CHEMICAL SPILLS

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Acutely toxic contaminants

such as cyanide and chlorine released

from hazardous materials spills, pose an immediate threat to public health.

For example, a chemical accident in

which chlorine gas or cyanide gas is released would likely result in widespread deaths as the plume, or toxic cloud, moved through a populated area

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chronic, or long term toxicity

exposure to carcinogens that may result

in cancer twenty to thirty years after the time of the spill

A toxic cloud containing dioxins, which

are very potent cancer-causing chemicals, was released into the atmosphere and spread across the nearby densely populated city of Seveso. The researchers found that the women who developed breast cancer had a tenfold increase of the toxic chemical in 5/1/12 their blood

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A train derailment near Milligan, 5/1/12 Florida. The train carried chemicals,

1984: Hundreds die in Bhopal chemical accident

Hundreds of people have died from

the effects of toxic gases which leaked from a chemical factory near the central Indian city of Bhopal.
More than 20,000 people have required

hospital treatment for symptoms including swollen eyes, frothing at the mouth and breathing difficulties.
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1978: Amoco Cadis Oil Spill.

TheAmoco Cadizwas a VLCC

(Very Large Crude Carrier), owned by Amoco, that split in two after running a ground on Portsall Rocks, three miles (5km) off the coast of Brittany (France), on March 16, 1978, resulting at that time in the largest oil spill ever, currently the fifth-largest in history
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Hungarian chemical sludge spill reaches Danube

Toxic red sludge from a spill at an

industrial plant in Hungary has reached the River Danube, one river were now greatly reduced, but were being monitored. tragedy". There are fears the mud, which burst out of a reservoir on Monday, could poison the Danube.

They said alkaline levels that killed all fish in

PM Viktor Orban called the spill an "ecological

Countries downstream from Hungary,

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Mothers didn't know their children had died, children didn't know their mothers had died and men didn't know their whole families had dieD

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Oil Spill off coast of Guimaras Island, On August 11, 2006, a bunker fuel tanker, Philippines

carrying over two million litres of fuel sank in the southern Philippines and has leaked over 200,000 litres of fuel onto the coast of Guimaras Island. tanker is over 600 metres below sea level and continues to leak fuel and is still spreading in other islands; approximately 4,000 families have been affected and/or displaced by the spill. Local efforts have proven difficult to cap the leak in the tanker and there has been no successful effort to remove the5/1/12 tanker from

According to reports from the Philippines, the

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TRIVIA: a toxic chemical accident was reported nineteen times a day in the United States, or nearly once every
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TRIVIA:
In 1988 six firemen were

killed minutes after arriving at the scene of two burning pick-up trucks in Missouri, when more than 30,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate stored in a nearby trailer 5/1/12 exploded.

How Are Chemical Accidents Handled?

Teams of workers evaluate the

concentrations of the chemicals, where and how people might be exposed, and potential toxic effects on the exposed people twenty-four-hour call;

emergency response teams are on if a spill occurs, they use source data

(such as the hazmat placards on trucks and tanker cars), databases of chemical properties, and chemical movement models to rapidly predict the movement 5/1/12 of contaminants and the toxicity of the

If rapid spill cleanup is necessary, the

emergency response team designs and implements cleanup measures to protect exposed populations and ecosystems from toxic responses

Small spills on land are cleaned up by

simply excavating the contaminated soil and moving it to a secure landfill.

Oil spills on water are contained using

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WhatNEVERto do in the Event of a

Mercury Spill

Neverwalk around an area that is

contaminated with mercury. Mercury is easily spread and the spill area may not be easily identified. Contaminated clothing can also spread mercury around.
Neveruse an ordinary vacuum cleaner to

clean up mercury. The vacuum will put mercury vapor into the air and increase exposure. The vacuum cleaner will be contaminated and will have to be disposed of as hazardous waste.
Neveruse a broom to clean up mercury. It
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By: Pocais, Raisa Liwaden, Genevieve Soriano, Katrina Villanueva, Kristine 5/1/12