The Environmental Watchdog MasterThread

DwnWthVwls · 10-13-2018, 10:23 PM

Mostly jet fuel, mercury, and PFAs from WW2 naval operations. This particular site is mostly BTEX. Another site we just started is littered with UXOs from the old shooting range.

Its all public info. Ill try and find our superfund specific site and post it.

Heres some stuff but not what i was looking for:

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cu...cfm?id=0201178

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/Si...ion=02&type=SC

(Mildly interesting, maybe)
I found my job listing from when I applied for the position: https://lensa.com/geographic-informa...2363b7b13b842f

The Batlord · 10-14-2018, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Mostly jet fuel, mercury, and PFAs from WW2 naval operations. This particular site is mostly BTEX. Another site we just started is littered with UXOs from the old shooting range.

DwnWthVwls · 10-14-2018, 06:43 AM

Google is your friend.

Lisnaholic · 10-14-2018, 08:13 AM

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Google is your friend.

^ ...but please make sure that your computer is powered by a wind-turbine on the roof before using the internet.

That is a super-impressive job description DWV! I couldn't do a single thing on the "Tasks include" list, in fact I didn't understand what most of the tasks were. As for the "Minimum Requirements" list, that was so long, it quickly became tl;dr.

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Here's that rare thing, a feel-good story about the environment, although there is a rather alarming statistic right at the end.

As Lilja points out, it's disheartening that small-scale positive action is so dwarfed by damage going on elsewhere:-

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At least in Sweden ....[edit]...the entire environment issue has been taken quite seriously for quite some time. But then, no matter what we do here, it is not being reflected around us. For example, there is a big push here at keeping the local waters around Stockholm (Mälaren) clean. You can fish for herring , pike, perch in the middle of the city, take it home and eat it. No problem. But then, those waters connect with the Baltic sea and there you have countries like Russia and Lithuania pumping out poison into their waters. And we have to work even harder to keep the water clean. It's not fair but we have to do this in order to keep it clean enough for our environment.

The Batlord · 10-14-2018, 10:31 AM

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Google is your friend.

Why wouldn't you make any effort to explain what you were talking about? A post shouldn't be designed in such a way that you need to Google half of it.

DwnWthVwls · 10-14-2018, 12:15 PM

Its contamination from naval activities.

If i told you BTEX is Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene does that really help(found in jet fuel). Its chem stuff i dont know much about either. PFAs are polyfluoroalkalines(sp?) mostly found in fire fighting foam from all the experiments.

UXOs are unexploded ordinances so live ammo and missles in the ground. We are using ground penteating radar to identify it below ground along with metal detectors to begin prep for monitoring well installation and groundwater sampligng.

The Batlord · 10-14-2018, 12:37 PM

What's penteating?

OccultHawk · 10-14-2018, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Its contamination from naval activities.

If i told you BTEX is Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene does that really help(found in jet fuel). Its chem stuff i dont know much about either. PFAs are polyfluoroalkalines(sp?) mostly found in fire fighting foam from all the experiments.

UXOs are unexploded ordinances so live ammo and missles in the ground. We are using ground penteating radar to identify it below ground along with metal detectors to begin prep for monitoring well installation and groundwater sampligng.

DwnWthVwls · 10-14-2018, 02:27 PM

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What's penteating?

Penetrating*

The Batlord · 10-14-2018, 02:28 PM

* *penetrating