Let’s Tour America’s Toxic Waste: What’s In Your Neigborhood?

[Are_grits_groceries]

Welcome to toxic America: what a country! Let's take a toxic tour, shall we? Our excellent tour guides at the National Library of Medicine thoughfully prepared the TOXMAP we see above. The red dots show huge toxic messes known as Superfund sites. The blue dots mark the spot where individual factories release several tons of toxic substances. What's red and blue and toxic all over? These United States -- yay us! Just click on the map, and you'll know where to find the Superfund and (some of) the massive toxic release sites in your neighborhood.


Here's a link to TOXMAP. You can find out what's in your neighborhood.:
http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/home/welcome.do

http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/03/lets-tour-americas-toxic-waste-whats-in-your-neigborhood/

I have several near me. I am sooooooooooo happy! I don't think I want to know what precisely was dumped yet.
I'm pulling a Scarlett O'Hara: "I'll think about that tomorrow."

[lamp_shade]

1. Thanks. Very interesting. Bookmarked.

[cali]

2. nothing. looks like my state is pretty damn clean, and my

part of the state is very damn clean. Looks, like it's about the only part of New England that is though.

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. Glad to hear it!

It is scarey though.

[donco6]

4. We have them all over.

One of the largest is in my school district - ASARCO Smelting plant.

http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/land/site.tcl?epa_id=COD007063530

100% contamination record. Arsenic, lead, mercury . . . you name it.

[CrispyQ]

5. Rocky Flats.

At night time, even the light from that place looks toxic.