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What Is Done on a Hazardous Waste Site?

What Is Done on a Hazardous Waste Site?. Looking at a Typical Hazardous Waste Problem. Introduction. What we will discuss and learn - What does a Typical Waste Site Look Like? - What are the pathways into the environment? - What Does an Environmental Engineer do?

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What Is Done on a Hazardous Waste Site?

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  1. What Is Done on a Hazardous Waste Site? Looking at a Typical Hazardous Waste Problem Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  2. Introduction • What we will discuss and learn - What does a Typical Waste Site Look Like? - What are the pathways into the environment? - What Does an Environmental Engineer do? - Are there any Waste Sites nearby (in Newark) - Should YOU become an Environmental Engineer? Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  3. What Does A Hazardous Waste Site Look Like? Plant 1 Fernald Site Plant 4 Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  4. What are The Pathways Into the Environment? Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  5. So What Do Environmental Engineers Do? Radwaste Tank and Extraction Bridge Radon Control Atop a Radwaste Tank Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  6. Sometimes We Build Things Nighttime Concrete Pour Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  7. And Sometimes We Don’t! Demolition of Water Tank Demolition of Plant 7 Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  8. Are There Any Site Nearby? Diamond Alkali Site Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  9. Are There Any Site Nearby? • Are there many in the Newark area? Within the City of Newark Alone there are as many as 130 Identified Hazardous Waste Sites!! Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  10. Where to Get More Information • Go to www.cqs.com/super_nj.htm • Go to www.state.us.nj/dep/ • Go to www.epa.gov/Region2/ Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  11. Should You Become An Environmental Engineer? • There’s a Growing Demand! • Environmental engineers have favorable job opportunities. • Employment of environmental engineers is expected to increase much faster than the average through 2014. • A shift in the emphasis toward prevention of Problems rather than Clean-up of current problems will spur demand Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  12. Should You Become An Environmental Engineer? • There are Many Rewards • Good Staring Salaries – BS starting around $48,000 per year • The salary versus time curve for environmental engineers is marked with rapid, significant increases early in the career. • You get to do work which is helping to secure the survival of the planet. Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

  13. Should You Become An Environmental Engineer? • There’s Work All Over the World Science Park HS -- Honors Chemistry Class

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