Killer Smog

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Killer Smog A deadly story set in a small Pennsylvania town.

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Killer Smog. A deadly story set in a small Pennsylvania town. Donora…. …is a mill town on the Monongahela River. Location of the Donora Zinc Works and the American Steel & Wire Plant. Smoke was released into the air every day from the zinc smelter process. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Killer SmogA deadly story set in a small

Pennsylvania town.

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Donora…

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…is a mill town on the Monongahela

River

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Location of theDonora Zinc Works

and the American Steel & Wire Plant

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Smoke was released into the air every day from the zinc smelter process.

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October 26th, 1948One of the worst air

pollution disasters in the nation’s history happened

here…

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Smog was so thick that you could hardly see…

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12 NOON

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7000 residents (1/2 of the town’s population) had respiratory symptoms…

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Some had nausea and vomiting, headaches and abdominal

cramps as well.

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After 5 days, rain began to fall and wash the pollutants

from the sky.

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In a 12-hour period, 18 people died.

Within a month, the number was up to 70.

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How did this happen?

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BREAK-OUT RESEARCH:1. TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS2. ZINC SMELTING PROCESS

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