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earthDr!
"the
environmental ombudsman"
Environmental Justice for All
earthDRx.org - prescriptions (Rx) for
a cleaner environment
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PROTECTING YOUR HOME ENVIRONMENT FROM THE
ENTRY OF SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE CONTAMINATION
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- This
web site is targeted to explaining the mechanisms for migration of contaminants
such as benzene, toluene, xylene, MTBE, TCE, arsenic, chromate, mercury, lead,
dioxin, PCBs, fuel oil, gasoline or other toxic chemicals that
enter your home; and, methods to prevent entry of contaminants.
- Don't
assume that groundwater contamination is only a threat to the drinking
water supplied from your well. Groundwater contamination can also cause
vapor or dust problems in your home. Therefore, it is especially important
to protect against ground-water contamination in a densely populated
area.
- A
prime example of ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE: writing off groundwater contamination
in a densely populated area because it is not an aquifer-use area without
first ensuring that there is not a vapor or dust exposure route into living areas.
- Sources
of subsurface contamination entering a home come either through the
basement wall/crawl space/slab or through well water supplying the home.
- This
web site is not targeted to exploring cause and effect relationships
pertaining to possible health effects from exposure to contaminants
entering your home and the development of such maladies as cancer, autism,
diabetes, or lupus. However, this web site will help you to identify
potential exposure pathways to you and your family from which you may
be able to build a cause and effect relationship.
- Our
home environment has become one grand experiment that daily introduces
us to many contaminants with which we have limited or zero knowledge
of either short or long term health effects.
- This
web site is intended to provide you with a structured educational program
and also, a topics page where you can seek answers to all pertinent
questions concerning curtailing exposure pathways into your home from
contamination in the subsurface environment and secondarily from contaminated
surface soils.
- My
hope is to provide you with a logical approach to frame the proper questions,
in order, to get the correct answers from regulatory agencies and subsurface
professionals to protect your home environs from entry of contamination.
- The
structured educational program follows a dual track or sometimes a multi-track
approach. Actual examples of environmental exposures and remedies may
need to be supplemented by another track that provides a detailed explanation
of the physical or chemical mechanisms controlling the exposure pathways
illustrated by the examples.
- On
this website, there are numerous presentations of, as yet, unpublished
subsurface phenomena. These may be used as research starting points.
TREATISE
- VAPOR GENESIS IN STRUCTURES
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