Ashley Treatment

10 Observations/Questions 10 Generalized: 1. Observation – Some trees around campus have tags on them stating the species of tree. Question – Why does Manchester tag the trees? Does the tagging of trees affect the trees at all? 2. Observation – One of the trees between Oakwood and the Administration building has had its branches cut/trimmed for aesthetic purposes, I assume. Question – How does the tree respond to this? Can those branches grow back? Or will it remain a nub? 3. Observation –…

According to this article, the tap water in Flint, Michigan became toxic due to the governor’s office and the state Department of Environmental Quality. They were aware of how toxic the water of the Flint river is but decided to ignore the issue and did not treat the water properly. One of the reasons of why they decided to to switch their water supply from Lake Huron to Flint river was because Flint was declared to be in a financial state of emergency and so they took a budgetary control.…

The quality of the water in the creek was excellent. Even though the water quality in the U-High creek was excellent doesn’t mean that all creeks have great water quality. One way that water can be polluted is through fertilizers and pesticides. This happens because farmers use many fertilizers and pesticides to help their crops grow. Then when it rains, those chemicals can be washed through the soil and into rivers and creeks. If this happens and large amounts of chemicals are washed in the…

The past solutions that we researched were dealing with the Valleycrest Landfill Superfund Site and the Powell Road Landfill. The first past solution that we researched about was the Valleycrest Landfill Superfund Site. The Valleycrest Landfill site is 100 acres and it is separated into two sections by Valleycrest Drive: the east and west section. The Valleycrest Landfill is located on 950 Brandt Pike in Dayton, Ohio, right above the Great Miami Aquifer. This aquifer is the sole source of…

When people mention the state of Michigan there is nothing really positive that comes to mind because as a whole, the state is not doing very well for itself. Especially with Flint, Michigan being all over the news because of the unsafe water issue, most people think of it as another issue going on in the already suffering state. People fail to realize that Flint; Michigan was actually a thriving city at one point because it is where General Motors was founded. The nation fails to realize that…

South Sudan’s Water Story Water is a necessity for all, yet only a limited amount of people have access to water in South Sudan. Even in that limited amount of people, a fraction of them have access to potable water. Only nineteen countries in Africa are estimated to meet the Millennium Development Goals (Saliu). Oftentimes, the people of South Sudan are forced to consume contaminated water thus this water and sanitation crisis consequently resulted in 400,000 water-related deaths in Africa…

Another motivation for the renovation of Paris was the “putrid” condition of the city’s waste systems, which filled the streets with garbage, horse manure, and human waste. Essentially, the medieval system of garbage disposal was to deposit it on the street on the Seine. Haussmann and Napoleon II sought to create massive sewage systems to remedy this form of waste management policy, which sought to reduce poor hygiene and the transmission of disease throughout the city. The premise of a new…

hydrochloric acid, calcium oxide etc which is potentially unsafe to purge directly into the environment. Sludge by waste water treatment: The significant solid wastes such as lime mud, lime slaker grits, green liquor dregs, boiler and furnace ash, scrubber sludges, wood processing residuals and wastewater treatment sludges are generated from different mills by wastewater treatment. Greenhouse gas emissions: The major air emissions of the pulp and paper industry come from sulfite mills as…

All households that have been identified by UASs as having straight pipe discharge is potential household for conducting socioeconomic study. We will use a simple random sampling method to select the interview respondent so that each social actor (in this case each household) in the neighborhood will have equal probability of being interviewed. Depending on the number of households, we will interview 20 -30 percent households that has straight pipe. We will also include about the same number of…

burning, pain, cramping, nausea, and liver toxicity. Some other significant side effects include kidney impairment, fluid retention, blood clot, heart attacks, hypertension, and heart failure. In recent studies, rainbow trout living near wastewater treatment plants were exposed to diclofenac.^5 Rainbow trout that were exposed to this drug appreciated a buildup of the drug itself and its metabolites in their bile. Other than diclofenac’s effect on rainbow trout, it has induced tubular necrosis in…