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okay?
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Yeah.
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Hi,
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I'm Jordan Wet, and I'm doing the Waterloo Super file.
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The goal is I want to learn more about the water.
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The Superfund, of course, about when it started and when it ended.
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I would like to know how or what machines they used to remove the chemicals
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from the soil up if they used any more chemicals or just to abolish those,
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um, the coal tar from the soil.
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Mhm
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vocabulary poly nuclear aromatic hydrocarbons.
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It is a class of chemicals usually found in coal, oil,
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gas or gasoline right below the vocabulary that I just said.
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It's also chemicals that can be found in crude oil, which is something different
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also found in seawater.
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Here's a map
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of the Waterloo, super fun
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as well. It's circled with
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and,
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um, with the red dot and there's an arrow, and that's in Iowa,
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and
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I believe the county is Black Hawk. I'm not for sure, but I'm pretty sure it is
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okay.
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Mhm.
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And
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if you go back to the vocabulary,
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crude oil is a mixture of hydrocarbons that exists in
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liquid phase and natural underground Reserve ear's as well.
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Background information of E. P.
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A E p A is working to gather a group and help the environment.
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E Patient in December 2nd 1970 All EP wants for us is to have safe water,
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drinking environment or just a safe environment in general.
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So when they found out that the Waterloo has in trouble and there was a colt
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a gasification, they wanted to help immediately.
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Yes,
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The Waterloo gasification is the location of a formal manufacturer.
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The Waterloo is located in Iowa as well. Gas, lighting and heating purposes
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They eat that they used were from 1901
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once
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the E. P A found a solution. They immediately took action.
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More details.
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The majority of the Waterloo site is presently owned by a utility company.
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They manufactured gas for lighting,
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and the soil got contaminated with metals and chemicals.
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The site was also located along the Cedar River.
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What are the health hazards?
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The health hazards would be poor landscaping problems as well as mining problems,
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which means they wouldn't be able to go mine
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and look for some good stuff. Um, and it would cause a problem,
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so it would probably be paused for a little while.
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If this is not helpful to our landscaping or even plantation.
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It can hurt all of our bodies, and we could get very sick.
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As you already know, we're already in a pandemic, so we don't need any more sickness
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community. There's a lot of poverty.
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There is about half and half of people of color as well. Or, as you might say, race.
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There's many people below the poverty line, which means they get very small income,
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which means there
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I actually get paid
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so
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current status.
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The workers who are trying to clean the coal
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tar spent five years of treatment to clean.
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The land also took five years to evaluate, to clean the coal tar
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so the EPA can protect human health.
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The next five-year review for the land will be in 2023, so a little more than a year
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Cost.
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Overall, all the money spent for cleaning the land from coal tar is $1 million,
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which is a lot just to clean land, even in 20
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Even in 2021.
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We have a lot of technology now that we can
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use like phones and cameras and those electric vacuums,
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and we still can't figure out a way a good way to clean the land faster.
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Here's links to stories and videos, articles and e. T. C.
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These videos teach us what a coal gasification is
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and what products they used to help the situation.
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My questions are how many people were affected.
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I know that poverty is in the community is affected. But
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what is the number?
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Did the coal gasification make anyone pass away or is it very deadly?
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Because I know it can make us sick. But can
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it make us,
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like,
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die? Or is it very deadly?
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These are my references with, um M l A form.
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And here is that
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Thank you guys. So much for listening.
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And I'm really glad that y'all got to listen to me.
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Speak about the Waterloo Super fun.