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Environmental Response News Magazine #4
This installment includes the mapping of subsurface geology at a mine and the identification of 5,000 contaminant-filled drums. "Site Shorts" are from EPA Regions 1,2,5 and 10. New technologies cover Immunoassay kits, Geoprobe, and DrumTrak. (1994)
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WMD Field Exercise Argonne National Laboratory
The video covers USEPA's counter terrorism field exercise designed to integrate all responding agencies using the Incident Command System. The exercise involved hazmat entries into simulated weapons of mass destruction (WMD) laboratories. (2002)
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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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EPA Region III Computer Recycling
USEPA Region III developed a program to donate their outdated computers to educational and non-profit organizations. (2002)
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Flura Chemical Site Cleanup
A cleanup of an abandoned chemical facility containing 700 unidentified gas cylinders and thousands of suspect chemical containers, including PFIB. All chemicals were analyzed at on-site lab. (2002)
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Biosolids Recycling: Restore, Reclaim, Remediate
Solids from sewage treatment are being recycled and used as fertilizers for overworked agricultural soils and to reclaim lands destroyed by mining. Several field tests are discussed. (2000)
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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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Libby, Montana: An Asbestos Legacy
Processed vermiculite from the Libby MT Mine contained tremolite asbestos. Over time, the asbestos found it's way into local homes. EPA instituted a decontamination program for the town and the contaminated residences. (2004)
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Environmental Response News Magazine #19
The main feature highlights the multiagency response/recovery effort to locate the debris of the Space Shuttle Columbia. The Tech Update covers the in-situ removal of TCE from an aquifer in Grafton, MA. (2004)
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Torch Lake - Making Modern History
Mines on Michigan's Upper Peninsula once provided 80 percent of the worlds copper. As part of a mine waste remediation, local teachers and students participated in a 4 year monitoring program in partnership with federal and state agencies. (2004)
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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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Liberty RADeX
Over 1,000 federal, state, and local emergency responders convened in Philadelphia for a 5 day full-scale exercise based on an a Radiological Dispersal Devise attack, also known as a "Dirty Bomb." (2010)
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Anthrax: Remediating The Effects of Bioterrorism
This video covers the response and clean-up of anthrax contamination in Florida, New York, and Washington, DC. Sampling, decontamination, and future research of bioterrorism are also discussed. (2002)
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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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Kentucky Oil Wells Plugging
Equipment and techniques used to evaluate and plug decommissioned oil wells in the Illinois Basin Oil Fields are detailed. (1999)
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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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Superfund Radiation Risk Assessment And How You Can Help: An Overview
Community focused video on assessing radiation risk at EPA Superfund Sites. The four parts of an assessment are explained: Data Collection and Evaluation, Exposure Assessment, Toxicity Assessment, and Risk Characterization. (2004)
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Innovative Shoreline Stabilization at Carroll Island & Graces Quarters
Land managers at the US Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland use a non-traditional technique to protect the sensitive Chesapeake Bay shoreline, which is subject to seasonal storm surges and wave erosion. (2004)
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TRPRC Exercise
The mutual aid organization TRPRC (Three Rivers Pollution Response Council) held an Energency Response Exercise in Martinsville, WV to test the groups reaction to simulated terrorist, WMD, and HAZMAT scenarios. (2005)
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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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Starmet Radiation Site
The unique characteristics of radiation contaminated waste are investigated at this South Carolina cleanup site. Radioactive wastewater was treated and reduced to a solid, along with the removal of over 12,000 drums of radiological waste. (2004)
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Preservation Aviation Superfund Site
Over 1.5 million vintage World War II aviation gauges, many contaminated with radioactive Radium 226, were surveyed for radiation, and then segregated into 3 waste streams at this site in Burbank, CA. (2005)
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Fisherville Mill
When a mill burned to the ground in Grafton, MA, trichloroethylene and No.6 Fuel Oil were found in the aquifer. The area was stabilized and an in-situ oxidation method, using sodium permanganate was used to remediate the area. (2003)
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