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Using Google Earth, you can browse through your neighborhood to see environmental sites, or learn about Global Warming. These layers offer an alternate viewing
approach to Terradex's environmental databases.
Colored icons illuminate the status of the site – red for work in progress, yellow typically for sites with long-term controls inplace, and green for sites where cleanup has been achieved -- though residual contamination may exist. If a user “mouses over” the site icon, they learn the name, if they click on the site icon, basic information is displayed. Within the site description, they may choose to link on the regulatory link(s). A user would see that some sites have federal and/or multiple state agency listings. A user doesn’t have to worry about finding which website to visit, the links are embedded. Try browsing seamlessly from one state to another, no longer burdened with wondering which agency to visit – this is done in the background by Terradex. As a user zooms out in Google Earth, federal facilities show, as they zoom in state sites show with an emphasis on site priority. The site invites users to help improve the data – quite often geocoding is poor on sites, and a local user may know where the site is. Our intent is to
offer a new approach to discovering environmental sites, an approach dependent upon
progress agencies have made to display information on their website.
This is still a Beta, and not all data collection is complete. Our introductory
coverage includes federal Superfund and RCRA, California, Oregon, Washington and
New Jersey.
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To discover this information through Google Earth. First, follow the link to install the Version 4 Beta of Google Earth. You must update Google Earth. Then click the link to download the environmental sites network link. Make sure the layer
is checked. Remember that zooming in will show more sites. Clicking on a site will
show the link.
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1) Install Google Earth |
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2) Download Environmental Sites Layer |
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