Superfund, also known as CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability) was enacted in 1980 by the federal government in response to the discoveries of multiple large uncontrolled hazardous wastes sites in the United States (US). The Superfund program set aside money for the federal government and specifically the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate and clean up hazardous waste sites, as well as to compel industry to clean them up on their own. Since 1980
The Superfund program, which was better known as just Superfund, is also known as the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability act (CERLA) of 1980 was developed by the federal government as a way to preserve and protect the ecosystem and to clean up toxic, uncontrolled, abandoned hazardous waste sites. (Boorse & Wright, 2011, p.577). The Superfund program cleans up any hazardous waste, be it abandoned, accidentally spilled, or illegally dumped; any of which may pose a threat
Superfund sites are abandoned hazardous waste areas, designated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as posing a high risk to human and ecological health. The Portland Harbor Superfund site is a group of 60 former industrial sites located along the lower Willamette River in Portland, Oregon. In the early 1900s, before environmental health was a public concern, sewage and industrial waste were dumped directly into the Willamette River. By the time waste control systems were introduced
1) What is the “Superfund” law? When was it created? 2) Using this site: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/ identify one brownfield/Superfund site within 200 miles of Louisville and respond to the following items. a. Where is it located? U.S. Doe Gaseous Diffusion Plant Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky b. What contaminant(s) is/are present? Technetium, uranium, thorium, plutonium, neptunium, trichloroethylene, polychlorinated biphenyls c. What affects does that contaminant have on? 1. People
work to prevent improper disposal and encourage the cleanup of improperly disposed waste. The EPA has the power to manage hazardous waste and how it is disposed of including superfund sites. A Superfund site is a declared site that has been used as a hazardous waste disposal area, and has high toxicity levels. Within the superfund, there is the NPL, the National Priorities list, that has the most toxic sites, lots of times located in family neighborhoods and communities. The main reason for the NPL
far-reaching problems including social, economic, and enviro... ... middle of paper ... ...ization to determine the extent of environmental contamination and the cost of removal or remediation. Then, funds should be set aside either from the Superfund Trust Fund or general revenues to provide resources to local governments to develop brownfield site inventories, site assessments, and brownfield redevelopment strategies, the main goal of which would be to attract private investment. EPA should
Love Canal When one thinks about an environmental disaster, the image of a large explosion in a highly industrial area comes to mind. Such is not the case in the Love Canal emergency. Unlike most environmental disasters, the events of Niagara Falls's Love Canal weren't characterized by a known and uncontrollable moment of impact. It developed over a period of several decades, since the effects of leaching chemicals is uncertain and slow in development and the visual effects are very limited
Love Canal was a small town in Niagara Falls, New York, located between two bodies of water: the Bergholtz Creek to the North and the Niagara River to the South. Seems innocent enough right? Wrong. This town was built on top of 21,000 tons of toxic waste (Verhovek). In the early 1890’s, William T. Love wanted to build a canal which would connect the Niagara River to Lake Ontario to generate hydroelectric power for his would be city. However, due to a severe drop in investors and laws passed by Congress
Dioxin and The Times Beach Evacuation The Jingle Bells of 1982 did not bring in a merry Christmas for the residents of Times Beach, Missouri, a small town of some 1400 people. During the annual town Christmas dinner the residents finally received the news that they had hoped would never come. The residents of Times Beach were to be relocated and the town were to be bought out by the federal government. This was the first time such a thing was done since the founding of the nation. The buyout
The Lowry Landfill Superfund Site is located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, approximately 2 miles east of Aurora. It consists of approximately 507 acres of waste disposal area and is operated by Waste Management of Colorado, Inc. The land surrounding the site consists of native prairie grass and a wetland located along a local creek. Sections around the site are zoned for agricultural use including cattle grazing and non-irrigated wheat farms. 1 The area is home to numerous endangered species including
Toxic waste and the superfund act of 1980 Love Canal is one of the most infamous toxic waste disaster in history. The Love Canal site began its life as a project linking “the upper and lower Niagara Rivers” in western New York, in order to provide power to the homes and industry that William T. Love intended to build (Beck, 1979, para. 5). In 1910 William T. Love Rn out of funding for this project, and the land was subsequently sold to Hooker Chemical Company. The Hooker Chemical Company purchased
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Pollution of the oceans have been a big problem in the world, and it seems that these problems are not getting better. People keep talking about how we need to fix this problem, but no one seems to act on it. Ocean pollution is terrible for not just fish, but humans also. All this is also avoidable, the majority of the oceans pollution is man made. We are just hurting ourselves by doing this, but people continue to put stuff in the ocean. There is a clean up process for all of this, but it is
Large rooms were mined to get access to ... ... middle of paper ... ...fund Site. EPA Cooperative Agreement #V-006449-01-N. U Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2006. 13. Fourth Five Year Review Tar Creek Superfund Site Ottawa County, Oklahoma; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 6: Dallas, TX, 2010. 14. "Lead." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 18 Mar. 2004. Web. 28 Apr. 2014. http://www.cdc
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or more commonly known as the Superfund. The Superfund created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment, and was enacted by Congress on December 11, 1980. On October 17, 1986 CERCLA was amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA). (U.S. EPA, 2010) The CERCLA established
A brownfield is any real property that is abandoned, idled, or under utilized due to the presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant. The Presence of a brownfield can bring down property values; they can pose a threat public health and the quality of the environment, which Colorado takes very seriously. For years mining and agricultural practices are what stimulated Colorado’s economy but have left behind contaminated properties. This department established a Voluntary Cleanup Program
Every movement has its pros and its cons, and environmental justice is no different. The term "environmental justice" emerged in the 1980's, but the movement started as early as the 1970's. Of course, the want for environmental justice has always been there. All throughout history justice has been sought after, and environmental justice is just half of it. Politics and the economy are extreme factors to where and whom environmental injustice effect. Developing countries, such as Egypt, are extremely
Environmental Effects of Hurricane Katrina: On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale with winds up to one-hundred and forty miles per hour. Katrina was one of the costliest and deadliest hurricanes to ever hit the United States. One-thousand eight hundred deaths, seven hundred missing and one-million displaced is evidence of the human toll that Katrina caused and $84 billion in cost makes Katrina the most expensive natural
within the jurisdiction of the EPA. Accomplishments: Over the years, the EPA has made many significant accomplishments in its ultimate quest of environmental protection. Some of the EPA’s best accomplishments are reducing acid rain, banning DDT, superfund, and reducing air pollution. Power plants were a great cause of acid rain but the EPA had an effective way to fix it. “The 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act gave EPA the authority to regulate sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, the pollutants
a dangerous state, the police became concerned when they stopped him for another reason and they found material in his vehicle that was dangerous. Ten months later, his mother's property was cleaned up by the Environmental Protection Agency at a Superfund cleanup site. Hahn attained Eagle Scout rank shortly after his lab was dismantled. Key Idea 1 Growing up in suburban Detroit,