ESSEX COUNTY

NEW YORK

KORA FORTUN

GEOGRAPHY

•Adirondack Park•Lake Champlain•Harsh winters

HISTORY

•Mohawks and Abenakis

• Established 1799• Elizabethtown

LAKE CHAMPLAIN WATERSHED

Rivers with Poor

Lakes with Poor

6% 83%Rivers with Good

Lakes with Good

14% 9.5%

SUPERFUND SITE

•Plattsburgh Air Base (55-91)

• Soil contamination• Tanks removed• Soil transplants

ENERGY

Type of Energy Percent of Consumption

Renewable 4.3%Nuclear 28.8%Oil 0.8%Gas 22.2%Hydroelectric 28.2%Coal 15.3%

ENERGY

ENVIROTHON

• High School Team Competition

• Scored on five environmental topics

CLIMATE SMART

COMMUNITIES

• Essex County• Schroon• Lewis

LEAD

• 1978 legislation• Paints

• Old pipes•0.06% of children under

2• Clinics offer testing

• Department of Health

SOIL

• Bouldery• Slopes

• Clay Loam• Flooding and Fall Plowing• SWCD projects and Field

Days

AIR• 4 unhealthy days

for asthmatics• Electricity: 66,342

tons• Stationary Combustion:

82,428• Transportation:

330,469•Midwestern States’

factories•Winds move smog

air pollution over Northeast

CRUDE OIL TRAINS

•Bakken Shale Oil (North Dakota)

• Highly flammable• Through Canada to the

Port of Albany•DEC permitted increase from 450 million oil, gas

and ethanol to 1.8 billion of crude oil alone• Industry has not provided Dep. Of

Transportation with adequate information

QUESTION TIME