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ESSEX COUNTY NEW YORK. Kora Fortun. Geography. Adirondack Park Lake Champlain Harsh winters. History. Mohawks and Abenakis Established 1799 Elizabethtown. Lake Champlain Watershed. SUPERFUND SITE. Plattsburgh A ir Base (55-91) Soil contamination Tanks removed Soil transplants.
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ESSEX COUNTYNEW YORK Kora Fortun
Geography • Adirondack Park • Lake Champlain • Harsh winters
History • Mohawks and Abenakis • Established 1799 • Elizabethtown
SUPERFUND SITE • Plattsburgh Air Base (55-91) • Soil contamination • Tanks removed • Soil transplants
ENERGY ENERGY
ENVIROTHON • High School Team Competition • Scored on five environmental topics
CLIMATE SMART COMMUNITIES • Essex County • Schroon • Lewis
LEAD • 1978 legislation • Paints • Old pipes • 0.06% of children under 2 • Clinics offer testing • Department of Health
SOIL • Bouldery • Slopes • Clay Loam • Flooding and Fall Plowing • SWCD projects and Field Days
4 unhealthy days for asthmatics • Electricity: 66,342 tons • Stationary Combustion: 82,428 • Transportation: 330,469 • Midwestern States’ factories • Winds move smog air pollution over Northeast AIR
Bakken Shale Oil (North Dakota) • Highly flammable • Through Canada to the Port of Albany • DEC permitted increase from 450 million oil, gas and ethanol to 1.8 billion of crude oil alone • Industry has not provided Dep. Of Transportation with adequate information Crude oil TRAINS