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Worker Protection Standards
When Superfund was reauthorized in 1986, the EPA was required to develop a set of regulations for protecting worker safety. This video describes this regulation (HAZWOPER) and presents details of the regulation's requirements. (1992)
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16:58
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Midwest Floods of 1997
In support of the 1997 Midwest floods, the U.S. EPA participated in an effort to collect, identify, and dispose of hundreds of tanks and drums containing petroleum products and hazardous chemicals that were contaminated, ruptured, and washed downstream. (1997)
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10:28
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Summitville Mine
At the Summitville Mine, highly contaminated water runs through an abandoned mine shaft. Fractures in the adjacent rock make the investigation and remediation a challenge. (1998)
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19:47
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Operation River City
In Nov. 2003, 700 participants from 77 organizations held a 60 hr. real-time field exercise. 4 concurrent, geographically separate, Weapons of Mass Destruction events were simulated. (2003)
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Baltic Emergency Response
The EPA conducted training sessions for the Baltic countries of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. A simulated train accident in Estonia tested the ability of agencies from 5 countries to collaborate during the Hazardous Materials Emergency Response Exercise. (1997)
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Chlorine Dioxide (CL02) Demonstration Project
Methods used to evaluate CL02 as a gas phase fumigant are presented in response to Anthrax Bio-Terrorism events. (2002)
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Introduction to Incident Command System
This video covers an Incident Command System (ICS) training class held by the US Forestry Service. ICS allows multiple agencies to use a common command system when handling multi-agency responses. (2003)
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Navajo Vats II
This program highlights pilot treatability studies by the EPA and the Navajo Nation to determine the most cost-effective way to clean up soils contaminated with toxaphene.(1998)
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Sishc's Foundry : Preserving the Past
This video highlights the efforts to preserve early 20th-century artifacts found at the Sishc's Foundry in Nebraska. The site was contaminated with heavy metals and asbestos, and required a full cleanup. (1996)
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Operation Wildfire
A multi-agency, multi-jurisdiction HAZMAT Emergency Response Exercise including EPA Region 9 was held in Salinas, CA in 1989.(1989)
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Montana Post and Pole Groundwater Treatment Facility
The below-freezing winter temperatures of the Montana winter presented a challenge for the construction of recovery wells and a water-treatment plant to recover PCP and diesel products and remediate contaminated groundwater.(1993)
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Operation Able Waters
Tells the story of a multi-county response in the South Central Lake Okeechobee Florida area in 2002. The simulation involved of a potential Weapons of Mass Destruction and hazardous materials incident, involving a school bus and a train collision, and a break-in into a chemicals facility. (2002)
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Introduction to Environmental Geophysics
A four-day course for individuals who have responsibility for overseeing or planning the collection of site data or waste characteristics. The course stresses practical information required to design or supervise geophysical surveys at hazardous waste sites. (2002)
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08:42
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Bayou Bonfouca
A wood treating facility released massive amounts of creosote and other industrial pollutants into the neighboring bayou. Sophisticated equipment, including a computer-monitored dredge was developed to assist in the cleanup. (1995)
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Environmental Dredging
This video reviews environmental dredging of lakes, rivers and bays, utilizing special equipment and procedures to remove contaminated sediments with a minimum of impact on valuable aquatic resources. (2000)
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08:59
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Alaska Rural Bulk Fuel Storage
In spite of a subsistence lifestyle, petrochemicals fuel much of rural Alaska. Aging bulk fuel storage tanks are deteriorating and out of compliance. Agencies are cooperating to bring updated storage systems to these remote villages. (2000)
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ERT's Fast Water Oil Spill Training Course
A description of the 3-day training course used to prepare emergency responders for handling hazardous materials and oil spills in a fast water environment. (2002)
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Yurok Tribe Illegal Dump Site
Tribal, state, and federal agencies formed an alliance to clean up an illegal dump site that threatened sacred fishing waters on the Yurok reservation in northern California. Three acres of steeply sloping land near the Klamath River were cleared of hazardous and non-hazardous waste. (1998)
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Environmental Response News Magazine #17
This issue of the ERTV News Magazine covers the collapse of a coal slurry impoundment and the resulting 250 million gallon coal waste spill in Kentucky. The Technology Update features environmental dredging options. (2002)
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Environmental Response News Magazine #13
The sacred fishing waters of the Yurok Tribe of Northern California are threatened by an illegal dump site. The latest techniques and policies used at asbestos abatement sites are featured along with Federal On Scene Coordinator readiness training. (2000)
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Environmental Response News Magazine #6
One of the largest Superfund cleanups in Louisiana is featured, along with the Superfund Accelerated Cleanup Model (SACM) . "Site Shorts" features EPA Regions 3,4, and 6. (1995)
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CBEP in Henryetta, OK
Citizens of Henryetta, Oklahoma collaborated with representatives from state, federal, and local government agencies to reclaim land contaminated by a zinc smelter. (1998)
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Environmental Response News Magazine #8
This installment of the ERTV News Magazine documents a 4-phase action plan by 20 agencies designed to eliminate the immediate and long-term effects of the pesticide methyl parathion in Ohio residences. (1996)
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Environmental Response News Magazine #14
Both feature stories address oil spills from abandoned petroleum pump stations. The first concerns removal via oil/water pumps, and the second depicts site revegetation with native plants. The Tech. Update addresses a pilot on-site thermal desorption system. (2001)
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Environmental Response News Magazine #18
ERTV News Mag #18 features the cleanup of an abandoned chemical research and development facility, the cleanup of a former bomb incendiary manufacturing site, the air sampling for the apartments surrounding the WTC, and the USEPA's computer recycling program. (2003)
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Libby Sister Sites
Vermiculite ore containing asbestos from a mine in Libby, MT, was shipped to facilities where it was processed by unsuspecting workers. These locations are being investigated and cleaned up. (2012)
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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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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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