Hurricane Harvey Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Health and environmental hazards in flood waters=== Houston officials stated that the Houston drinking water and sewer systems were intact; however, "hundreds of thousands of people across the 38 Texas counties affected by Hurricane Harvey use private wells, according to an estimate by [[Louisiana State University]] researchers, and those people must fend for themselves."<ref name="TabuchiKaplan">[[Hiroko Tabuchi]] & Sheila Kaplan, [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-contaminated-floodwaters.html?mcubz=3 A Sea of Health and Environmental Hazards in Houston's Floodwaters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903081330/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/us/houston-contaminated-floodwaters.html?mcubz=3 |date=September 3, 2017 }},|work=[[The New York Times]] (August 31, 2017).</ref> Additionally, [[Harris County, Texas|Harris County]], which includes Houston, contains a large number of [[Superfund]]-designed [[brownfield]] sites that contain a wide variety of toxins and carcinogens.<ref name="TabuchiKaplan"/> Two Superfund sites in Corpus Christi were flooded.<ref name="TabuchiKaplan"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page