Yesterday while driving down Earhart Blvd. I came across a demolition which was being performed with no dust mitigation.

The structure was a substantial Church bldg and generated a large amount of dust and debris.

Here is the Church just before demolition.

When I arrived on site yesterday they were well on the way to finished with no water on site to keep the dust particles from drifting out to the surrounding areas.

The contractor claimed he was going to hook up the water hoses but he has none. After about half an hour of discussion the entire crew jumped into their trucks and left the site.

This morning I called the “State DEQ”:http://www.deq.state.la.us/portal/ offices to see what the proper procedure is for determining what precautions should be taken. The State had no permit application on file for this particular property so there is no way to tell what hazard materials were in the many many truckloads that left this site.

This morning when I passed by the site they were back at work this time with water hoses dampening down the site.. One unanswered question is this, if they did not determine the status of contaminants in the structure itself were they just washing all those contaminants into the drainage system and out to the lake?