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Overflight of Leaking Taylor Wells

On April 10, 2012, Gulf Monitoring Consortium (GMC) conducted an overflight of the Lower Mississippi River Delta looking for oil spills including the ongoing leak at the Taylor Well site. Paul Orr the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper flew with a SouthWings pilot over the Mississippi River Delta south of New Orleans out to the site of the ongoing crude oil leak from the Taylor wells around 11 miles south of South Pass of the Mississippi River.…
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Sampling Revisit of Southeast Pass

Follow up sampling performed by the Lower Mississippi River Keeper in the Mississippi River Delta on December 21, 2010 by:Wilma SubraSubra Company Paul OrrLower Mississippi River Keeper Michael OrrLouisiana Environmental Action Network On August 3, 2010, and December 21, 2010, the Lower Mississippi River Keeper and Louisiana Environmental Action Network sampled soil in the Mississippi River Delta near the mouth of Southeast Pass.…
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Mighty Missislick Expedition

We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. -Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Mississippi River—the Great River—has lent its undulating waters to boyhood dreams, once again.…
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