Monday, Oct. 2, 2017 | 2 a.m.
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A flood is not just about the damage the water itself does, but the debris it carries with it.
Hurricane Harvey flooded 13 Superfund sites, areas of intense contamination hazardous to human health, in Texas. What was contained in those sites is now being spread further.
Yet the Trump administration wants to carve 31 percent out of the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is in charge of decontaminating superfund sites.
No matter how you prepare for a natural disaster, its effects will still be devastating. Thirty inches of rain or even 20 inches would have qualified as a major flood requiring massive rescue and relief efforts. Houston got 50 inches of rain. A fully funded EPA is necessary to cleanse Superfund sites so that their dangers are never again unleashed when disaster strikes.
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