1. What is the accepted definition of a ‘contaminated site’? Broadly discuss the reasoning

The main issues to be discussed are the degradation of the land including the salinity, soil erosion and land contamination and the other issue to be discussed involves waste including littering and landfill.

Evidence: There are many different types of pollutants. A type of pollutant called soil contamination can be found in liquid or solid form, mixed in with soil. Soil contamination can be dangerous to non-aquatic animals (animals found on land). Another type of pollutant is trash and litter found in water, and wildlife could eat one of these substances or get tangled up, and be poisoned or die from it. Also, air pollutants

There has been contamination found in the groundwater surrounding all four towns. The groundwater is contaminated with VOCs, trichloroethene (TCE), ethylene dibromide (EDB), carbon tetrachloride (CCI4), perchloroethylene (PCE), benzene, vinal chloride, 1,1,2,2-TeCA, 1,4-dichlorobenzene, manganese, thallium, lead, toluene, and RDX. “Ethylene dibromide is especially worry some because it was found upwelling in cranberry bogs located in Falmouth and Mashpee (militarycontamination)”. Where it would was stored in the cranberries skin. “Falmouth being the most affected area losing twenty five percent of its possible drinking water supply (wr.usgs)”. Although the plumes are deep down in the aquifer. “People could be at risk if they accidentally drink the water or come into direct contact with the contaminated groundwater (militarycontamination)”. The way towns keep the residents from coming in contact with the possible risks of

Individuals of the same ethnic background share the same culture a factor that explains that there, as many cultures as there are ethnic backgrounds across the world. Globalization has, however, led to interaction of people from varied cultural backgrounds. Because of the interaction, globalization has been accused of limiting cultural diversity. It is, however, not the case in reality. The purpose of this paper is to analyze some of the factors that justify that globalization has not limited cultural diversity as its critics say. Thus, globalization should not be viewed as a hindrance to cultural diversity because the best subject of moral concern should be the individual person and not the nation, community or the society.

cubic yards of contaminated soil make this site the one of the largest Superfund projects (EPA, 2013).

Prior to the late 1950s the site was used as an excavation pit for sand and gravel. The quarry was subsequently used for the disposal of waste materials from 1950 until 1966. 10 acres of the 28-acre site has been used as a disposal area for several hazardous waste contaminants that included volatile organic compounds (VOCs) such as benzene, tetrahydrofuran, toluene, vinyl chloride and xylene; other organics such as phenols and PCBs as well as lead. The main area of contamination is in the southern half of the 10 acre area which encompasses about 6 acres which

The purchaser engaged its own accredited auditor, who recommended reporting to the authority that the site posed significant risk of harm to human health and the environment because of contaminated groundwater, off site migration, vapors and the presence of residential units down slope. Work stopped for 10 months, with the council instituting proceedings in the land and environment court to restrain work until an accredited auditor had validated the site, as required by its development consent.

Using the assigned readings for Week Four, write a 50- to 75-word response to each of the following questions. Your responses will be assessed according to the accuracy of

What is soil? Soil is a mixture of broken rocks, minerals, living organisms, and decaying matter.

The issue is a matter of environmental injustice because the EPA was constantly neglecting the needs of the Tifton community. None of the removal actions during the 1980’s included any site or offsite testing for dioxins. Only after the PWP had their Technical Advisor urge the EPA to force Chevron to do the testing did they find dioxin contamination in the soil. In this case, there was environmental injustice because there was not a fair treatment of the residents of Tifton because the EPA was negligible in acknowledging there were such high levels of dioxin contamination in the Marzone site, and even going further as to ignore their own data on dioxin contamination in the South Tifton Study. The EPA has also been unresponsive to the concerns

If we were to lay the topic “effects of globalization” on the table, what assumptions might arise? Well, one might point out whether globalization can be considered as a positive thing or negative thing towards different cultures. The article “Case for contamination” gives insight on the author’s views and arguments towards globalization and how that intertwined with the people in Ghana.

In Paul Dylan Hynds article it states that, “Groundwater contamination occurs as a direct result of human or animal waste ingress to Groundwater resources aquifers or wells” Most likely when man-made products such as gasoline, oil, road salts, and chemicals get into the groundwater. Pollutants are freed to the ground making their way or path down into the Groundwater. Overall, groundwater is very difficult to remediate, except when it is being remediated in small defined areas. As a result the importance of Groundwater has to be on the preventation of contamination. Protecting sensitive aquifers, having control of discharges, releases, provision of drainage, and sanitation systems to ward off pollution discharges. However, in small areas with

Interactions between groundwater and surface water are complex. Consequently, groundwater pollution, sometimes referred to as groundwater contamination, is not as easily classified as surface water pollution.[7] By its very nature, groundwater aquifers are susceptible to contamination from sources that may not directly affect surface water bodies, and the distinction of point vs. non-point source may be irrelevant. A spill or ongoing releases of chemical or radionuclide contaminants into soil (located away from a surface water body) may not create point source or non-point source pollution, but can contaminate the aquifer below, defined as a toxin plume. The movement of the plume, a plume front, can be part of a Hydrological transport model or Groundwater model. Analysis of groundwater contamination may focus on the soil characteristics and site geology, hydrogeology, hydrology, and the nature of the contaminants.

Heavy metal contamination is one of the most serious and widespread forms of soil pollution [1, 2]. Many industrial and urban areas are polluted with

Land Pollution is the degradation of earth's land surfaces. Land can be polluted through soil or water. Human activities are the main factor and their misuse of land resources. Urbanization and industrialization are major causes of land pollution. Indiscriminate disposal of