ENVS 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Common Starling, Nonpoint Source Pollution, Electronic Waste

• School: SJSU
• Department: Environmental Studies, Department of
• Course: ENVS 010
• Professor: Laizzer

Document Summary

An invasive species is a species that is not native to a specific location. An estimated 200 million now in u. s. Usually travel in huge flocks; considered a pest. Any substance that has long-term effects on either human health or the environment. There is toxic waste buried under the ground and these people (school board) come and want to build a school and neighborhood on top of this area even though they were told of the toxic waste in the area. The school board did not tell the people moving into the neighborhood about the hazardous waste that was there. The people attending the school and living in that neighborhood had health problems. Identifies sites, cleans up contaminated areas, can pursue legal action against responsible parties. Santa clara county: 23 sites as of nov. 2016. Chemical point source: comes from a stationary location, such as a factory. Chemical non-point source: comes from multiple or diffuse locations, such as agricultural runoff.