[StBernard] house on corinne drive has Mercury poisioningthroughout.....please read

[Westley Annis]

I've just got to ask about the legal ramifications here.  Have they gotten
any legal information as to the contractor (and or seller) being responsible
since they should have had the house checked?  As you said, the contractor
or whoever mentioned his "machine must have been malfunctioning."  I'm
thinking he's got to be liable.

John 

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Cat,

You would not believe what's going on here.  Ray's daughter rebuilt their
house in Chalmette on Corinne Dr.  They pulled out all the walls
and floors, but apparently did nothing with the attic.   They moved in
about 4 months ago.  It was about 4 blocks from the Murphy Oil refinery and
was in the direct path of the spill.  Ray's grandson has been sick a lot
lately and in and out of the doctor's office and Children's Hospital.  They
couldn't figure out what was wrong with him - he's only two years old and he
had so many tests.  He would run a high fever and had this bad rash all over
him.  The whole family has been sick off and on for the past several months
and in and out of doctors' offices.
Ray's daughter last week realized when she was dusting her television, these
"beads" of stuff that she wiped was dusting would pulverize and burst into a
thousand different little pieces.  When she walked into the house one day
earlier this week, she saw a bunch of these little beads on the floor.  

The baby's fever had gone down and they let him go home this past week-end,
still not knowing what he had and they were going to continue to run all
sorts of tests.  They had several doctors all working on this and
consultants and the family was really getting concerned.  Then she mentioned
to one of the doctors earlier this week about the substance in
her house that she recently saw and thought was mercury.   The it was as
if the lightbulb came on........they tested the baby for mercury poisoning
and sure enough, that's what he has!!!

As we speak, the EPA (actually EPA sub-contractors) are at the house now.
Actual representatives of EPA are coming out tomorrow.  They showed up in
their haz-mat clothes and masks and before they went into the house, their
meter was beeping.  It registered 11,000 particles on the front step and the
maximum accepted particles per unit (or whatever) is 10,000.  The contractor
told Ray's wife that maybe their machine was
mal-functioning.    Ray (on our pushing) e-mailed WWL-TV to tell them
what was happening because it seemed like the Parish had been  trying to
ignore the problem.  But when the media showed up, the subs clammed up.
They told Ray's wife they would lose their jobs if they spoke to the media.
But one of the guys told her the kids' room registered 44,000 particles and
no one should ever have lived in that house.  Every room had at least that
much and everyone thinks it was coming from the air ducts.  When they tested
the attic, they told her it was absolutely unbelievable how much mercury was
in the attic and it was AIR-BORNE.  He said if anyone had gone into the
attic and breathed that air in, it would have been extremely dangerous
(whatever that means).

They were told they absolutely could not live in that house so they threw
some clothes and stuff in the trunk of her car and were going to
go to her sisters' FEMA trailer.   One of the contractors ran his little
monitor over her clothes and they are contaminated.  She had to unpack the
trunk.  This is absolutely horrible.  They've got all this new furniture
they recently bought and all their clothes and the kids'
clothes and toys are all contaminated.

This has been a horrible year for this family.  I believe this is the
daughter that recently lost a baby and Ray's wife's sister was found dead
(by another daughter) in her FEMA trailer in Chalmette about six
weeks ago.  (she died of a drug over-dose).   Two weeks later, her
brother died (he lived out of state somewhere).  Say a prayer for this
family.  I've never seen so many bad things happen to one family like what
they've endured this year alone.  (not to mention what Katrina did to all of
them).