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Cluster
Busters
The Case of Ms. Ima Well
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Welcome
to Somewhere Town's Environmental Quality office.
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The Environmental Quality office provides
the public with information on air, soil and water pollution
and with local air and water quality data.
| The Somewhere Town public water supply water
quality meets EPA standards (here is a list of things
we test for). Below is our most recent report on sites
with known contamination. |
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| Vocabulary |
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Sites with
Known Contaminants
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| Somewhere Town Landfill |
| 6700 Barrel Lane |
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| The landfill is currently used for domestic
waste, but between 1960 and 1967 was used as a disposal
site for a paint manufacturing company whose products
included cadmium- and lead-based paints. |
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| There is a groundwater contamination
plume that is 3 miles long and 0.5 miles wide, heading
northwest. The wells that supply drinking water near near
this plume were shut down in 1985. |
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| Surrounding wells are tested annually for
cadmium and lead. They are tested monthly for coliform
bacteria. |
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| Agricultural Drainage Ditches |
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| Two ditches run north-south 0.25 miles east
and 0.25 miles west of Quick Avenue. The ditches release
the material they carry 8 miles south of town into the
ocean. |
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| The water contains nitrate, high Total Dissolved
Solids (TDS), Ametryn, and animal fecal matter. |
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| Gasoline Storage Tanks |
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Site 1 - Go-Go Gasoline, 3500 Somewhere
Ave. (corner of Somewhere Ave. and Quick Ave.). Above
ground storage tank leaked and contaminated the soil to
a depth of 8 feet. It did not reach the ground water. |
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Site 2 - Fossil Fuel Gas Station, 1326 Howdy
Road. Underground gasoline storage tank leaked and
contaminated the groundwater immediately below the site.
The gasoline contamination plume is 300 feet long by 200
feet wide, heading northeast. Gasoline components
include: Benzene |
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