Environmental Justice Areas

Toxic Sites in Watertown, MA

This map is a representation of the town of Watertown in Massachusetts that has a large amount of area that falls within the environmental justice boundaries. 

Finding the following values in square kilometers
Total area of the town of Watertown	10.6814 sq. Km.
Total area of Environmental Justice in the town of Watertown	3.048343 sq. Km.
Total area of the town that is non-EJ	7.633057 sq. Km.
Total EJ area that is within a 2000 meter buffer of a toxic site	3.048343 sq. Km.
Total non-EJ area that is within a 2000 meter buffer of a toxic site	7.633057 sq. Km.

Calculating the following percentages
Percent of the town that is EJ	29%
Percent of the town that is non-EJ	71%
Percent of EJ area that is within a 2000 meter buffer of a toxic site	100%
Percent of the non-EJ area is within 2000-meter buffer of a toxic site.	100%

The data layers used for this study were toxic sites in Massachusetts, the environmental justice areas in Massachusetts and town boundaries for Massachusetts in order to calculate the total area of Watertown, Ma.

 Looking at the map we conclude that Watertown has 10 unknown toxic sites that can play a role in the severity of the hazards they can cause along with the other toxic sites outside of Watertown that impose a threat to the non EJ areas.