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Green Pond Oil Spill
A subsurface pumping mechanism is used to contain and recover crude oil seeping into the soil from a defunct pumping station in Green Pond, NJ.(2000)
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Environmental Response News Magazine #11
ERTV News Mag #11 features a gas cylinder evaluation/disposal project in American Samoa. Also covered are a cleanup of a PCB-contaminated site, a pesticide removal project, and a petroleum waste bioremediation project. (1998)
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Environmental Response News Magazine #15
This issue highlights the ERT Dive Team and their projects, as well as covering geothermal well plugging, the Tranguch gasoline spill site in PA, and a training exercise in Alaska for responders to oil spill emergencies. (2001)
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Eaton Asbestos
An abandoned 43 acre sugar beet processing factory on Colorado's front range was contaminated with asbestos and lime waste. The community worked with the state and federal agencies to redevelop the city owned site. (2013)
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Returning a River To Health: Dredging the Upper Hudson
Documentary on the historic dredging of PCB contaminated sediments from the Hudson River. General Electric conducted the cleanup along 200 miles of the river, which is classified by EPA as a Superfund Site – one of the largest in the country.(2010)
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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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Developing a Partnership for Success: Johns Manville Asbestos Abatement
Federal, state, and regional agencies along with a citizens task force worked together to effectively remediate an asbestos threat at an abandoned facility in Nashua, NH. (1999)
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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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ERT Dive Team
The ERT Dive Team is a specialized field unit that investigates underwater hazardous materials. Four different examples of responses are presented illustrating various techniques and instrumentation. (1999)
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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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Clandestine Drug Labs - The Problem, The Dangers, The Future
Clandestine methamphetamine labs are proliferating across the US. This video discusses the labs, precautions to follow when a lab or dump site is discovered, and gives contact information regarding the Superfund response training program. (1998)
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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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Contaminated Sediments in Our Waterways: Impacts and Solutions
What sediments are, how they become contaminated, the impact of pollution, and various solutions for treatment and recovery are investigated.(2003)
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