The Problem With ... Shallow Disposal Systems (Subtitles)
Channel: PublicResourceOrg
Date: 22/01/2008

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

The Problem With ... Shallow Disposal Systems
(Also available with Closed Captions.)
EPA 816-C-04-004

This DVD looks at the real life challenges and successes experienced by three different communities faced with polluted drinking water supplies and a totally unexpected source of contamination.

Case Studies: Missoula, MT; Espanola, NM; Great Falls, VA

EPA's Underground Injection Control Program is responsible for ensuring that injection wells do not endanger underground sources of drinking water, public health and the environment. The reason for producing this DVD is to alert local leaders to a potential source of pollution which they often overlook--shallow disposal systems. It only takes one such system to pollute an entire drinking water supply and threaten the economic health of a community. The DVD shows hot to identify and solve the problem.