This project began as a class project at Brown University for ES 126: Public Perception of the Environment.

It has been expanded in summer research and research during the 2002-2003 academic year.

The goals of this project are:

· to understand the perceptions and experiences of Pascoag residents to the contamination
· to understand how officials perceived their roles and responsibilities in dealing with the situation
· to understand how the different parties involved communicated with each other and to identify areas of disconnect
· to develop draft recommendations for programmatic, regulatory and legislative changes to improve local and state response to such events

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