Shannon Rainey, longtime Gordon Plaza resident, discusses the medical implications of living on the toxic soil of the Gordon Plaza neighborhood.

ID: 5392 ~ Source: Video courtesy of the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at the University of New Orleans. ~ Creator: Oral history interview with Shannon Rainey conducted by Lones Gagnard, Vickie Lacoste, Ella McIntire, and Daniel Lamplugh.

This file appears in: Gordon Plaza Deemed EPA Superfund Site

Gordon Plaza Deemed EPA Superfund Site

By Kathryn O'Dwyer, Shelby Loyacano & Ella McIntire

By 1985, just four years after the first residents moved into Gordon Plaza, state environmentalists recommended testing soil and air in the Gordon Plaza subdivision to determine the extent of hazardous wastes underneath the houses that were built…