CE 485: Hazardous and Solid
Waste Management
Spring 2003
Instructors:
Professor
Susan J. Masten
A132 Engineering Research
353-8539
masten@msu.edu
Professor
Thomas C. Voice
A125 Engineering Research
355-8240
voice@msu.edu
Class Time: M W F, 8:00 – 8:50, 2243 Engineering Building
Office Hours: M W F, 9:00 – 10:00, 3580 Engineering Building
Texts: Hazardous Waste Management, 2nd Edition, MD LaGrega, PL Buckingham and JC Evans, McGraw-Hill, 2001.
- Some Useful Environmental Links
Health and Safety Plans
o Hanford, Washington – Geophysical Logging project
o Emergency Response Health and Safety Plan Worksheet
o Groundwater Remediation Field Laboratory, Dover, DE
o Hanford Tank Farms Vadose Zone Monitoring Project
o NASA Site Specific Health and Safety Plan
A Resource for the
Characterization and Remediation of MGP Sites
Radiactive Waste Management:
General Environmental
Regulations:
Information on various
chemicals:
- Spectrum: Information about various chemicals (search engine for site)
- Risk assessments for several pesticides
- Information on various diseases, also some information on a number of environmental pollutants
- Extoxnet: Information on a variety of pesticides
- Compendium of Pesticide Common Names
- Information on herbicides and their use
- General information on priority pollutants in drinking water
Research and Regulatory Agencies
- The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
- The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) , published by the U.S. EPA, is a valuable source of information regarding toxic chemicals that are being used, manufactured, treated, transported, or released into the environment.
- The mission of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), as an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is to prevent exposure and adverse human health effects and diminished quality of life associated with exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites, unplanned releases, and other sources of pollution present in the environment.
- EPA Office of Pesticide Programs
Commercial Sites
Information Ventures, Inc. provides
scientific information services to professionals in industry, government
agencies, academic, and medical institutions. Covers the major health challenges,
including electric and magnetic fields (EMF), herbicides and pesticides,
chemicals and other hazards in the workplace, pharmaceuticals, and cancer.
Factsheets
The ATSDR ToxFAQsTM
is a series of summaries about hazardous substances developed by the ATSDR
Division of Toxicology.
Regulated
contaminants in drinking water.
Databases
- This data base compiles most of the pesticide residue data measured in surface water, surface microlayer, groundwater, sediment, and biota, of Chesapeake Bay.
- The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) , prepared and maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), is an electronic data base containing information on human health effects that may result from exposure to various chemicals in the environment.
- Toxnet: A cluster of databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, and related areas
- Disinfection
Byproducts : Chemical Information and Molecular Modeling, developed
by Marcus Horne and
Yuefeng Xie, Penn State University - Harrisburg - Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
- Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
- Knovel Engineering & Scientific Online References Database : Knovel is an online database powered by 350+ interactive engineering and scientific handbooks and databases. The collection includes popular titles like: - CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physic, Perry's Chemical Engineer's Handbook, Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, Dictionary of Substances and Their Effects, Sittig's Handbook of Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals and 350+ others.
