</p>
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <div class="caption-full"><p>This site in Texas city - a reclamation storage and disposal facility for industrial and municipal waste is one of 13 the EPA says was flooded and may have been damaged in Hurricane Harvey.</p></div>
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                            <div class="caption-truncated"><p>This superfund site is upstream from the San Jacinto Waste Pits superfund site in another area that has flooded in Hurricane Harvey.</p></div>
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            <p>The Environmental Protection Agency late Thursday confirmed the fears of citizens and environmental activists that Hurricane Harvey flooding spawned a leak in one of the most dangerous and vulnerable of Houston's Superfund sites - the San Jacinto Waste Pits.</p>

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            <p>In a study of the site, Sam Brody, a Texas A &amp; M professor had predicted that a powerful flood like that caused by Harvey could cause a rupture that would spill toxins into the San Jacinto River with the same power as a loaded gun. A resident of the badly flooded riverbottom near Channelview had taken a drone video that appeared to show damage.</p>

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            <p>But the EPA and spokesmen for the company overseeing the clean-up had previously claimed that there appeared to be no rupture of an armored cap at the site.</p>

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            <p>A sample from one of the fourteen areas tested at the Superfund site found dioxins at 70,000 ng/kg, the agency said on Thursday. The recommended clean up level from the EPA for the site is 30 ng/kg.</p>

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            <p><strong>AFTER HARVEY: <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/After-Harvey-EPA-administrator-vows-bold-12218929.php" target="_blank">EPA chief vows bold response</a></strong></p>

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            <p>EPA now has ordered both International Paper and Industrial Maintenance Corporation to conduct supplemental sampling to make sure the exposed waste material is isolated.&nbsp;</p>

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            <p>Harris County assistant county attorney Rock Owens, who has sued over past problems at the pits.<br>said: "The latest breach in the cap discussed in the EPA's press release is proof positive that a cap won't work. During Harvey the cap failed again and dioxin was once more exposed to the River. With the EPA scheduled to announce the final remedy  (or ROD) in just a few weeks we hope this latest incident finally puts this matter to rest. The dioxin must come out!"</p>

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            <p>Jackie Young, who grew up in the nearby Highlands and is founder of a grass-roots group of activists called Texas Health and Environment Alliance, expressed alarm that "unprecedented concentrations of highly toxic dioxin have been found uncontained in the river. "</p>

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            <p>"Anyone who is under the impression that the temporary cap on the Pits remained intact through Harvey, is seriously misinformed," Young added. "The scary part about this is we have no way of knowing where all the contaminated material was carried by Harvey's floodwaters. Just imagine if we'd received storm surge; the community would've received a double dose of poison- waste carried north, then flushed south towards Galveston Bay. "</p>

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            <p>The pits were used through the 1960s and 1970s and originally were located on river's west bank. But over time, the site has been repeatedly flooded. The pits were capped in 2011.</p>

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            <p>Hot-spots of cancer-causing dioxin, a byproduct of paper-making, previously have been found in a series of studies of the sediments in the San Jacinto River and in the Galveston Bay downstream, according to research conducted by the University of Houston.</p>

    
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