Soil contamination

the Trail Team. Factors for a lack of funding are no start-up funds and a withdrawal of donors for the tower. The plan of action for this risk is to explore cheaper design options. 5.2 Risk: Soil Quality There is a medium to low possibility for the location of the observation tower have a poor soil quality, which would also cause the tower to have a low-quality foundation. The impact that this risk…

Your yard and gardens are the first things people see when they approach your home, so you want them to always look their best. The landscape experts at Hanson Aggregates in Cleves, OH, recommend you use landscaping stones in your next landscaping project. Here’s why. Landscaping Stones Add Visual Interest: The variations in color and texture of landscaping stones offer an attractive contrast to your green lawn. And they last through any kind of weather, year after year. You’ll Do Less…

Introduction: Have you ever wondered what western mixed conifer forests would look like without fire suppression tactics? A reduction in fire suppression would allow mixed conifer forests to burn at one severity instead of multiple severities, such as in the School Forest. The School Fire in 2005 burned at different severities across the 21,000 ha of land near Pomeroy, Washington. The fire burned at three different severity levels: low, medium, and high. These three levels impacted the 21,000 ha…

I believe the Rapanui walked the statues 11 miles across what is now known as Easter Island. The Rapanui are peoples who lived in the island. The only information we know from the Rapanui about the statues walked across the island. The first reason I believe the statues were rolled on wooden sledges is because that is so much easier for a human than to pull them with ropes. "In 1998, a group of scientists put the sledge-and-roller theory to the test, using a 10-ton replica of a statue and 70…

While determining the differences between two different sagebrush communities and the north/south aspect, I accept my hypothesis that there was a differences in the plant cover in a sagebrush community that has seen burning, and/or on a north aspect. The data shows that there are clear differences between the burned/unburned sites and the north/south aspect sites. The only time that two of the sights had the same amount of plant cover of the same plant community was in Figure 1 where there was…

Salt water marsh provide ecosystems to many type of wildlife. But in the past two centauries there has been many dangers to the marshes. Rising sea level has became a major problem for today’s environment, particularly the pacific coast marshes and wetlands, according to Dr. Glen Macdonald’s research. He has done research on how the sea level rising is affecting the marshes. His research has been focused on the 14 salt water marshes along the pacific coast, ranging from Tijuana to the northern…

Interpretation Acid-mine drainage occurs when sulfide-bearing waste rock and tailings come in contact with waters containing dissolved oxygen. The resulting oxidation reactions release associated metals and acidity, which may impact the biological community and significantly lower the pH of downstream waterways (Army, 2010). Released metals that are transported downstream may be removed from solution through precipitation of and sorption onto iron and manganese hydroxides. Attenuation of metals…

Nuclear Accidents: Chernobyl and Fukushima President Franklin D. Roosevelt cited December 7, 1941 as “a date that will live in infamy.” Two dates in like manner of infamy pertinence to nuclear catastrophe are April 26, 1986 in Chernobyl, Ukraine and March 11, 2011 in Fukushima, Japan. Both incidents embroil a disaster at a nuclear facility exposing radioactive materials and setting unprecedented score the nuclear severity scale. Be that as it may numerous differences arises in terms of causes,…

For the project we had in Mr. Sanders Physical science class this nine week I choose to read “The Radioactive Boy Scout.” The book was about a boy named David Hahn who grew up in suburban Detroit. David was fascinated by science and while he was working on earning his Atomic Energy badge for boy scouts, David’s attention turned to nuclear energy. He started working on building a nuclear reactor in his backyard garden shed. Working as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor…

destroyed. People responded to this by trying to get mining industries to take responsibility for what they caused, The Baia Mare Gold Mine (North-Western Romania). First of all, two major impacts the cyanide spill had on humans was food and water contamination. Unless cyanide wasn’t ingested in large quantities, it wasn’t a major threat to human health. But many officials took action by banning the diet of fishes located in or near the river. According to the article “Romania’s Cyanide…