Newspaper clip showing EPA workers collecting soil in Gordon Plaza neighborhood.

ID: 5416 ~ Source: Image courtesy of UNO Special Collections. ~ Creator: Times-Picayune ~ Date: September 15, 1993.

This file appears in: Gordon Plaza Deemed EPA Superfund Site

Newspaper clip showing EPA workers collecting soil in Gordon Plaza neighborhood.

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…