Poisoned Waters-Frontline Video
Video is here:
http://physics.hpa.edu/physics/apenvsci/videos/poisoned_waters/POISONED_WATERS.mp4
High quality version is here:
http://physics.hpa.edu/physics/apenvsci/videos/poisoned_waters/poisoned_waters.m4v
You may find it helpful to download this into your own computer: hold the option key while clicking on the link.
Context:
- Water Pollution-air pollution-climate change
- Watersheds, transit time
- water pollution:continuity, local until ocean,
Segments:
Segment 1: Chesapeake bay: 00-45:00
- Chesapeake watershed
- EPA CWA 1970
- Perdue/hog Ag farms, Eutrophication
Segment 2: Potomac River: 45:00-54:00
- Endocrine disrupters-drinking water
Segment 3: Puget Sound: 54:00-1:33:00
- Bioaccumulation-PCB Killer Whales
- Boeing-PCBs from runways
- Runoff-water transit time King County
Segment 4: FairFax County, VA: 1:33:00-1:54:00
- Tyson’s corner-transit time, sediment runoff
- Loudon county-traffic planning
- Arlington-urban planning
Questions:
Chesapeake Bay
- Why is it useful to get the historical view of the craggy old fishermen?
- How are the fish an indicator species?
- How large is the Chesapeake watershed?
- Why is this bay uniquely vulnerable?
- What causes dead zones in the film?
- What is the global trend in dead zones? where?
- What three basic functions of the bay will likely be lost to your generation?
- What was different 40 years ago?
- What was the cause and effect process of Earth Day and the EPA?
- Did Nixon back the clean water act? Explain.
- What were the key tenets of the CWA?
- What were the initial actions of the EPA?
- RFK jr. says he could not swim in the Hudson, Charles or Potomac. Where are these?
- Why did you have to take a shower if you fell into these rivers?
- What was the Potomac point source pollution source described in the film?
- What is BNR and how does it work?
- What is not removed from human wastewater with BNR that concerns us?
- How did Reagan’s policies impact the EPA and pollution regulation?
- What is “voluntary compliance” and did it work? explain.
Factory farms
- What is the biggest danger with concentrated animal farms/ CAFOs (poultry, pigs, cows)?
- Look up why we have different names for the same animals: cow/beef,chicken/poultry, pig/pork
- Why is it advantageous for Perdue to subcontract chicken operations?
- What is vertical integration?
- What was the national response to cheap chicken?
- If you were to put chicken manure on your garden, you could burn your plants. why?
- On the way downhill to the coast, there is an egg factory that went out of business, who now sells “manure compost”. Where did this come from, and how is it a good deal for them?
- Why does not Perdue own the chicken waste, if they own the chickens? How does the Perdue guy dodge the problem?
- What is the difference between city waste and ag waste?
- What does the chicken guy say about deer?
- What did the chicken lobby in Maryland (Eastern shore) do about pollution regulation? why?
- How is this similar to the Iowa corn ethanol lobby?
- RFK Jr. describes two things: externalized costs and subsidies. What does he mean by these?
Endocrine disrupters
- Why are not endocrine disrupters part of the clean water act?
- What is intersex in the male bass? what causes this?
- How does the concept of river continuity impact endocrine disrupters?
- Do they need to be very concentrated to be effective?
- A person flushes birth control pills (hormones) or other drugs down the drain. How can this impact someone living many miles downstream?
- Why are these hormones not filtered by water treatment plants?
- What is “synergism”? Why is it critical here?
Puget Sound
- How cold is the water in Puget Sound? Why is this relevant?
- Why do the apex predators have the highest concentration of PCB?
- What is a sentinel species? why is this relevant?
- Which population of humans is now showing similar health effects?
- What is Superfund, who funds it?
- What is the biggest liability problem with the Boeing dioxin situation?
- What is the concept of “deep pockets”?
- Why would native Americans be the indicator species in the Duomish river?
- Is South Park (not the tv show) upper income or lower, immigrant or not? Why is this important?
- On the AP exam, you will be expected to know all about Love Canal. How is this similar?
- What do you think is coming out of the pipe underwater in the video?
- Why are “impervious surfaces” so bad for the Puget Sound?
- Why do folks get upset about oceanic oil spills and not the stuff you see in the video?
- What is the difference in "transit time" for rain water hitting concrete vs. soil?
- Ron Sims has enemies in King county. Who?
- How is the Growth Management Act/Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO) similar to the Urban Growth Boundaries (UGB) concept in Portland Oregon (we'll see this in the Portland e2 video)
- Look up the CAO now. How is it going?
Fairfax
- Look up Tyson’s corner. What did it look like in 1945?
- Would Tyson’s corner have been successful without cars?
- How is Tyson’s corner like Los Angeles?
- How is Arlington different from Tyson’s corner?
- In a sense, US cities are learning to become more like older European cities. Why are they different?
- What is the meaning of the phrase “canary in the coal mine” and where did this term come from?
- According to the narrator and Governor of Washington, what is a necessary part of the solution?
- What is your part in this future?
Summary questions:
1. You have chosen the water treatment manager for a small town in Doofania that gets its water from a river, with Uglyopolis upstream and Ya-ya town downstream. What steps would you take to make sure you and the other towns are getting clean water, and describe impact of an upstream sewage plant in Uglyopolis and a nuclear power plant on the river in Ya-ya town.
2. From the Poisoned Waters Frontline video, choose one of the stories and explain why it is important to you, what it explained, and how it relates to your work.
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