Project Type

Poster

Publication Date

4-15-2022

Department or Program

Earth and Environmental Science

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Faculty Mentor #1

Wessel, Barret

Abstract

The primary purpose of our field research was comparing chemical analysis of groundwater samples from the present day with the laboratory analysis taken after underground storage tanks (USTs) leaked pollutants (TPHs, VOCs, PERCs) into the groundwater located under the University of Mary Washington campus, a discovery made in 1993. We read through three WOTUS Supreme Court cases (SWANCC vs. the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rapanos vs. the United States, Maui vs. the Hawaii Wildlife Fund) to appraise how the Clean Water Act has been interpreted judicially in the past, as well as to speculate how the pollution from 1993 might have been handled legally.

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