Thanh Truong / WWL-TV News Reporter

Almost a week after Mayor Ray Nagin reached an agreement to shut down a controversial landfill pending safety testing, not a single test has been conducted and the company that runs the dump says it plans to reopen for business Wednesday.

Joel Walzer of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network said he was denied an opportunity to do testing on the N.O East landfill on Tuesday when he and a team showed up at the site just hours before a moratorium on dumping was to have ended.

Walzer said he had an order signed by Mayor Ray Nagin but officials with Waste Management said that was the first time they had seen the order and they did not have ample time to review it.

"The city expected a list of protocol from LEAN on Friday,” said Renee Faucheux of Waste Management. “They did not get that list until this morning, consequently all parties involved didn't have the time to look at the agreement and discuss proper protocol."

The latest problem comes almost a week after Nagin and members of the largely Vietnamese community near the landfill reached an agreement on closing the landfill until testing could be done to determine whether or not toxins are being put into the landfill.

The agreement came after several protests by the N.O. East residents over the landfill.

The original agreement called for each side to send in their own testers, but now Nagin is asking for a joint team to take the samples and conduct the tests.

"I want to make sure there joint testing,” he said. “I don't want to get in later saying the city did a test and then they come back later and did a test and we have these disputing results, my objective is to have joint testing so that we can resolve this once and for all."

Waste Management officials said that barring an extension of Nagin’s order on dumping, deposits at the landfill would resume Wednesday.