You will be writing about this superfundsite: Ridgewood Queens, NY (site of former Wolff-Alport Chemical Company) https://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/E2D8834A2871A29585257C3E005AF1A4 -please use the website provided to help you with the assignment. Answer the following questions in this order in the essay: 1. What is the problem or issue that you are addressing? For example, what pollutants are found in
- Describe the historical perspective on this problem/issue. Include the background information on problem/issue.
these locations?
how this became a
- When were the problems/issues realized and what kinds of risk assessments were done in order to realize the problem/issue? Refer to Toxicology Tutor to help you better understand Risk Assessment (https://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/toxtutor.html)
4) What are the potential toxins that may have affected a community?
5) What media (e.g. soil, air, water, etc.) did those toxins travel through?
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