Appendix 1—Site Selection: Potential Sources for Pollutants and EMF.
The Committee recognizes that few, if any, building sites are likely to be free of all the pollutant sources listed below. The recommendation is to minimize proximity to as many of these sources as possible in order to maximize outdoor environmental quality and hence indoor environmental quality.
Table A-1 Potential Sources of Pollutants and EMF
| General (Air, Soil) |
Engine Exhaust |
Pesticides |
Industrial/Commercial |
EMF |
- Recognized area of poor air quality
- Smog
- Smoke (chimney, industrial, etc.)
- Superfund Sites
- Brownfields
- Landfills
- Hazardous waste sites
- Compost sites
- Underground storage tanks
- Floodplains
- Wetlands
- Filled-in wetlands
- Military bases
|
- Heavy traffic
- Highways
- Interstates
- Diesel exhaust
- Airports
|
- Agriculture (unless organic)
- Golf courses
- Mosquito spraying
- Parks & Forests
- Roadside spraying
- Dairies
- Chicken & hog farms
- Other intensive livestock operations
|
- Refineries
- Mines
- Chemical plants
- Cement plants
- Power plants
- Manufacturing
- Logging/Pulp mills
- Incinerators
- Sewage treatment plants
- Gas stations
- Dry cleaners
- Other commercial sources that emit air pollutants (See Appendix 5 on Use & Occupancy)
|
- Substations
- Cell phone towers
- Radio towers
- Transponders
- Transformers
- High tension lines
- Electrical distribution lines
- Radar installations
- Military bases
- Airports
- Electrical Transportation
- Power-generating dams
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