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    A reCYCling business had stockpiled 50,000 barrels that at one lime had contained everything from molasses and lIour to daogerous chemicals. The barrels had long since dribbled out onto the bare dirt, and Residues left in the barrels were corroded. The health department was contacted, and the site was removed.

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    A reCYCling business had stockpiled 50,000 barrels that at one lime had contained everything from molasses and lIour to daogerous chemicals. The barrels had long since dribbled out onto the bare dirt, and Residues left in the barrels were corroded. The health department was contacted, and the site was removed.

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    Life Beyond The Classroom

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    A reCYCling business had stockpiled 50,000 barrels that at one lime had contained everything from molasses and lIour to daogerous chemicals. The barrels had long since dribbled out onto the bare dirt, and Residues left in the barrels were corroded. The health department was contacted, and the site was removed.

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    ‘Thexid’sGuldeto LIFE BEYOND THE CLASSROOM social Action Jackson Elementary Sait Lake Git, Utah, Back dots representing possible hazardous wast sles wee sprinkled across the large ‘wall map of Salt Lake Gty tke flecks of peppor. {had hang the eight-foot map an the Blackboard so my stu dents could see easly. Thy dlscovered that one of tho sites was foate uel three blocks from ou schoo. “That old barel yard?” 11-year old Maxine asked, shackadat ow lose tite was ous. “Kids climb al ver thse sist" 1 bet thereat atleast a thousand barrels in one pil" added Civis. He grabbed a marking pen and ci ed he spot. We were studying the importance of groundwater, the underground quid cies puna up or peopito crak. ‘Wea earned that hazardous waste can leak down to contaminate the water 1 ad planned the ul for my academielly {alenled shah graders al Jackson Ele- ‘mentary, whore each special asses fourth through nth grader. | had ne idea | was unleashing a tiger. ‘Walt nll you Rear whal these Neds di, ‘As Iturned out Chis had underestimated: The ste ‘ets 0,000 ares that a one Ue hed contained every ‘hing from mosses andor to dangerous chemicals. ‘Now alleraregycing business had stocked hem for more than AO years, many wor rsteé and corroded. Residues Ito tbo bartels had tong since dibled out ‘onto the tae dt. “Who could we 2sk to find ot whether our water cupply has bean contamiated?” | asked te Kits. Tho hea depariment,” Heather suggested. She always grabbed the attention of the othr kis, despite ‘erty size ad sot vie, ‘As he sich grades erusiasm grew, te fourth and ttm graders mad onthe bandwagon. We now had 94 ‘us tacklng the problem. This was as exiting to them _asuavavelinganystry. ice was er elghborhood. Te peliinary pone cals to alert ficial that students would bo ling to ask wha hey might d 9 help. “Thor's nothing eileen can do,” one heakh

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