groundwater pollution

Chronicles sixty years of industrial pollution that ravaged Toms River, New Jersey causing a large number of childhood cancers. Discusses the scientists, physicians, and citizens that fought for justice and the largest legal settlement in the history of toxic dumping.

Provides a comprehensive study of floods, discussing the relationship between surface water and groundwater systems, streams and river systems, effects of river modifications and urbanization on river dynamics, flood disasters, groundwater contamination, and geological subsidence, compaction, and collapse.