Superfund365 is an innovative website that will, over the course of one year, profile 365 differrent man-made toxic catastrophes by featuring one superfund site per day. From Manhattan to Oahu there are many locales that are
listed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and run the gamut from former military
installations to factories that leached such
niceties as radioactive materials or PCBs into
groundwater. Superfund sites present a very real and
nasty health threat and the 365 on this list
continue to expose its neighbors to poisons left over
from industrial operations that were swept under the
carpet rather than properly decommissioned.
The site is skillfully assembled with some Flash animation
and provides interesting tidbits such as the
history of the superfund site, the racial makeup and economic
background of immediate neighbors. In fact, this past Tuesday I learned of a former chemical factory in New
Jersey that’s now 85-acres of toxic marsh within 10
miles of the New York City metropolitan area.
The project […]
Original post by Jacob Resneck
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