Geographic Information Systems

What is done

larm — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:05:07 +0000

The area of the project that I worked on the most is the meta data for the top eight polluters from the planet hazard data. What I did was create an excel spread sheet for each of the companies that included its location and contact information. Then I divided the information into either hazardous or non hazardous pollutants based on a scorecard rating between 1-12 and if it was categorized hazardous if it made it on the top 10% hazardous pollutants. Then I made two graphs for each location that showed the pollutant and scorecard rating for the most hazardous or non hazardous. The other task I am working still is taking the EPA data and doing the same thing.

Top Polluters

larm — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:02:57 +0000

Top Ten Polluters in Delaware County, Ohio

1 Ppg Industries – Delaware

annual emissions:	391,401.40
pollutants: 50	sources: 64

2 Delo Screw Prods.

annual emissions:	30,998.00
pollutants: 1	sources: 1

3 City Of Delaware Landfill

annual emissions:	3,726.20
pollutants: 28	sources: 28

4 General Casting Co. Liberty Rd Div.

annual emissions:	2,691.00
pollutants: 2	sources: 4

5 American Showa Inc.

annual emissions:	255.00
pollutants: 2	sources: 2

6 Henkel Surface Techs.

annual emissions:	20.00
pollutants: 1	sources: 2

7 Rockwell Automation

annual emissions:	4.70
pollutants: 1	sources: 2

8 Micro Inds. Corp.

annual emissions:	0.07
pollutants: 1	sources: 1

Our back ground information came from the EPA’s The Facility Registry System (FRS) is a centrally managed database that identifies facilities, sites or places subject to environmental regulations or of environmental interest. FRS creates high-quality, accurate, and authoritative facility identification records through rigorous verification and management procedures that incorporate information from program national systems, state master facility records, data collected from EPA’s Central Data Exchange registrations and data management personnel. The FRS provides Internet access to a single integrated source of comprehensive (air, water, and waste) environmental information about facilities, sites or places.

The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available EPA database that contains information on toxic chemical releases and waste management activities reported annually by certain industries as well as federal facilities. For more information on TRI, EPCRA’s primary purpose is to inform communities and citizens of chemical hazards in their areas. Sections 311 and 312 of EPCRA require businesses to report the locations and quantities of chemicals stored on-site to state and local governments in order to help communities prepare to respond to chemical spills and similar emergencies. EPCRA Section 313 requires EPA and the States to annually collect data on releases and transfers of certain toxic chemicals from industrial facilities, and make the data available to the public in the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). In 1990 Congress passed the Pollution Prevention Act which required that additional data on waste management and source reduction activities be reported under TRI. The goal of TRI is to empower citizens, through information, to hold companies and local governments accountable in terms of how toxic chemicals are managed.

Score Card

Kim

Research

larm — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:31:27 +0000

also in the group Kim and Madeline

i looked around the web and i got a few ideas

United Nations Environment Programme

a source of ideas that we could look at to create useful maps

Global Environment Outlook

a source of ideas that we could look at to create useful maps

Toxic Release Inventory Maps in ESRI

some shape maps from the TRI that that could be apart of our maps

Environmental GIS Maps of the World

looks like a good source for maps that may be able to aid us in our project
US Geodata

many potential data source ideas and information that can help us create our own maps

PlanetHazard

PlanetHazard uses information from the EPA to map Top Ten Polluters, All Polluters,

List Pollutants

17-20

larm — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:40:37 +0000

Wow im done with the tutorial again tons of fun working with indian tiger conservation !

Delaware Data

larm — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:13:09 +0000

Annexations- help in locating and confirming boundaries Census-Block
Census-Block Group/ Census Tract -smaller areas to conduct census

Delaware_Address_Pts- used as a standard reference
Delaware_Buildings_ /Delaware_Buildings_2-the location of buildings commercial ect.. in county

Delaware_Cemeteries- the areas were cemerteries own land

Delaware_Farmlots-illustrates the boundaries of farm lots within the county

Delaware_GolfCourse- the location of gulfing activities

Delaware_Municipalities-identifying boundaries within county
Delaware_Parcels- assigning property appraisals

Delaware_Parks- idnetifies the location of all the parks in the county

Delaware_PostOffice- the sitte of all the postoffieces

Delaware_Schools- the location of the schools within the township
Delaware_Subdivisions-areas of were condos and other developmental housing located

Floodplains- divided into the 100 and 500 flood plains
Historical-Archeological- there was no metadata ?
Historical-Delaware- there was no metadata ?
Historical-National-there was no metadata ?

Hydro-detail- the major water ways within the county
Master-point- has all the address mapping and matching street address and get lattitude and longatitude

Natural Heritage ODNR- sites of historic value designation natural sites

OrthophotoAp2006- had trouble loading it it kept crashing when it loaded but i assume its the areal photos of the county
Precincts-a division used for voting

Public Land Survey System- areas that the township or the county own

Rail Road- lines running through Delaware
School-type of boundary designed by the township
Soils- individual boundary of the soil types
Topography- the elevation breakdown of the county

Townships_historical- the orginial 18 townships
Traffic-MORPSE- areas of traffic and roads

Watersheds-ODNR- water drainage basen

Wetlands-areas of saturated water

Woodland-ODNR-areas covered by tree canopy

Zip2004- a division of the county that is current

Zoning- a division within the county

some of these shape files are going to be very useful for the applying it to green spaces because some of the files fall under green spaces the wetlands, woodlands, watersheds, parks and other files will help seeingthedistrubution of green space at different levels within the county to see if there are any injustices occurring and others will have no application to my specific part of the project

14-16

larm — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:43:45 +0000

I ran across a problem in 16c when trying to add a field but it was disabled so I could not continue with the exercise and in 15b it took a few tries to get the vector triangle into a plot but was completed other than that again tons of fun

10-13

larm — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:53:28 +0000

again some good times had a few difficulties but it was all sorted out i just miss understood the command all is ok but i did have trouble with trying to create a graph from the wizard but it didn’t turn out so i just kept on going

Tutorial 8-9

larm — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:23:43 +0000

wow done Ii love housing data and Louisiana!

Tour of Northwest Delaware

larm — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:14:15 +0000

we have some amazing pictures of Northwest Delaware by Kim

our tour had a focus on a few green spaces like BLue Lime Stone Park, Delaware State Park and Smith Park and some potential environmental injustice like the quare and the water treatment place

all in all it was a neat expterience and had some fun

3-7

larm — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:18:15 +0000

tones of fun finished 3-7 tutorials it was fun to have a focus on Africa and the southern gulf of Mexico countries !