[StBernard] The Advocate Excerpt

[Westley Annis]

....A storage tank on the Murphy Oil Refinery in Meraux collapsed during
Katrina and about 1,700 St. Bernard Parish homes were contaminated. The oil
company is working on cleaning up the area, Johnson said.

Murphy has taken about 1,500 samples and EPA has independently analyzed
about 10 percent of them.

Many samples show levels of oil products that exceed safe levels for
residential soils, he said.

He and Frumkin reiterated that residents returning to their homes should
avoid direct contact with oil-contaminated sediments and should wear
protective clothing. Children and pets should not be allowed into the area
as they are more likely to be harmed by any contamination.

EPA Region 6 Administrator Richard Greene said he thinks some homeowners
around the Murphy refinery will want to rebuild, but he said he doesn't know
whether that will be reasonable or allowable.

"We do not have answers today," Greene said. "We expect Murphy to be
responsible" and clean up the contamination to meet standards, he said.
....

Full story:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/111105/new_probes001.shtml

EPA Test Results:
http://www.epa.gov/katrina/testresults/#murphy