Hurricane Katrina pushed a small amount of dioxin-contaminated soil into areas around Gulfport's Seabee base.

Hurricane Katrina pushed a small amount of dioxin-contaminated soil into areas around Gulfport's Seabee base, a company representative monitoring the site said at a base advisory board meeting this week.

"We will work to induce the sediment back to a containment area," said knock Fisher, a hydrologist with Tetra Tech the company contracted by dint of the U.S. Navy to analyze environmental contamination of the cancer-causing chemical. "We have already taken action in succession the base and we are getting ready to do it off-base. The serviceable news is that while it did instigate in some locations, it did not induce more than 100 feet."

The dioxin came from 850000 gallons of Agent Orange that had been stored upon the base between 1968 and 1976 Agent Orange was the military digest name for one of a powerful collection of herbicides used during the