ESSEX COUNTY
NEW YORK
KORA FORTUN
GEOGRAPHY
•Adirondack Park•Lake Champlain•Harsh winters
HISTORY
•Mohawks and Abenakis
• Established 1799• Elizabethtown
LAKE CHAMPLAIN WATERSHED
Rivers with Poor
Lakes with Poor
6% 83%Rivers with Good
Lakes with Good
14% 9.5%
SUPERFUND SITE
•Plattsburgh Air Base (55-91)
• Soil contamination• Tanks removed• Soil transplants
ENERGY
Type of Energy Percent of Consumption
Renewable 4.3%Nuclear 28.8%Oil 0.8%Gas 22.2%Hydroelectric 28.2%Coal 15.3%
ENERGY
ENVIROTHON
• High School Team Competition
• Scored on five environmental topics
CLIMATE SMART
COMMUNITIES
• Essex County• Schroon• Lewis
LEAD
• 1978 legislation• Paints
• Old pipes•0.06% of children under
2• Clinics offer testing
• Department of Health
SOIL
• Bouldery• Slopes
• Clay Loam• Flooding and Fall Plowing• SWCD projects and Field
Days
AIR• 4 unhealthy days
for asthmatics• Electricity: 66,342
tons• Stationary Combustion:
82,428• Transportation:
330,469•Midwestern States’
factories•Winds move smog
air pollution over Northeast
CRUDE OIL TRAINS
•Bakken Shale Oil (North Dakota)
• Highly flammable• Through Canada to the
Port of Albany•DEC permitted increase from 450 million oil, gas
and ethanol to 1.8 billion of crude oil alone• Industry has not provided Dep. Of
Transportation with adequate information
QUESTION TIME