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The residents of Cherokee Forest have been working for years to reduce the air and water pollution coming into their neighborhood from their industrial neighbors.
“We want to visualize what Miss Barbara breathes,” he said. Barbara Weckesser has led the fight against the pollution, forming the Cherokee Concerned Citizens coalition, which filed the lawsuit.
Eustis flew a balloon with a camera tethered to it about 200 feet up to get a bird’s eye view of Bayou Casotte and V.T. Halter Marine in east Pascagoula near Industrial Road.
“I think a picture is worth more than a thousand words,” he said.
Halter Marine $17,500 in March 2016 for failing to protect the surrounding environment from paint overspray and sandblasting dust after the company failed to meet a 2015 deadline to build an indoor blast and spray facility.
That building is now under construction.
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