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Environmental Response News Magazine #9
This installment highlights a rapidly spreading tire fire in Michigan, the SCRIBE computer program for on-site data recording, and phytoremediation, which is the use of plants to remove contaminants from soil. (1997)
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Environmental Response News Magazine # 1
Topics for this installment include reports on abandoned wood-treating sites, an ecological study, an emergency response exercise, and Eco-Toxicologists studying insects adjacent to a PCB contaminated site. (1992)
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Tranguch Gasoline Spill Site
The story follows work in Hazelton, PA to mitigate the effects of the vapor threat to 400 homes. The threat resulted from a gasoline leak in an underground storage tank. A computer model tracked the spill and soil-vapor extraction systems were installed. (2001)
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Revegetation with Native Plants
The use of native plants species to revegetate cleaned up Superfund sites is presented. Native plants provide better erosion control, drought tolerance, and longer life spans. Larger populations and more diverse wildlife are attracted to these invasive-free areas. (2000)
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Acoma: People of the White Rock
The Acoma people and their Environmental Protection Office conducted a training exercise involving a hazardous waste truck and a tourist bus. The bioremediation cleanup of a former toxaphene contaminated stockyard is also featured. (2002)
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LCP Chemical Site
A 550 acre tidal wetlands site was contaminated with mercury, PCBs, sulfuric acid, and oil refinery wastes. Various engineering solutions were employed in the cleanup. There is also an ongoing study on the effects of mercury in the food chain.(1998)
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Crozet Phytoremediation
Phytoremediation is being employed at the site of a former orchard in Crozet, Virginia. The Victory variety of Pteris Vittata (ferns) is being used to clean up arsenic contamination at the site. (2007)
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Enbridge Oil Spill
Documentary on response by local, state, and federal agencies to the rupture and spill of over 843,000 gallons of crude oil along 35 miles of the Kalamazoo River, a Lake Michigan tributary. The spill is the largest inland oil spill in the nation's history. (2010)
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Hurricane Katrina & Rita, A Coordinated Response
USEPA's role in the multi-agency emergency response to the nation's largest natural disaster is examined. Search and rescue, HAZMAT collection, floodwater, sediment, and air sampling are presented. (2005)
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Pemaco Superfund Site
Potentailly carcinogenic Volatile Organic Compounds were found in the soil and groundwater beneath the abandoned Pemaco chemical blending facility near Los Angeles. A variety of innovative approaches, including High Vacuum Dual-Phase Extraction, Electrical Resistance Heating, Vapor Extraction, and Pump and Treat were used to remediate the pollution. (2008)
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Vineland Chemical EPA Superfund Site
To treat arsenic contamination at a former herbicide manufacturing plant in New Jersey, USEPA and the US Army Corps of Engineers implemented an innovative soil washing system that returns 95 % of the soil as clean backfill to the site. (2005)
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