Health Protection Tips

What chemical contaminants are present in dry cleaning agents? What are the potential health effects?

. List five health effects of pesticides?

. Where should you report environmental damage or health effects due to any facility dealing with hazardous chemicals in your neighborhood?
10. What steps would you propose to your town to clean up an oil spill? Look up the term remediation and suggest three techniques that would be useful.

There are natural sources of mercury contamination (volcanic eruption) and man-made emissions (coal burning, metal processing, waste incineration).
The emissions themselves may be so slight as to be undetectable, but mercury accumulates in the food chain, gradually increasing in concentration as it moves up the food chain.
Here is an interesting article that will answer all your questions:
http://water.usgs.gov/wid/FS_216-95/FS_216-95.html

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