Union Pacific has begun the process of testing soil surrounding the former Houston Wood Preserving site in Fifth Ward.
The crew, overseen by officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, started at the Boyce-Dorian Park Wednesday morning.
“We’ll be doing this through September,” U.S. E.P.A. Project Manager Casey Luckett Snyder. “We’re starting in parks and schools. We’re going to the Hester House tomorrow, the community center and following that we’ll be doing soil sampling in residential yards.”
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