Below are some great interactive sites, provided by different government agencies- just fascinating to use and play with. You will be able to see where toxins have been reported to the government- some locations are still being monitored.
This is an amazing mapping tool, called TOXMAP from the National Library of Medicine- you just put in your zip code and see history of cleanups in your area
MY ENVIRONMENT- EPA aggregation of its different reports, with search by location, which includes cancer health risk by county- click image to do your own search of current toxic influences:
If you know what kind of toxic thing was near your home- then you can see aggregation of info-TOX TOWN highlights over sixty kinds of toxic influences you might find in a Town, City, Port, Farm, the US Southwest or along the US Border Regions.
California interactive map- ENVIROSTAR-you can search by address and see what Clean Ups the State is doing or has done near that address
For GIS types and others interested in the technology to map by address where verifiable toxins are now influencing our current health, calculating risk factors for us and our descendents too. I hope to find help to create this kind of software that could be on a mobile device. Check out these listings-fascinating possibilities- please communicate with me if you know of a mapping software that can do this already! Or send on some more cool maps….
Create an editable layer to draw
features on the map
display descriptive text, images, and charts for map features in a
pop-up.
4. Save and share your map.
For GIS types and others interested in the technology to map by address where verifiable toxins are now influencing our current health, calculating risk factors for us and our descendents too. I hope to find help to create this kind of software that could be on a mobile device. Check out these listings-fascinating possibilities- please communicate with me if you know of a mapping software that can do this already! Or send on some more cool maps….
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This below tool map of California shows contaminated
places, ( that they hope will be redeveloped with renewable energy plants). You
have to download a Google map exe. There is a history bar that can show the
place back to 1938, look up your mothers and grandmothers addresses, see if
there were any contaminated locations near them...
http://www.epa.gov/region9/climatechange/renewcontlands/index.html
1.
Development Seed is a creative data
visualization and mapping team
based in Washington, DC. We help organizations use data to explain complex
issues and make better decisions. We work on projects with partners in
government, international development, and the private sector who are trying to
make things better, improve policy, and touch the lives of people around the
world.
4.
Listed are metadata documents in XML and HTML
("Classic Metadata") format for all data provided by the California
Environmental Health Tracking Program. This list is auto-generated from the metadata repository.
To search metadata documents, enter a phrase in the search box in the upper
right corner.
5.
CA Lead map- houses
6.
The California State Waterboard regulates
Leaking Underground Fuel Tank cleanup sites. Data is obtained from GeoTracker http://www.geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/.
A LUFT site is a undergoing cleanup due to an unauthorized release from an UST
system. An underground storage tank system (UST) is a tank and any underground
piping connected to the tank that has at least 10 percent of its combined
volume underground. UST regulations apply only to underground tanks and piping
storing either petroleum or certain hazardous substances.
7. Public Health Assessments & Health Consultations
City of Richmond toxic wastes --19
locations
8.
CDC Biomonitoring report 2012-
The Fourth National Report on Human Exposure
to Environmental Chemicals, Updated Tables, September 2012 provides new
data since the release of the Fourth Report, 2009. These data include updated
tables for 119 chemicals in the Fourth Report, 2009 and tables for 34
new chemicals. Review this publication for the most recent and complete
biomonitoring data.
The Updated Tables, September 2012,
present data from the 2005-2006, 2007-2008, and 2009-2010 survey periods and
data for a few chemicals from the 2003-2004 survey period. The Updated
Tables are cumulative and include data reported in earlier updates.
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Map platform- can customize from a base map- you
can add layers and data
It's easy to make your own map.
Just follow these steps:
1. Choose an area.
1. Choose an area.
Pan and zoom the map to an area or
search by its name or address.
2. Decide what to show.
2. Decide what to show.
Choose a 
Basemap then Add layers on top of it.
3. Add more to your map.
Basemap then Add layers on top of it.3. Add more to your map.
Create an editable layer to draw
features on the mapdisplay descriptive text, images, and charts for map features in a
pop-up.4. Save and share your map.
Give your map a name and
description then share it with other people.
10.
DATA-Report and map of lead emissions in US-
online data across US of Industrial Plants air pollution
11.
DATA-Very good reports and mapping in 3D of
Healthrankings in obesity, diabetes and smoking across the US by state
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This is a map of US Toxic sites and Resouces on
Toxipedia
There are an enormous number of resources relevant to
toxicology and environmental health in the United States. The following is
necessarily a highly selected list of some of the most noteworthy. Additional
resources are listed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Toxicology
Links, a product of its Toxicology and Environmental Health Information
Program (TEHIP)
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Mobile
app--Are you interested in learning what facilities are near your home, office,
school or another area? The myRight-To-Know app can help you.
Shows facilities and releases, but
needs health risks too:
For any location or address, myRTK geographically
displays nearby facilities that report to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)
Program, as well as facilities with EPA air, water or hazardous waste program
permits.
http://myrtk.epa.gov/info/map.jsp?point=37.740398,-122.485508
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EPA-enviromapper- pretty good aggregation of all
EPA data, can sort but hard to know what you should search for…
16.
EPA radiation calculator- software model of risk
factors
17.
EPA water
pollutants, new gov mapping, can filter raw data
18.
EPA report on facility non-compliance- data and
locations
19.
EPA-The goal of LDIP is to obtain
latitude/longitude coordinate information of documented origin for all of EPA's
regulated facilities and sites, operable units, and environmental monitoring
and observation locations.
20.
RSEI starts with TRI releases. For each exposure
pathway from each chemical release, the model generates an "Indicator
Element." This Indicator Element is a risk-related score that is a
unitless value proportional to the potential risk-related impact of the
release. This score is the product of the estimated dose of a chemical
multiplied by the chemical's assigned toxicity weight multiplied by the exposed
population. Indicator Elements are specific to each exposure pathway, chemical,
release medium, facility, and year. Indicator Elements are summed to provide
the outputs requested by the user.
21.
EPA report on 20th St, San Francisco,
CA, 2001-2009 violations
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Open
more detailed information in a new window (links leave ECHO): 1
Mi 3
Mi or 5
Mi.
This section provides demographic information regarding the community surrounding the facility. ECHO compliance data alone are not sufficient to determine whether violations at a particular facility had negative impacts on public health or the environment. Statistics are based upon the 2000 US Census data, and are accurate to the extent that the facility latitude and longitude listed below are correct. The latitude and longitude are obtained from the EPA Locational Reference Table(LRT) when available. |
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interesting articles with maps
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