Hurricane Katrina Case Study

Environmental Disasters: Katrina’s Troubled Waters; The Rescue Worker’s Dilemma
Group 9: Andrew Balaoro, Arika Karki, Justin Lucas,Yvanna Mendoza-Beck, Diego Quintero
California State University, East Bay
HSC 3200
Winter 2015

Table of Contents
Executive summary……………………………………………………………………………….2
Introduction……….………………………………………………………………………………2
Results………….…………………………………………………………………………………3
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………...4
Implementation Plan………………………………………………………………………………5
References…………………………………………………………………………………………6

Introduction Hurricane Katrina was one of the biggest environmental disasters in the United States. Patty was one of the many people who volunteered to be rescue workers. The rescue workers drove around on the boat providing a helping hand to people in need. Patty, along with other rescue workers, would get out of the boat into the …show more content…
Blood lead is the commonly accepted method for determining exposure and comparison to communities that were exposed to this chemical. According to the EPA guidelines for soil lead is 400mg/kg in bare soil where children play around in and 1,200 mg/kg in soil around the areas where they do not play in. For the children of New Orleans, below a median of 100 mg/kg in soil the median blood lead response is steep, with an overall increase of 1.4µg/dl per 100mg/kg. Above 300 mg/kg, the blood lead exposure response slope to soil lead flexes to 0.32 µg/dl per 100 mg/kg. With these levels of lead around the areas of New Orleans, a study was conducted by Richard Campanella. He was identifying each of the lead levels in the communities and around New York. Campanella found out that, when compared to the children of New Orleans, the children of Syracuse, New York, have a remarkably similar blood level exposure in response to the soil lead in their

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