Bahamas: Estimated 7.5 Million Tons Of Debris Covering Marsh Harbor - That's ONE City Hit By Dorian

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Homes lay in ruin in The Mudd neighborhood in the Marsh Harbour area of Abaco, Bahamas, on Monday, 9 September 2019, one week after Hurricane Dorian hit. Photo: Fernando Llano / AP Photo

Officials are grappling with how to deal with 1.5 billion pounds of debris left behind in Marsh Harbour after Hurricane Dorian decimated the community in Abaco, Bahamas.

The landscape was littered after Dorian with splintered homes and buildings, boats, cars and every sort of debris associated with daily life. Much of it is still there.

“We’ve done satellite imagery. We’ve done drone footage. We estimate that it’s going to be about two million cubic meters of debris … That equates to about 1.5 billion pounds of debris so we’re identifying potential laydown sites where we can place these items,” the country’s Minister of the Environment and Housing Romauld Ferreira told reporters last week, according to the Nassau Guardian.

That number is from just one section of the areas that took the brunt of Dorian’s wrath. Ferreira said debris in Grand Bahama, for example, has been more difficult to pinpoint.

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