Nitrogen from waste treatment plants, leaching contaminants from surrounding landfills, runoff from the Belt Parkway and airplane fuel threatened the remaining natural resources — including the 330 bird and 80 fish species that Barry Sullivan, general superintendent of Gateway for the National Park Service, said have been logged in the area.
Mr. Heebe had become a target of an investigation surrounding a landfill he owned.
By 1980, several state and federal emergency declarations led to an emergency appropriation that helped purchase residences in the larger neighborhood surrounding the landfill, known as the Emergency Declaration Area (EDA).
Similarly, in a study of a community in South Wales surrounding a landfill site, Fielder et al. (2000) found no excess in all-cause mortality, cancer mortality, or respiratory disease.
Paddy rice fields directly surround the landfill, except in the Northwestern part, where small agglomeration of households limits the site.
Chemical Waste Management said its study showed instead that the level of PCBs surrounding the Kettleman Hills landfill in Central California was similar to contamination found in rural areas across the country, even in the remote wilderness.
By Vann R. Newkirk II January 16, 2016 Despite an agreement with the surrounding community, the landfill in Rogers-Eubanks, outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, has continued to expand over the past forty years.
A total of 200 surface soil (0 15 cm) samples were collected from arable lands surrounding a polluted landfill site and scanned via VisNIR DRS. The raw reflectance spectra were preprocessed using three spectral transformations for predicting soil total As and five extracted pools using partial least squares regression (PLSR).
As she waited for help, she swatted away swarming flies and thought about how her child would soon fill its lungs with the stink of the landfill surrounding their home.
Surrounded by landfills, and toxic and hazardous facilities, Altgeld Gardens is located in a "toxic doughnut".
