BACKGROUND Concerns over increased reports of physical health symptoms thought to be related to floodwater exposure among New Orleans firefighters prompted a health hazard evaluation of firefighters following Hurricane Katrina. METHODS A questionnaire assessing health symptoms possibly related to the response to Hurricane Katrina was administered to all New Orleans Fire Department (NOFD) pers...

When Hurricane Katrina swept into Louisiana and Mississippi, it took more than a thousand lives, displaced more than a million people, and exposed an incompetent government response plan. But that was apparently not enough bad news for some folks to report. It was time to turn to one of our era’s favorite bogeymen: toxic sludge. “The dank and putrid floodwaters choking this oncegracious city ar...

small precipitation with temporal and spatial variation of rainfall is the main responsible factors on flood occurrence in arid and semi arid regions. floods in their regions usually contain high concentration of sediments which when they are deposited on the surface of lands, they change the properties of soils of the area. in this research, the effect of floodwater spreading on physic-chemica...

Anaerobic soil conditions resulting from flooding often enhance release of phosphorus (P) to overlying water. Enhanced P release is well documented for flooded acidic soils; however, there is little information for flooded alkaline soils. We examined the effect of flooding and anaerobic conditions on P mobilization using 12 alkaline soils from Manitoba that were either unamended or amended with...

presence and activity of denitrifiers. These factors have The effect of NO3--N diffusion on the order and rate of debeen studied bv several workers, for example, Bremner and nitrification reaction was studied in IS soils from various locations in Shaw (1958a, 1958b), Nommik (1956), Patrick (1960), the U.S. The soils were amended with 0.5% rice straw and incubated Broadbent and Clark (1965), and...

The bacterial communities in floodwater, from a rice-planted and an unplanted field were characterized at the beginning (flooding stage) and at the end (harvest stage) of the rice cropping cycle. Most probable number estimations and plate counts of aerobic and anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria and of several metabolic bacterial groups (methanogens, sulfate-reducers, anaerobic sulfur and nonsulfu...

A method for decontamination of animals involved in floodwater disasters

An adequate supply of pure water is absolutely essential to human existence. During floods, water is available in adequate quantity, but the quality is often not suitable for drinking or cooking purposes. The goal of the study was to develop an easier, cheaper and faster technique of water purification. Oxygen ions are well known for their high reactivity. An attempt has been made to use oxygen...

[1] The largest glacier outburst flood (jökulhlaup) ever recorded in Iceland occurred in 1996 and came from subglacial lake Grı́msvötn in Vatnajökull ice cap. Among other noteworthy features, this flood was characterized by an unprecedentedly high lake level prior to flood initiation, extremely rapid linear rise in lake discharge, delay between the onset of lake drainage and floodwater arrival a...

Introduction: Athabasca Vallis (Fig. 1) is the youngest known outflow channel on Mars, dated by crater counting at 2-8 Ma [1,2]. In-channel geomor-phic features indicative of flooding include streamlined forms, longitudinal lineations, and transverse dunes [1,2]. The streamlined forms have been hypothesized to be primarily depositional, i.e. composed of sediment deposited out of the floodwater ...