Louisiana Refuses N.Y. Garbage Scow Seeking a Landfill
A barge carrying 3,000 tons of refuse from Islip, N.Y., appears destined to be cast adrift indefinitely as a garbage scow without a landfill.
The same barge, turned away from North Carolina last month, headed through the Gulf of Mexico Thursday bound for New Orleans, but Louisiana environmental officials have also refused to accept the waste.
The president of National Waste Contractors, the New York firm disposing of the garbage, has informed the state Department of Environmental Quality he has nowhere else to dump the load but in a privately owned landfill in Avondale, southwest of New Orleans.
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