Bioremediation

The housing that Rebuild Green rebuilds in New Orleans will be on land inundated with 'Toxic Flood Water' (the 'TFW' scrawled on thousands of homes' fronts) in September of 2005. The Upper and Lower 9th Wards, New Orleans East, and Central City all "took" at least three feet of water than subsequently stood for weeks afterward.

Therefore, Rebuild Green is using methods already in effect due to work by the Common Ground Collective's Bioremediation team to rehabilitate the whole of building-sites.

Sunflowers are drawing arsenic and other toxins from the soil along the block of Desire Street on which our first neighborhood of green housing is to go up. (Sunflowers did the same cleansing work in the front yard of Common Ground's new Lower 9th Ward Clinic.) Mustard plants are to be planted this Fall on 30 sites by the Bioremediation team. Efficient Micro-organisms have already been sprayed into dozens of apartments in the Woodlands complex on New Orleans' West Bank.