Just south of the Galveston Causeway, not far from splendid bay side homes, the terrain along the Intracoastal alters, with modest grass covered levees rising from the shoreline.
What lies behind is beyond the casual boater’s line of sight, but, from the air all is revealed—a massive chain of grotesque storage ponds, each filled with millions of gallons of toxic sludge.
There are 32 “ponds” in all.
The collection of unnaturally “black lagoons” stretches as far as the eye can see and they’ve been there for more than 40 years.
Largely forgotten, they came to the attention of Fox 26 because Dr. Kent Hood decided to blow the whistle on what he believes is an enormous and ongoing threat to public health.
“They wanted me to look at these sludges. We know we’re not doing the right thing,” said Hood.
Hood is talking about waste from the Simpson Pasadena Paper mill where he worked as a chemical engineer. It was waste which contained the cancer causing compound known as Dioxin.
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