SECTION THREE 3.1 HISTORICAL INCIDENTS AT RINGSEND WASTEWATER TREATMENT PALNT The odour complaints

Air pollution continues to be a significant problem in the city of Birmingham, as it has been for decades. No one enjoys walking the streets of Birmingham only to taste or smell the smoke and particulates in the air, not to mention the damaging effects to one’s health. Fortunately, improvements have been made; forty years ago, residents of Birmingham could not even see the skyline due to the immense amounts of particulates in the air, but now the skyline is visible on a daily basis. The noticeable improvement indicates the progress that has been made over the years, but there is still plenty of room for much needed improvement. Birmingham’s air quality is among some of the worst in the United States, but there are several feasible and

2. London has suffered from terrible air pollution for at least seven centuries. Why is the city so prone to its famous “London fog?” What did London do to get rid of its air pollution? Because of The terrible events in Pennsylvania and London, plus the recognition of the hazards of photochemical smog. They did the Clean Air Act in 1970 in the United States. The act now regulates 189 pollutants.

Please let me know how you would like us to proceed with the above issues, I’ve already been in contact with Heritage Property and Casualty Insurance Company’s main number to see if the in-house company can come out and provide the air quality test and bill our insurance directly.

By tracing the long-term pattern of London fog, a conclusion can be made, the Great Smog of London is not a spontaneous event, however, fog observation cannot be used as an estimate of air pollution. This article provides insightful and comprehensive information to the research topic, gives a better understanding of the meteorological, economic, and political situation at the time of the incident, helps to facilitate

The video speaks to public health starting with the prevalence of asthma in children—a chronic disease due to city pollution. Treating asthma is at one end of the public health continuum;

The Environmental Protection Agency points out that “failure to remove contaminated materials and to reduce moisture and humidity can present serious long-term health

(Vancouver Humane Society, 20, 1). This has a great effect on our health because of all the fumes and other waste that it creates. However, there are a few solutions to these

On a cold cloudy day, the winds are lightly blowing making the dull brown and yellow leaves fall down gracefully to the hard ground concrete. People are getting out of their vehicles, some are walking, and some are running to attend to their scheduled class. When you parked your car in the parking lot in front of a brick wall building labeling Blackwater there’s a frightful smell coming from Princess Anne Building. Princess Anne Building used to be a building for registrations for new comers, located next to the bus stop. The smell is strong enough to give you a migraine that will last until you exclude yourself from the building. There are men in their safety gears with safety goggles and white helmet drilling on top of the building creating dust and smokes into the air making it unhealthy to breath in the air.

On July, 2011, USEPA Region 4 conducted a Compliance Sampling Inspection (CSI) at the Hattiesburg South Lagoon Plant to review the numerous non-compliance with the NPDES effluent permit limitations and odor complaints by residential nearby areas. Findings showed high organic loadings from the industrial influent wastewater, elevated concentrations of nutrients at the plant’s effluent, solids accumulation in all lagoons, dead-zones and inadequate mixing in the lagoons were observed due to the in operation of several aerators, unpleasant odors were found, and the facility’s historical data showed multiple violations in their NPDES permit limits for BOD5, total suspended solids (TSS), total residual chlorine (TRC), ammonia, and fecal coliform.

A thick and polluted smog blanketed London in the December of 1952. This four-day smog was so poisonous that left about 12,000 people dead and dramatically increase the hospital admission rate, claims for insurance and applications to emergency bed service (the indicators of morbidity) during that week and the following several months. Additionally, it is also so thick that have been reported to choked livestock to death and to brought in transport to a virtually standstill. This is not the first or the last smog hit London, but it has became a landmark of air pollution epidemiology not only because its scale of the

Domestic wells are usually shallower than public wells and are more susceptible to contamination from surface waters (Kumar et al., 2010). From 1971-2008, private wells were responsible for 67 percent (n=40) of reported outbreaks from groundwater (Wallender et al., 2013). Contamination of the groundwater that feeds drinking water wells results from infiltration from rivers, septic tank leach fields, and leaking sewer lines (all sewer lines leak). Cross contamination with septic system wastes due to poor design, maintenance or improper spacing is listed as the primary cause. Contamination of groundwater is reportedly widespread (Auld et al., 2004; Curriero et al., 2001; Fong et al., 2007; Thomas et al., 2006; Tornevi et al., 2015) and

In this experiment, we started on day zero where preparations and pollution began. We started with 500mM of sodium chloride in a beaker of 400mL of AlgaGro. Then began to slowly separate the sodium chloride filled AlgaGro in separate beakers, so that we

The people who wrote the study have found that the pollution is coming from the fertilizers -that contains ammonia- being spread all over crops which is interfering “with local pollution, from industry and traffic” (Vidal, 2016, para. 9). The government has not done anything to prevent this from becoming worse, because they assumed that is was out of their control; it was in nature’s hand; when it in fact was not. If the government did their research they may have found what or where the pollution is coming from. A case by lawyer Alan Andrews who works for ClientEarth has been placed against the government’s cleanup plan due to the fact that this ‘pollution could in fact have been prevented (para. 14). The United Kingdom should have never come to be this serious without finding out what made the air, environment, and surroundings so dangerous to live. A runner was unable to take his daily run because it was “unpleasant” and felt “in the air” (para. 4). It someone can feel themselves breathing in dust particles I would be worried myself. However the study has created a plan on reducing the emissions of ammonia to decrease the pollution emissions from 24 to 11% by 2030 (para. 17). Andrews points out a serious problem of how the pollution “chokes our towns and cities on a daily basis”. This is not something that people want to hear, but run away. Hopefully, the government will change their plan on

As stated by Wang et al. (2006, p. 160) ... “environmental accidents, complaints, and concerns have pressured industries to shift from the traditions end-of-pipe approaches to sound pollution prevention strategies”. Interface are reducing their smoke stacks. End of pipe solutions are no longer accepted as a means of reducing pollution and remaining sustainable in the 21st Century (Waage 2003, p. 23). This has resulted in Interface reducing their 292 smoke stacks to 183. This is a 39% reduction in smoke stacks from their operations. A reduction in smoke stacks equals a reduction in pollutants and waste entering the earths atmosphere. As stated by Wang et al. (2006, p. 160) “Pollution represents a loss in profits during manufacturing”. By Interface reducing their pollution through smoke stack minimisation, they will see a return in increased profits. Further looking into the aspect of reducing emissions, Interface has acknowledged that “to prevent toxic emissions altogether we must go upstream and prevent those toxic substances from entering our factories in the first place. What comes in will go out-as a product, waste or emission” (Waage 2003, p. 23.). To sum this statement, prevention is better than cure. By following a process of assessing what products come into a manufacturing process and either substituting or eliminating pollutant products, the end waste will be minimised. As Interface has set up a programme to reduce benign emissions they

This procedure applies to the operation of the manufacturing processes located at the Company Name manufacturing facility in Cambridge, Ontario. Industrial Hygiene sampling will be conducted for Air Quality, Noise, Heat Stress and exposure to Isocyanates and Mercury.