Abstract
Abstract In Charleston, SC, the planned expansion of the Port of Charleston may add to the cumulative impact of environmental pollution in communities already overburdened by Superfund sites, brownfields, leaking underground storage tanks, toxic release inventory facilities, a coal-fired plant, an old incinerator site, and diesel truck traffic. A community–university partnership led by the Low Country Alliance for Model Communities was established to assess baseline pollution levels of trace metals in soil near industrial pollution sources and heavily trafficked roadways before the port expands. The research team trained residents as citizen scientists to collect soil samples (n = 150) near these environmental hazards in Union Heights (UH), Accabee, Chicora-Cherokee, Green Grove, and Rosemont (RM) in June 2012. Soil samples were examined for the presence of arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, mercury, nickel, and zinc. Arsenic, lead, and mercury levels ...
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