Site listing sources and types of heavy metals and other toxins by county

[Guest guest]

I don't know if this site has been posted here before, but it's a

great reasource for finding out what toxins are being released by

industries in your area.

http://www.scorecard.org/ (type in your zipcode to get info on your

county)

I found out that I live very close to several superfund sites

(unbeknownst to most residents I imagine!) I also found, IIRC that

one of those sites was a local college that I live next door to and I

*thought* that I'd read that they had a coal burning generator or

something that had emmission deemed beyond acceptable levels.

I just read on Dana's site that coal burning power plants can be a

source of uranium which COULD explain my high uranium issue. But I

couldn't find reference to the coal burning at this college just now

when I checked the Scorecard site again. So I'm not sure if I'm

remembering wrong. BUT the site tells me all the pollutants by name

that are being released above " acceptable " levels in my county. For

example here are the top 4 in my county:

1 HYDROCHLORIC ACID 79,000 lbs.

2 GLYCOL ETHERS 40,355 lbs.

3 SULFURIC ACID 31,000 lbs.

4 N-BUTYL ALCOHOL lbs.

They have data for the entire US I believe.

It may be helpful in locating the source of *some* of the toxins

we're taking in, FWIW.

Suze

[Guest guest]

This is a really great site, I was on here the other day looking up

sites in my area. There was a Mercury spill on Long Island and was

in the newsday a couple of days ago, So I went to this site to look

up information...They spilled 50 gallons of mercury, I lived less

than 10 miles from there when I was pregnant with my son...It happen

in the 60's The ground is still contaminated.

> I don't know if this site has been posted here before, but it's a

> great reasource for finding out what toxins are being released by

> industries in your area.

>

>

[Guest guest]

> This is a really great site, I was on here the other day looking up

> sites in my area. There was a Mercury spill on Long Island and was

> in the newsday a couple of days ago, So I went to this site to look

> up information...They spilled 50 gallons of mercury, I lived less

> than 10 miles from there when I was pregnant with my son...It

happen

> in the 60's The ground is still contaminated.

Donna,

Where on Long Island was that? Just curious because I was born there

and my parents still visit fairly frequently.

Suze

[Guest guest]

Suze

Am sending you a huge thank-you...will forward this post to others...what a

great source of info....scary, though..but info can be leverage....my county,

essex, MA IS SEVERE....I mean SEVERE.....in toxins...but now i have info...and

it will come in handy....esp with legislators...so thank-you again for sending

this.....Suzanne Messina , Kat Duncan, REAACH (research, education, actio for

autism spectrum children)

Suze Fisher <s.fisher22@...> wrote:

I don't know if this site has been posted here before, but it's a

great reasource for finding out what toxins are being released by

industries in your area.

http://www.scorecard.org/ (type in your zipcode to get info on your

county)

I found out that I live very close to several superfund sites

(unbeknownst to most residents I imagine!) I also found, IIRC that

one of those sites was a local college that I live next door to and I

*thought* that I'd read that they had a coal burning generator or

something that had emmission deemed beyond acceptable levels.

I just read on Dana's site that coal burning power plants can be a

source of uranium which COULD explain my high uranium issue. But I

couldn't find reference to the coal burning at this college just now

when I checked the Scorecard site again. So I'm not sure if I'm

remembering wrong. BUT the site tells me all the pollutants by name

that are being released above " acceptable " levels in my county. For

example here are the top 4 in my county:

1 HYDROCHLORIC ACID 79,000 lbs.

2 GLYCOL ETHERS 40,355 lbs.

3 SULFURIC ACID 31,000 lbs.

4 N-BUTYL ALCOHOL lbs.

They have data for the entire US I believe.

It may be helpful in locating the source of *some* of the toxins

we're taking in, FWIW.

Suze

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