Assignment:
Your assignment should be 8 pages (including title page and bibliography), Times New Roman font 12 point, double spaced sentences. Your assignment should include photographs and images of you superfund site. The images should not be any larger than two inches in height. About like this:
Your graphs and tables, however, should be large enough to be legible.
Be sure to use correct ID-text citation protocol and references, including citation of images you get off of the Internet. APA style is preferred. Please input a title page and a reference page in addition to the six pages. You moat include at least one citation from a peer-reviewed journal article,
Go to Goo& Earth, Google Maps, or MapQuest to locate the superfund site that you are interested in investigating. Some suggestions are provided below; however, you are not limited to these sites.
• Ridgewood Queens, NY (site of former Wolff-Alport Chemical Company)
• Newtown Creek, Queens, Brooklyn, NY
INTRODUCTION
1) What is the problem or issue that you are addressing? For example, what pollutants are found in these locations?
RESEARCH
2) Describe the historical perspective on this problem/issue. Include the background information on how this became a problem/issue.
3) When were the problems/issues realized and what kinds of risk assessments were done in order to realize the problem/issue? Refer to Toxicology Tutor to help you better understand Risk Assessment.
4) What are the potential toxins that may have affected a community?
5) What media (e.g. soil, air, water, etc.) did those toxins travel through?
6) Where there (or are there) direct effects from toxic poisoning in a community? This may include wildlife as well as humans.
7) What scientific data were used to verify the problem/issue? Show data charts and graphs. These should be large enough so I can read and interpret them. This is the most important part of the research section.
POLICY AND REMEDIATION
8) What policy took place in order to remediate this problem/issue? Who was economically responsible for remcdiation?
9) What was the actual remediation procedure used to address this problem?
CONCLUSION
10) Where do we stand today on understanding this problem/issue? What will you do to personally help change the problems/issues Like these in the future?