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Sampling from Superfund Sites

Posted on September 05, 2008

This article was was written by Regine Debatty in March 2006. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.The Soil Sampling Shoes are part of a larger project, Gardening Superfund Sites. They attempt to covertly take soil samples of Superfund waste sites in Silicon Valley as the wearer simply walks around on the soil. In researching the sites, Amy Franceschini found that there are 29 sites in Santa Clara County. This is the most concentrated area of toxic sites in America. Many of the companies responsible for contaminating this area were making products that t...

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