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TESTING THE WATERS

57 minutes/Grades 9-Adult (In 3 parts for schools: Part 1. 22
min., Part 2. 21 min., Part 3. 15 min.)

Produced by Lynn Corcoran

The Niagara River, most famous for the Niagara Falls, receives
hazardous wastes from industrial plants and from the largest
concentration of leaking hazardous waste dumps in North America...
before delivering drinking water to 5 million Americans and
Canadians.TESTING THE WATERS documents a decade-long process: from
the public recognition of a toxic pollution problem in the Niagara
River, through the struggle to develop solutions, to the clean-up
that has now begun.

The documentary considers the competing interests of industry,
governments, and citizens -- each with a different answer to the
question, "How clean is clean?"

It explains complex concepts at the heart of our emerging
national hazardous waste agenda: risk assessment, "acceptable"
levels of toxic chemical exposure, concentration of toxins in the
food chain, how government regulators should act in the absence of
hard scientific evidence, and the difficulty of choosing among
hazardous waste clean-up technologies, all of them new and
untested. The large scale program to clean up the Niagara River
establishes precedents for the rest of the country, where
thousands of polluted waterways remain to be cleaned up. With
Teacher's Guide by Bill Stapp.

Awards: CINE Golden Eagle %Ecovision; Cum Laude, Medikinale Inter-
national, Parma; International Film & TV Festival, New York

• "There is a renewed interest in water... the critical need is
  to spend an hour with Corcoran's documentary to better understand
  the issues and then to act in support of restoration." The Buffalo
  News
  

• "This powerful documentary... will stimulate discussion and
  some hard thinking at all levels from middle school to graduate
  school." Choice
  

• "A good program, suitable for use in junior and senior high
  school libraries. Recommended." Video Librarian
  

Subject Areas: HAZARDOUS WASTE, STS, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL STUDIES,
WATER POLLUTION, GREEN RIVERS

ISBN: 1-56029-023-4

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