E.P.A. Gains FEMA Mission Assignment for Greensburg, Kansas, Tornado Response

(Kansas City, Kan., May 11, 2007) - The E.P.A. has been tasked by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove oil, hazardous materials, household hazardous waste and white goods, in response to the Greensburg, Kan., tornado.

E.P.A. will be collecting these items at curbside starting today. An E.P.A. flier to be handed out to residents lists items that will be picked up including refrigerators, washers and dryers, compressed gas cylinders and propane cylinders, batteries, paint and other household chemicals. There is no charge for this service.

E.P.A. on-scene coordinators have been in Greensburg since May five to address fuel releases, chlorine cylinders, anhydrous ammonia tanks, propane tanks, and other hazardous materials. E.P.A. also deployed the mobile command post from its Region seven office in Kansas City, Kan. The command post is near the courthouse building.

The ASPECT (Airborne Spectral Photometric Environmental Collection Technology) plane flew over the path of debris so that E.P.A. could determine the location of hazardous materials.

There are currently no comments for this story. Be the first to add a comment!
Click here to add a comment about this story.