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NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION – IT’S ALL AROUND US. REPORT.
A. Visit three agricultural or urban / construction sites and answer each of the following questions for each site in a short report.
1. What diffuse pollutants did you observe? List as many as you can. Are there possibly other diffuse pollutants that you cannot see? If so, list them.
2. What is the probable cause/source of each pollutant you observed or suspect is present?
I decided to analyze agricultural and urban sites in Russia,asmy home country.
This isFirst, I visited a wheat field. I think here we can observe diffuse pollutantslikesuch as:
- Insecticides (DDT may be used, the soil has alreadyhasabsorbeda lots ofmany toxic chemicals such as Aluminium, arsenic, chlorine etc.). Birds, rodents and other wildlife could be poisoned. To reduce this pollution,they could usebiological insecticides could be used. (Wikipedia, Insecticide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
- Fertilizers (nitrates accumulation in groundwater, soil acidification, heavy metal (cadmium, uranium) accumulation). To avoid or minimize this effect wemaycould use eco-friendly fertilizers.
- herbicides
This is one of the busiest streets- oil, grease drops and tire (tyre in BrE)crumbdust from grain harvester combines (combine harvesters) and tractors.
ofin Kazan.What pollutants I can observe:I observed the following pollutants:
- Automobile oil, grease, gas, tirecrumbsdust on the asphalt.
- Toxic car emissions: Carbon dioxide, monoxide, lead (plumbum), nitrogen oxides, unburned fuel, sulfur dioxide, benzene, toluene, xylene, 1,3-butadiene, acetaldehyde, and formaldehyde.
- Lawn fertilizersfor lawn.
- After rain, all this matter is washedoffaway and settles in the creek.
- Air conditioner gas (Air conditioner Freon rises into the sky and destroys the ozone layer).
This isI then visited a lake called “Deep Lake”, located not far from downtownofKazan.
3. Briefly discuss, based on your on-site observations, what is "being done" or "should be done" to minimize the problems you observed.
B. Many of you are in programs or are doing research related to diffuse pollution. Please describe in a paragraph why diffuse pollution control is related to work you are currently doing or plan to do after you graduate.
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