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...with hazardous waste, you become acutely aware of every sneeze, every rash. You wonder about being well 20 years from now." Chatting with fire fighters near a blazing Elizabeth, N.J., dump site at 3 a.m., Stoler glanced down to see his nylon sneakers "being eaten by chemicals in the soil. They were literally dissolving off my feet...
...than the steady rise in the number of wells found to be contaminated by chemicals. Fully 50% of all Americans depend on ground rather than surface water for their drinking supply. Water that may have fallen to earth as long as a century ago has percolated slowly down through soil and porous rock to collect in vast underground aquifers that were virtually void of chemical and bacteriological impurities. Now substances, mostly petrochemicals thought to have been harmlessly disposed of years ago, are beginning to show up even in the deeper U.S. wells. This contamination will grow as those forgotten chemicals...
Vance is even more concerned about the future. He fears that the ground water beneath the sandy soil has been polluted, and this will show up later in wells. "It's a perfect setup," he says. "We think what they did with some of the chemicals was just pour 'em out on the ground. Glub, glub, glub." When state and local officials failed to get results, the federal EPA declared a water emergency and took over the cleanup chore. So far, it has spent nearly $1 million and estimates that complete removal of all hazardous wastes...
Mitscher said new antibiotics must be found because existing ones lose their effectiveness when used over a long period. Antibiotics now are prepared from soil microorganisms...
...refrigerating the seeds briefly before exposing them again to warmth and light. The seedlings will be nurtured until they produce seeds of their own, in the hope that the progeny will offer clues about the mutating effects of 100 years' exposure to the natural radiation in the soil. Enough bottles remain buried to carry on Beal's experiment until 2040. More time might help; by some accounts, seeds from the tombs of the pharaohs have sprouted thousands of years after they were buried...