"It’s been 15 years since Marcia Llewellyn left Norco, a community located next to an industrial complex long known for its distinctive odor, and a place that many residents said had become too polluted to live in.

“That’s what I always remember about it — the smell,” Llewellyn said as she stood inside her home on Union Street in Montz, a sleepy town along River Road on the east bank of St. Charles Parish. “You know the chemicals from the plants there had to be very strong, with a smell like that.”

This month, Llewellyn was shocked to discover her dead-end street in the quiet neighborhood she calls home might carry even more significant health risks."

Della Hasselle and Nick Reimann report for the New Orleans Advocate October 14, 2018. [2]