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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Superfund"”.
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The socioeconomic impacts of the Superfund program
The student, Alexander Stevens, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-07-08 at 10:48.
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Negotiating better Superfund settlements : prospects and protocols
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1988.
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A Survey of Superfund Chemicals in Massachusetts Farms
… that detected compounds migrated from nearby EPA Superfund sites. Theses results indicate that there is no systemic contamination associated with transport between historic EPA Superfund sites and contemporary organic farms in Massachusetts. The low concentrations of these elements found in this …
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Super Fun Superfund: Polluted Protection Along the Gowanus Canal
<p>This research reflects on the patterns of uneven development occurring in the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, social and physical changes taking place there, and how these elements of the canal relate to the changing purpose of urban waterways. Gowanus has mimicked the development of New York City …
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Assessing Risk of Superfund Sites to Natural Hazards within Texas
No abstract prepared.
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Restoring the "Shining Waters": Milltown, Montana and the History of Superfund Implementation
… river restoration within the nation's largest Superfund site. In 1981, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency included Milltown Reservoir on its first list of Superfund sites. Superfund law capped two decades of the federal government's most aggressive environmental legislation. While …
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Exploring Public Participation Decision-making at Superfund Sites: A Mental Models Approach
… methodology to explore what people engaged in Superfund site cleanup decisions think about when making public participation decisions. The intent is to find better ways of engaging people in constructive processes that achieve mutual understanding and lead to better decisions.</p> <p>An initial …
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Restoring the "Shining Waters": Milltown, Montana and the History of Superfund Implementation
… river restoration within the nation's largest Superfund site. In 1981, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency included Milltown Reservoir on its first list of Superfund sites. Superfund law capped two decades of the federal government's most aggressive environmental legislation. While …
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Exploring Public Participation Decision-making at Superfund Sites: A Mental Models Approach
… methodology to explore what people engaged in Superfund site cleanup decisions think about when making public participation decisions. The intent is to find better ways of engaging people in constructive processes that achieve mutual understanding and lead to better decisions.</p> <p>An initial …
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Subsurface characterization of the Massachusetts Military Reservation main base landfill Superfund site
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Massachusetts Military Reservation Superfund site did costs and benefits matter in remediation decisions?
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Reading contamination : an environmental education center at the Wells G&H Superfund Site
This thesis proposes and architectural and programmatic methodology which makes legible the processes and consequences of site contamination. This methodology is chiefly demonstrated through a plan for the site which emerges from the examination of the intersection of site contamination with the …
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Achieving Environmental Justice for the Community of Opportunity, Montana: An Assessment of Superfund Concerns
… by an area many consider to be the largest Superfund site in the United States. The nearby Opportunity Ponds is a major consolidation area for mining-related contaminated wastes in the state of Montana, and Opportunity residents have voiced concerns about their well water, windblown dust, …
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Achieving Environmental Justice for the Community of Opportunity, Montana: An Assessment of Superfund Concerns
… by an area many consider to be the largest Superfund site in the United States. The nearby Opportunity Ponds is a major consolidation area for mining-related contaminated wastes in the state of Montana, and Opportunity residents have voiced concerns about their well water, windblown dust, …
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Technical uncertainties in aquifer restoration, implications for remedial systems design, and Superfund policy implementation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Redutive Dehalogenation of Chlorinated Alkanes by Novel Bacteria at the PetroProcessor of Louisiana Inc. Superfund Site
… the PetroProcessors of Louisiana, Inc. (PPI) Superfund site. Two novel, strictly anaerobic bacterial strains, designated as BL-DC-8 and BL-DC-9, were isolated from the enrichment culture. These strains represent the first bacteria known to anaerobically dehalogenate 1,2,3-trichloropropane, the …
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Environmental Equity: Gradient Measures of Race and Social Class in the Areas Surrounding Pennsylvania Superfund Sites
… areas surrounding the 120 National Priority List Superfund hazardous waste sites in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Using three distinct concentric distance measures, the study uses 1990 census tract data to determine whether Nonwhite and low-income populations live in closest proximity to …
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Uncertainty of risk to human health from groundwater impacted by the Massachusetts Military Reservation Superfund site landfill
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1996.
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Characterization of resistance to halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons in a population of Fundulus heteroclitus from a marine superfund site
New Bedford Harbor (NBH), MA, is contaminated with halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons HAH including some potent aryl hydrocarbon receptor AhR agonists. To determine if Fundulus heterocitus from NBH have developed resistance to HAll, we examined the inducibility of cytochrome P4501A1 CYP1A1 in fish …
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A GIS-Based Comparative Study of Superfund Contaminants and the Threat They Represent to Eastern Harris County Communities
There are six Texas Superfund sites that can be found in Eastern Harris County along the San Jacinto River. Three sites north of the I-10 overpass include the French Limited (FLTD), Sikes Disposal Pits (SDP) and Highlands Acid Pits (HAP), all of which contain benzene, metals, Methyl Tert-Butyl …
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