HURRICANE KATRINA RESPONSE

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Tetra Tech—through our existing EPA Superfund Technical Assessment and Response Team contracts—deployed hundreds of staff of varying technical expertise to aid in the recovery efforts, including search and rescue operations, emergency response, assessments of damage to infrastructure, sampling of flood waters for contamination, IT/GIS support, reconnaissance and environmental assessment, and household hazardous waste removal.