Infiltration Activity Page part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Instructor Materials:7 - Induced Infiltration to Wells
Students will work with data to allow them to determine the amount of water discharging from the Aberjona River to groundwater when Wells G & H are pumping. The goal is to determine the amount of water that ...

Learning Module: Flooding and the Toxic Trial part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Learning Modules:6 - Flooding
Student Assignment Flood Frequency and Urbanization of the Aberjona River Watershed, Massachusetts Introduction Surface water and groundwater flow systems are often highly interconnected and interdependent. ...

Induced Infiltration part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Instructor Materials:7 - Induced Infiltration to Wells
How to use this module Defining pumping of Wells G. and H was an important and contested issue during the trial. The induced infiltration module provides references regarding methods to measure induced ...

Movement of Contaminants Activity Page part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Instructor Materials:8 - Flow of Contaminants
This module is focused on increasing the users understanding and familiarity with the fate and transport of contaminants. Video clips of sand tank models showing the movement of contaminants in subsurface porous ...

SCIENCE IN THE COURTROOM part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial
This website is designed to help students and instructors use the teaching modules and resource collections from the famous trial described in "A Civil Action" in science and interdisciplinary courses in high school and college.

Creating a Courtroom for a Mock Trial part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Instructor Materials
Scott Bair, Ohio State University Although we used the Moot Courtroom in the Moritz School of Law at Ohio State (see image), any large room can be arranged to hold a mock trial. Don't underestimate your ...

Writing an Expert Report and Creating a C.V. part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Instructor Materials
Scott Bair, Ohio State University Ignore Your Training to Write an Expert Report The first time I wrote an expert report stating my opinions in a case, my attorney read it over, looked at me, took out his red pen ...

TCE and PCE Toxicity, Uses, and Properties part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial:Key Issues in the Trial
TCE and PCE in Wells G and H Trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE) are toxic chlorinated hydrocarbons that were first discovered in wells G and H in May 1979. Water from well G contained 267 parts ...

Case Summary - Anne Anderson et al. v. W.R. Grace & Co. et al. part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial
Overview This landmark case centered on the alleged contamination of two municipal supply wells (G and H) in Woburn, Massachusetts, by three local industries. The plaintiffs were a group of eight families that ...

"A Civil Action" Summary part of A Civil Action - The Woburn Toxic Trial
In 1976, at the age of four, Robbie Robbins was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia. He was one of 28 children who contracted the disease between 1964 and 1986 in Woburn, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb of ...