‘Send us your dirt from Sandy,’ scientists ask Brooklynites
A team of chemistry professors is asking Brooklyn residents to send them baggies filled with dirt from areas inundated with floodwater during Superstorm Sandy.
The goal of the project — called Send Us your Dirt from Sandy, or SUDS — is to determine how contaminated the soil actually is, researcher Alison Spodek Keimowitz told the Brooklyn Paper.
If the soil is contaminated, the team will notify the Environmental Protection Agency.