Monday Week Three

...some questions for today...

1.As of early Friday afternoon, the map is all blue; is the WV Water Crisis over? Why didn't Louisville shut down their water intake on the Ohio river in anticipation of the arrival of the Charletown Plume?

2. What is CERCLA? What is SARA? What is Superfund? What are the goals of CERCLA+SARA? Are the goals all compatible with one another? Are the goals compatible with the agencies of the US Federal Government as PRPs? What is an "orphan" site? What is the National Priorities List? How are we doing on the NPL? What is the TRI program? Why is the Velsicol site in St. Louis, MI a Superfund site? Why are we looking at TRI facilities that do not release directly into the water?

3. What % of our class drinks surface water back home? How does this differ from the US as a whole?

4. What is water quality? What are some potential metrics of water quality? Why must we consider the intended use of a water resource in order to determine its quality as sufficient of insufficient?

Slides from today are on Sakai. Your "reading" for Wednesday is Daily Show and Cobert Report coverage of the WV Water Crisis from Monday January 13th. Daily Show coverage can be found on this video from 0:00  to 8:50 (everything before the first commercial break). The entire section for the Cobert Report is on this video.

warning 1: If you are unfamiliar (at least conceptually) with the Daily Show and the Cobert Report, you may want to read this and this.

warning 2: Please consider that sometimes the Daily Show and the Cobert Report choose to sacrifice accuracy for hilarity.

warning 3: These videos may contain insensitive remarks about West Virginia and its inhabitants; my assigning these videos should not be inferred as an endorsement, implicit or explicit of their content.