Clean up crews say they have contained the waste from last month’s explosion at Smitty’s Supply in Roseland and so far, they have recovered more than five and a half million gallons of waste from the Tangipahoa River and affected ponds. EPA on scene coordinator, Adam Adams says that represents more than half of the overall waste to be recovered. Adams says you can see the progress in the ponds.
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You can get updates on the clean up at response.epa.gov and click on the region that includes Louisiana.
Louisiana has a new area code today. North Louisiana exhausted all of the numbers with a 318 area code so they added the new area code 457. Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell says you now must dial all ten numbers to make a call in the region, including local calls. There had been optional testing of the 10 number requirement, but Campbell says that expired a month ago; so if you omit the area code, you’ll get nowhere.
Ole Miss head football coach Lake Kiffin calls LSU linebacker Whit Weeks an awesome kid. Jeff Palermo reports he’d better – Weeks could end up being his son-in-law.
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September is National Rice Month and ULM and Arkansas State are ending the month the Saturday with the return of the Rice Bowl Brice Jones with ULM says the Rice Bowl is a great way to promote the rice industry in the two of the country’s top rice producing states.