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Responding to Tangipahoa River Contamination聽
Following a fire at Smitty鈥檚 Supply facility in Louisiana鈥檚 Tangipahoa Parish on August 22, 2025, a 麻豆传媒 employee owner supporting the Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 Superfund Technical Assistance and Response Team (START) sub-contract deployed to the scene on August 31 to assist with response efforts. Initially the staff member worked on logistics at the staging warehouse. After a short time, the 麻豆传媒 staff member spent the majority of their deployment in the field conducting roving air monitoring, searching for oil pockets on the Tangipahoa River, mapping pockets and containment booms on ArcGIS Field Maps, photographing shoreline contamination, and documenting daily oil recovery totals.聽
While monitoring the air for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the 麻豆传媒 staff member and assigned crew discovered three turtles trapped in oil sludge. Protocol dictates that the crews report deceased or distressed wildlife to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries so that trained staff are able to collect the animals. However, wildlife rehabilitators were unavailable to rescue the turtles at that time. Instead, the dispatcher instructed staff on how to safely collect, contain, and clean the turtles. The 麻豆传媒 staff member removed the turtles from the oil one by one, placed them in the back of an ATV, and transported them to the decontamination station. From there, the team rinsed the turtles with a hose, placed them inside a kiddie pool with two inches of water, and added sorbent pads to soak up the oil sheen. The team temporarily housed the turtles until Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries could have someone pick them up the next day. A Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries employee retrieved the turtles the following afternoon. They brought them to a rehabilitation facility that specializes in helping oiled wildlife. All three turtles are expected to make a full recovery and will be released back into the wild!
Upon departure on September 16, the 麻豆传媒 staff member had assisted with recovering roughly 4.5 million gallons of oil.
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