1 / 26

Window to My Environment

Window to My Environment. Tom Brody Region 5 US EPA (Chicago). IT IS FREE!!. www.epa.gov/enviro/wme. 54136. Multi-Activities – Facilities covered by two or more of the other regulated site features. T. T.

anneliese-panagos
Download Presentation

Window to My Environment

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Window to My Environment Tom Brody Region 5 US EPA (Chicago)

  2. IT IS FREE!!

  3. www.epa.gov/enviro/wme

  4. 54136

  5. Multi-Activities –Facilities covered by two or moreof the other regulated site features. T T Superfund – Facilities designated by EPA to respond to concerns over health and environmental risks posed by hazardous waste. T T Toxic Releases – Specific facilities regulated by EPA that must report to state and local governments the locations and quantities of any chemical stored on site. T T T Water Discharge – Specific facilities that are regulated by EPA to discharge to US waters. Air Emissions – Specific facilities regulated by EPA that release pollutants into the air. BRS (Biennial Reporting System) – Specific facilities regulated by EPA that collect data on the generation, management, and minimization of hazardous waste. Hazardous Waste – Specific facilities regulated by EPA that handle materials designated as hazardous waste.

  6. Hazardous waste

  7. Schools, Churches, Hospitals – Extracts from the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), which is part of EPA’s National Shape File Repository. T T T Highways - The Highways layer is extracted from the Department of Transportation's Office of Geographic Information Services Streets - The Street layer is from US Census Bureau’s Census 2000 TIGER/Line.

  8. Impaired Water Bodies/Streams – From the section 303(d) (impaired waters) prioritized list of waters that do not meet EPA’s water quality standards. Water Bodies/Streams - From the US Geological Survey National Hydrography Dataset (NHD). Demographics - From the US Census Bureau’s Population and Housing 1990 Summary Tape File 3A (STF-3A). T T T

  9. Congressional Districts, City Boundaries, and Counties – From the USGS Map Layers Warehouse. States - From the US Census Bureau’s Census 2000 TIGER/Line files. T T Special/Moderate Flood Hazard Areas - Retrieved in real-time from ESRI's Geography Network. It depicts the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Digital Q3 Flood Data. T Air Monitors - From the Aerometric Information Retrieval System (AIRS) operated by EPA Office of Air Quality Planning And Standards. T Water Monitors - Retrieved in real-time from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) NWIS website. T

  10. Geographic Portal Uses ArcIMS technology A Work In Progress What Is WME?

  11. Not a Predictive or Simulation Tool Not Temporally Standardized Not Finished What WME Isn’t

  12. Dave Catlin 202.566.0694 Catlin.Dave@epamail.epa.gov Tom Brody 312.353.8340 Brody.Tom@epa.gov Comments? Questions? Ideas? www.epa.gov/enviro/wme

More Related