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Topic: Environmental Hazards
After reviewing the instructions for the Unit 3 Assignment and choosing either a Superfund site or sanitary landfill in your community, discuss the potential health risks local residents may experience in relation to the site. What is being done to prevent human exposure to these environmental hazards?

response 1 

Hello everyone,
I decided to discuss a Superfund site in my community. A superfund that I researched in my community was the Westside Lead Site in Atlanta, Georgia. This site was evaluated which determine that there were extremely large amount of lead levels collected from the soil. This could result to lead contamination. There were also smelting waste which was located on two streets in the community of Atlanta, Georgia.
This has also caused health risk to local residents. Those health risk can lead to various acute and chronic diseases. It can also cause irritation to the eyes and throat. There are several solutions that are taken place to prevent this human exposure. One solution was to have the site cleaned up . This involves adding the site to the Superfund program’s National Priorities List which is called the (NPL). This program allows people to collect the funds to have the site cleaned up, which has recently resulted to cleanup activities.
Reference
EPA (2021 October 10). Westside Lead Atlanta, GA Cleanup Activities. Retrieved from https://www.cumulis.epa.gov

response 2
Unit 3: Superfund site- Southside Sanitary Landfill
Mary Smith posted Oct 9, 2021 4:57 PM

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My superfund site I chose is Southside Sanitary Landfill located in central Indiana.
The reason I picked this site was that it is in my home state and very close to where I grew up. I live close enough to this site that I was intrigued by what I found. The site has 312 acres and is still active. Some of the solid waste that was buried here that contaminated soil and groundwater includes coal tar, asbestos, iron oxide and clarifier sludges, and paint waste. This consisted of an estimated 4 million cubic yards of waste. The site was started in 1971 and in 1984 they had tested the groundwater to find contamination. This site was then added to the list in 1989 by the EPA. Cleanup was conducted of landfill liquid collection and treatment. They also have groundwater monitoring that still goes on today. This site was taken off the list in 1997. It now has a golf course and greenhouse gases that are being reused to run Rolls Royce Allison Aircraft plant nearby in 1998. It seems that they have things in place to keep contamination down and repurpose greenhouse gases to fuel electricity.
Looking forward to questions and comments.
Thanks
Mary
References:
https://www.epa.gov/superfund-redevelopment/superfund-sites-reuse-indiana