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Left:
The
Oblongs: The Oblongs
premiered on Warner Bros. on April 1, 2001. The show features a family deformed by the
chemicals found in the valley where they live. |
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Coffin Butte
Landfill |
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The BOMARC 'nuclear' missile site at Adair, abandoned 1961 |
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The
Public Schools ("one
school has a sample from one water fountain in the building with elevated copper
levels, and 8 of the 16 schools tested so far have one or more water fountains
in the building with elevated lead levels") |
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Dixon
Creek ("nine pesticides, as
well as fecal coliform and E. coli bacteria" - USGS/G-T) |
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| Bottger
Property (Holiday
Inn site - "Residual petroleum
contamination was encountered in soil from approximately 15 to 25 feet below
ground surface. Groundwater is present at the site at
approximately 23 feet below ground surface. Petroleum hydrocarbon constituents
were detected in groundwater." - DEQ) |
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| OSU
("fined $10,400 for 7 DEQ
violations"; "OSU produces more than 2,200 pounds of hazardous waste a
month"; also OSU's section of Oak
Creek: "If the hazardous material is not moved into a new facility and
the existing building floods again resulting in an environmental incident, OSU
could receive further DEQ imposed fines of up to $100,000"; "OSU was
fined for failure to keep flood waters from entering this hazardous waste
storage building";) |
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| East
Corvallis("One out of every
10 fish was found to have liver cancer, a rate 100 times greater than the
'normal' background rate" - OSU) |
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for more ("This
leads the researchers to suspect the water supply as a possible - and perhaps
likely - source. The facility receives its water from a series of wells drawing
from a shallow aquifer in the area just east of Corvallis"-OSU) |
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| Former
United
Chrome site in south Corvallis |
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| ("Chromium
concentrations in both aquifers have been reduced. In the upper aquifer, average
chromium concentrations have been reduced from 1,923 mg/L in August 1988 to 18
mg/L in March 1997. In the deep aquifer, average chromium concentrations have
been reduced from 1.4 mg/L in August 1991 to 0.11 mg/L in March 1997. Cleanup
goals for chromium have been met in 11 or 23 wells in the upper aquifer and six
of seven wells in the deep aquifer.
Approximately 31,363 pounds of chromium have been removed from the upper aquifer
and 96 pounds from the deep aquifer, for a total of 31,459 pounds as of March
1997.Actual costs for pump and treat were $4,637,160 ($3,329,840 in capital and
$1,307,320 in O&M), which correspond to $75 per 1,000 gallons of groundwater
extracted and $140 per pound of contaminant removed." -
FRTR)
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| Combined
Sewage Overflow(CSO -"in 1993 the number of
active CSO systems were down to three cities. The three cities cited were
Portland, Astoria, and Corvallis. In order to comply with the DEQ’s CSO
strategy, Portland must correct its CSO problem by the 2011. Corvallis must have
its overflow problem corrected by the year 2001" - LEGISLATURE'S
JOINT INTERIM COMMITTEE ON WATER, AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES) |
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| King's
Blvd. One Hour Dry Cleaning ("Five
shallow groundwater samples were collected from five boreholes around the site
in January 2000 as part of a Phase II ESA. Perchloroethene (PCE) was detected in
all five samples. Trichloroethene (TCE) and cis-1,2- dichloroethene were
detected in four of the five samples." - DEQ) |
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| South Corvallis
("We found solvents in wells on Debord, Mayberry,
Lilly, Atwood, Bridgeway, Chester, and Vera, but found no solvents in wells on
Thompson, Alexander, Crystal Lake, and Edging. The main solvent we found was
trichloroethene (TCE). Detected TCE concentrations ranged from 6.6 to 0.4
micrograms per liter"-DEQ) |
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| Northwest Ninth Street at
Spruce Avenue "The
soil was found to contain two suspected carcinogens. One is a wood preservative
used to treat power line poles, railroad ties and other wood fixtures called
pentachlorophenol, or PCP. The other is PCB, or polychlorinated biphenyl, a
chemical commonly found in electrical equipment." - GazetteTimes 8/82001 |
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| Superfund Sites:
CORVALLIS BRAND S CORP BOX L CORVALLIS DR
ORD980723019
CORVALLIS CAMP ADAIR T10S R4W R5W WM 8M N
OF CITY OR0001097161
CORVALLIS COFFIN BUTTE REGIONAL LDFL OFF
HWY 99 W 10 MI N CORVALLIS ORD990751950
CORVALLIS EVANITE BATTERY SEPARATOR PLANT
1120 SE CRYSTAL LK DR ORD049427271
CORVALLIS HEWLETT-PACKARD CORVALLIS DIV
1020 NE CIRCLE BLVD ORD081182180
CORVALLIS ROCHE RD DEMOLITION SITE SE ROCHE
RD ORD980980619
CORVALLIS UNITED CHROME PRODUCTS, INC 2000
AIRPORT RD ORD009043001
CORVALLIS USEPA CORVALLIS NAT ENV LAB 200
SW 35TH ST OR8680019991
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Willamette
River "a large variety of organic pesticides are present in the largest
streams in the basin, and that some of those pesticides are present at
concentrations that approach criteria for the protection of human or ecological
health"(USGS)
"A recent study detected Atrazine, an herbicide linked to breast
cancer, in 99% of all samples taken from the Willamette River Basin"(OSPIRG)
"4.5 million pounds of pesticides are used each year in the
Willamette basin" Tigard, Wilsonville,
Tualatin, Sherwood and Tualatin Valley Water District Activists
"a recent U.S. Geological Survey found 48 different pesticides in
water samples from 60 sites in Oregon's Willamette River Basin"Oregon
Pesticide Education Network
Report Pollution of the River to
Willamette
Riverkeepers |