Contamination
Major Events
Class Concepts
Numbers
Power Players
100
In 1990, an underground aquifer became polluted, setting the stage for our case.
What is Wichita Contamination?
100
The year Gilbert Mosley was discovered.
What is August 1990?
100
A hands on, ground level employee. City Manager Cherches is exemplary of this concept.
What is street level bureaucrat?
100
This project, presented at the beginning of the case, would raise property value and was originally estimated to cost $375 million.
What is Wichita's urban renewal.
100
City Manager of Wichita, in charge of contamination cleanup.
What is Cherches?
200
This causes cancer and other health problems, and it was detected in some private and industrial wells in Wichita's core area.
What is hazardous chemicals?
200
One year after the Certificate and Release program began, and officials were finally optimistic the downtown Wichita area would be revitalized.
What is August 1992?
200
This concept allowed City Manager Cherches to take control of his city's crisis at his "layer" of government.
What is multilayer governance?
200
The original, quick cost estimate for cleaning up the aquifer.
What is $20 million?
200
The camping equipment company that became financially responsible for most of the cleanup.
What is Coleman?
300
Our case surrounds this name because it marked the cross street where the aquifer could be found underground
What is Gilbert and Mosley?
300
Kansas Department of Health and Environment drafted two recommendations for contamination cleanup to avoid this.
What is avoiding becoming a Superfund Site?
300
Actively encourages joint intergovernmental action and emphasizes shared goals across the federal system. Example: Cherches worked with the EPA with a shared goal to clean up the Gilbert Mosley sight.
What is cooperative federalism?
300
The aquifer was this far under the ground at Gilbert and Mosley.
What is 15 feet below the surface.
300
This federal agency that is responsible for Superfund sites.
What is EPA.
400
Wichita officials did not feel the aquifer was _______ because it was 15 feet below the surface and not used for drinking water.
What is not a health hazard?
400
After reviewing KDHE's recommendations, City Manager Cherches selected this option to manage the crisis: as a result of contamination, the city would devalue property in the Gilbert Mosley area and then immediately raise value to pre contamination levels.
What is creating the tax decrement finance district?
400
A system that allows actors to pursue immediate interests with little regard for consequences. Ex: This concept describes Cherches using the Wichita contamination site as a means to raise housing value and revitalize the community.
What is opportunistic federalism?
400
Number of zones in the recovery solution?
What is 3.
400
Kansas's state level representative of the EPA.
What is KDHE, Kansas Department of Health and Environment?
500
When the EPA takes over a contamination site and forces area businesses and local government to pay for clean up.
What is a Superfund Site?
500
Cherches agreed to do this, along with regular reports, to keep from becoming a Superfund site.
What is following EPA's requirements.
500
Term describing Cherches assigning responsibility between Coleman and Wichita for cleaning up the contamination site.
What is accountability?
500
4 miles long, 1.5 miles wide.
What is how big was the Gilbert Mosley sight?
500
The scene of our environmental crime.
What is Witchita?
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