Perilous paint and the fight for the Ringwood mines in New Jersey (2008-2021) by Kyle McLennanSite Description: In the late 1960s and early 70s the Ringwood mines were used to get rid of paint sludge, and other waste, from the Ford assembly plant in Mahwah. The EPA...
Segregation over Safety
Segregation Over Safety:Suburbanization of Staten Island Via Fresh Kills Landfill (1948-2021) by J. LopezSite Description: Staten Island, or in more legal terms Richmond County, used to house the largest landfill in the world, opened in 1948. Fresh Kills Landfill was...
From Bleak Landfills
Overpeck County Park: From Bleak Landfills to Green Hills (1957-2021) by Aaron LeuSite Description: The story begins around the 1950s in Overpeck Creek, located in Bergen County, NJ. An area that was once a diverse wetland ecosystem became a miserable dumpsite filled...
Lead and Arsenic Poisoning
Lead and Arsenic Poisoning by U.S. Smelter and Lead Refinery in East Chicago, Indiana over the last Century by N. HomSite Description: East Chicago is in the northwest corner of Indiana, near the border between Indiana and Illinois and on the coastline of Lake...
Proposed Sewer Plant
Proposed Sewer Plant near Musconetcong River could have negative environmental impacts and locals are demanding alternatives. by J. HaugSite Description: The sewer plant is only part of a proposed housing development project on Valley Road in Hampton Borough, NJ. The...
You Gotta Fight
You Gotta Fight, For Your Right, For Clean Water:How the Contaminated Passaic River in Newark, New Jersey Has Caused Wildlife and Low-Income Minorities to Fight for Clean Water and a Healthy Lifestyle by Jacob RappaportSite Description: My project is focusing on the...
Clean Our Water
“Clean Our Water, Wash Out Wilda”: Contaminated Tap Water, 2019 Perth Amboy Grassroots Activism, and the Lack of Governmental Response” by Victoria NguyenSite Description: My site is the city of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. It is rather general because it is not clear...
In Dirty Water
In Dirty Water: How Political Power and Gentrification Resulted in the Unequal Drinking Water in Camden’s Neighborhoods, 1970 – 2000 by Alex ChangSite Description: The site I chose, Camden NJ, is located in South Jersey and it borders Philadelphia Pennsylvania...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: How the Public Awareness of Contamination Affected Cleanup Efforts in the Pohatcong Valley Groundwater Superfund Site from 1978 to 2020 by Matthew TrochimSite Description: The Pohatcong Valley is a geographic term rather than a political...
Brumadinho Dam Disaster
The Brumadinho Dam Disaster:Rape and Pillaging of the Rainforest and Gross Negligence Against Latinos by a Multinational Corporation by Johnny Alexander Tablada-RodríguezSite Description: On 25 January 2019, a dam holding 9.7 million cubic meters of mining sludge...