Drug Use New Orleans: New Orleans Grid Sampling of Water to Find Meth Houses

The drug abuse in New Orleans is well known and the drugs have always been readily available including ‘crystal meth’ which seems to be the drug of choice now amongst younger age groups. Most of these types of drugs are made locally, not coming from other countries. New Orleans is not an exception to this rule. The chemicals used in making crystal meth are highly toxic and now with the waters having temporarily flooded New Orleans that pollution is in the water. When that water is siphoned and pumped back into the lake with it will go all that toxic pollution.

Before the water is forced back out of the city we can use a virtual grid and take water samples of the area then place this data on an ESRI GIS program and get an idea of what types of pollutions occur where when huge flooding events devastate areas. Additionally based on the density of the chemicals used in make shift home meth labs we can almost immediately determined what areas and exactly what houses were meth houses.

I propose using a tethered blimp type system to float over the city and lower lines with sampling kits to various depths to determine and collect data of the type of pollution which exists, catch drug dealers and use this data to determine what is in the water and where. By using this data for future floods we can determine how to address the toxicity of stagnant flooded waters based on time after initial floods and the distribution of chemicals, bacteria and potentially predict breeding rates of harmful human organic growth. Think on this.

Mark Wahlberg talks New Orleans, The Wire, and Contraband – [BLACKTREE TV – NEW YORK] Award winning journalist and entertainment producer Shawn Edwards sits down to talk with Mark Wahlberg about his new flick Contraband. MARK WAHLBERG (The Fighter, The Other Guys) and KATE BECKINSALE (Underworld series, The Aviator) lead the cast of Contraband, a fast-paced thriller about a man trying to stay out of a world he worked hard to leave behind, and the family he’ll do anything to protect. Legendary smuggler Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) had abandoned his life of crime to settle into a life of comfortable domesticity with his wife and their two young sons. But after his brother-in-law, Andy (CALEB LANDRY JONES of X-Men: First Class, No Country for Old Men), botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs (GIOVANNI RIBISI of Avatar, Public Enemies), Chris is forced back into doing what he does better than anyone—running contraband—to settle Andy’s debt. With the help of his best friend, Sebastian Abney (BEN FOSTER of 30 Days of Night, 3:10 toYuma), Chris quickly assembles a crew that includes their childhood friend Danny Raymer (LUKAS HAAS of Inception, Brick) to head to Panama and return with millions in counterfeit bills. They must pull this off under the — 11 — ?Chris Farraday with his wife, Kate (KATE BECKINSALE), and eldest son, Michael (CONNOR HILL). suspicious eyes of the ship’s captain (JK SIMMONS of Juno, Young Adult), whose long history with Chris’ father makes him suspect the younger Farraday of even shadier dealings …

Russell Brand arrested over iPhone toss

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NEW ORLEANS – Russell Brand was taken into custody by New Orleans police on Thursday and booked for simple criminal damage after a photographer accused the British comedian and actor of grabbing his iPhone and tossing it through a window, …
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AIDS report shows Baton Rouge, New Orleans in top five

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Enlarge Michael DeMocker, The Times-Picayune MICHAEL DeMOCKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Volunteers concerned with the spread of HIV and AIDS in the New Orleans community dance down North Claiborne Avenue during the Red Umbrella March to raise awareness.
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Russell Brand arrested over iPhone toss

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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Russell Brand was taken into custody by New Orleans police on Thursday and booked for simple criminal damage after a photographer accused the British comedian and actor of grabbing his iPhone and tossing it through a window, …
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