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Find The Toxic Sites Near You With This Interactive Map Of NYC
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Lauren Evans
Published Nov 18, 2013
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The city's Superfund sites may get all the attention, but it turns out there are hundreds of other toxic locations sprinkled around the city—could there be one near your residence? Almost definitely!
The obsessive cartographers over at Property Shark have mapped out the sites of various environmental maladies, which range from leaking tanks and spills to brownfield sites to air discharge facilities. Is your apartment snuggled between a Solid Waste Facility and a Superfund Qualifying Site, like mine is? Likely! Is your child's preschool adjacent to Major Oil Storage Facility? Without question! Is a Hazardous Substance Study being conducted at the same address as your favorite greengrocer? Indubitably! Click here to discover the toxins, fumes and heavy metals sharing your property, preferably while listening to this:
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