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This is a list of Superfund sites in Virginia designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The United States Environmental Protection Agency recommends action for any house with a concentration higher than 148 Bq/m 3 (given as 4 pCi/L). Nearly one in 15 homes in the U.S. has a high level of indoor radon according to their statistics. The U.S. Surgeon General and EPA recommend all homes be tested for radon.
According to a 2003 report EPA's Assessment of Risks from Radon in Homes from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, epidemiological evidence shows a clear link between lung cancer and high concentrations of radon, with 21,000 radon-induced U.S. lung cancer deaths per year—second only to cigarette smoking. [3]
From 1975 up until 1984, small studies in Sweden, Austria, the United States and Norway aimed to measure radon indoors and in metropolitan areas. [66] Typical log-normal radon distribution in dwellings Predicted fraction of U.S. homes having concentrations of radon exceeding the EPA's recommended action level of 4 pCi/L
A city and county that share a name may be completely unrelated in geography. For example, Richmond County is nowhere near the City of Richmond, and Franklin County is even farther from the City of Franklin. More Virginia counties are named for women than in any other state. [4] Virginia's postal abbreviation is VA and its FIPS state code is 51.
In the United States, the EPA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are the principal federal agencies working with the CEC to define and map ecoregions. Ecoregions may be identified by similarities in geology , physiography , vegetation , climate , soils , land use , wildlife distributions, and hydrology .
United States: State: Virginia: County: Carroll County: Physical characteristics; Source: East Fork Crooked Creek divide • location: about 1 mile northeast of Sugarloaf Overlook • coordinates: 1] • elevation: 2,930 ft (890 m) [2] Mouth
File:Blank_US_Map.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated, GFDL 2009-11-05T19:44:02Z NuclearVacuum 959x593 (91518 Bytes) minor fix from previous upload 2009-11-05T19:39:42Z NuclearVacuum 959x593 (88399 Bytes) Fixed up the borders so they are connected with each state and loosing that gap between them.