Do You Live Near a Toxic Superfund Site? | National Geographic

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In 1980, the U.S. Congress created the Superfund program, which identified and cleaned up areas polluted by hazardous waste. Decades later, nearly one in six Americans still lives within three miles of a major hazardous waste site, though few people could tell you where it is.
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@NatGeo 9 лет назад

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@AllhailtheUS 9 лет назад

Right down the road from me is a Superfund site. I doubt that many in my community even know it exists. I stumbled across the Superfund site and was shocked to see what I grew up thinking was a BP oil area was actually a dioxin-soaked polluted site. There is a 8-foot barbed wire fence to keep the curious out... oh, and it happens to be one of the 1300 not cleaned up. Yay.

@Pantheragatos 9 лет назад

It said that I lived 27 miles from two of them. I used to live on the East coast, it's better here in NC than in NJ!

@theurbanthirdhomestead Год назад

I don't understand why the companies who did it aren't held accountable.

@BostonJon420 2 года назад

Hanford is one of if not the worst ones. I've lived by it all my life and never knew how bad it was there. It's still bad and the cleanup crew keeps mishandling things. Oh and Trump cut funding for it. Now I wonder just how much the health of the people here has been affected by this site.

@madameblackimusprime Год назад

Superfund sounds like super fun. Somebody please change the name.

@toxicSantaSusana

The Santa Susana Field Lab outside of Los Angeles is a California superfund site, but it's not on the national registry. That doesn't keep it from being toxic and radioactive.

@neisy2362 9 лет назад

No XL Pipeline. We are poisoning ourselves!

@williamkennison8920 9 лет назад

Yes I do happen to live near a Superfund site in Tacoma, WA.

@alek488 5 лет назад

There is a super fund site in my town of Holbrook MA. It’s the braid and McGuire chemical plant

@94SexyStang 3 года назад

YEP! 5 minutes from me........the whole state of NJ is a superfund site, LOL.......all the rivers look dead, won't see any fish unless they're imported...still won't eat them!

@BobLite-pf8qf

Fished swam mudlarked in and all around that lake as i grew up a few blocks away, my mom lived right around the corner at the time and to submit health reports to the gov once a month or so to monitor the health of the population in about a five mile radius

@sprites0da 2 года назад

my hometown has a superfund site somewhere. i think its some lumber plant or something like that its in yamhill county

@guitarest452452 3 года назад

I grew up and am currently living by 3 different sights all 5 blocks from my house. One of the sites could be seen from my old back yard. This is not including times beach, MO which is 20 mins away. The sites near my house are contaminated with Cadmium, Chromium, Creosote, Asbestos, Lead, Arsenic, and Pentacholorphenol. They found samples in soil and groundwater. It don't help that it flood here multiple times through Spring and Summer seasons.

@zx10dev87 4 года назад

There are like a couple in my city

@BobLite-pf8qf

Lipari landfill and Alcyon lake in pitman nj the worst superfund site in federal government history

@brodiejohnson1947 9 лет назад

Butte is actually pretty cool.

@jonbishop9062 4 года назад

Oklahoma has some!

@paulanull6521 9 лет назад

Yes, live next to and sort of over a superfund site. Our superfund ruined our water supply to the point we need to buy water and have it piped into our city. There is also a land site poisoned for most likely forever. I buy my drinking water or filter it. I will use the imported water for baths, dishes etc. but not for drinking or cooking. Why? Because as a suburb we get our water from Phoenix, AZ.