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			<p>At least one dozen Superfund sites in and around Houston were flooded last month in the days after Harvey&#8217;s record-shattering rains stopped. Associated Press journalists surveyed seven of the flooded sites by boat, vehicle and on foot, including San Jacinto. The EPA said at the time that its personnel had been unable to reach the sites, though they surveyed the locations using aerial photos.</p><p>The San Jacinto River Waste Pits Superfund site is on and around a low-lying island that was home to a paper mill in the 1960s. The site was completely covered with roiling floodwaters when the AP surveyed it on Sept. 1.</p><p>About 16 acres of the site were covered in 2011 with an &#8220;armoured cap&#8221; of fabric and rock intended to contain the contamination until it can be removed as part of a proposed $97 million cleanup plan. The cap was designed to last for up to 100 years, but it has required extensive repairs on at least six occasions in recent years, with sections becoming displaced or going missing.</p><p>In its statement, EPA did not disclose precisely when the damage to the cap from Harvey was first discovered. AP observed a dive team working from a boat over an underwater section of the site on Sept. 13. Workers began using heavy machinery to add layers of rock to the cap the week after the storm.</p>		<p>
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		<p>The AP was not notified about Pruitt&#8217;s visit and was not able to attend or observe, but Pruitt spoke afterward to a local Fox affiliate.</p><p>&#8220;When you have a temporary situation like this, when you take rock and put in on top of a site to secure it, you have a big enough storm, something like this, that could cause a disruption of that rock and a release could occur,&#8221; Pruitt said.</p><p>The San Jacinto River empties into Galveston Bay, where state health officials have long advised against regularly consuming fish and shellfish due to contamination from dioxins and PCBs.</p><p>Elena Craft, a health scientist with the Environmental Defence Fund in Austin, said EPA has been &#8220;woefully inadequate&#8221; in assessing environmental health risks as a result of Harvey. She called the prospect of a breach at San Jacinto a worst-case scenario.</p><p>&#8220;Dioxin is one of the most toxic substances known to man,&#8221; Craft said. &#8220;They were slow to collect any samples, they made inappropriate statements on health risks before having any scientific evidence, and have not provided enough information on risks for anyone within the local communities to make informed health decisions.&#8221;</p>	
		
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