Already, illegal dumping goes on in plain sight. On one road, a pile of paint cans, telephone poles, biological hazard bags and insulation reaches several feet high. Some of it has been pushed into the swamp next to the road. A month after Katrina, the state Department of Environmental Quality also allowed the reopening of an old city-owned garbage landfill, the Old Gentilly Landfill, that had been closed down by federal regulators more than a decade ago. Dust is kicked up all day on the roads leading to it. Katrina created an amazing 22 million tons of waste, 15 ti8mes the amount of debris from the September 11, 2001 attacks. The state Department of Environmental Quality said inspections have shown that the debris going into the landfill is in compliance with the state?EUR??,,????'???s plan to deal with the wreckage from the hurricane. The fears over turning the Old Gentilly Landfill into a Superfund site are not without precedent. When Hurricane Betsy flooded the city in 1965, much of the debris from that hurricane was dumped in the Agriculture Street Landfill. Homes and a school were built atop the landfill before it was found to be contaminated and declared a Superfund site.