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ERT's 40 Hour Inland Slow & Black Water Oil Spill Training Course
TThe video highlights training course tha provides the skills needed to make the correct decisions in the critical hours and days following an inland oil spill. Students will be able to evaluate, contain and recover a spill, and gauge safe and unsafe procedures. (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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Operation Contra Costa Shore
This video covers readiness training for a simulated collision between a train carrying flammable liquid and a truck transporting potentially hazardous materials in California. (1993)
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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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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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Schools Chemical Cleanout Campaign
This video helps teachers and administrators manage chemicals wisely in K-12 schools using the Schools Chemical Cleanout Campaign, or SC3. SC3 is a joint program of USEPA, along with other federal agencies and industry partners. (2009)
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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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USEPA Region 5 Response Readiness Training
A full day field exercise including a simulated WMD Lab, a booby trapped package, and a van rigged with dirty bomb components. On day 2, tabletop training expanded the field exercise to engage additional response organizations.(2004)
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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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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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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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Tri-National Hazardous Materials Exercise
In 2006, USEPA Region 6, the Mexican Environmental Protection Agency, PROFEPA, and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas assembled in Eagle Pass, TX, and Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, for a Tri-National Hazardous Material Exercise. (2006)
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USEPA Region III Full Scale WMD Exercise
USEPA Region III conducted full scale training using Level A, B, and C protective equipment. Using the Incident Command System (ICS), three scenarios were enacted, covering chemical, biological, and radiation situations. (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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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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Martin County, KY Coal Waste Spill
This video describes the collapse of a coal slurry impoundment in Kentucky, it's effect on the surrounding residents and ecology, and the work of 36 agencies to clean-up and restore the area. (2001)
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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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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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