ISSS608 T3 ASSGN1 PRIYANKA BACKGROUND
"Like a Duck to Water" (Mini Challenge 2)
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Case Background
Kasios, a Furniture Company has been held responsible for environmental damage to the Boonsong Lekagul Wildlife Preserve. It is suspected that the company is dumping toxic waste and polluting the air with chemicals from its manufacturing process. However, Kasios has denied any accusation of industrial waste dumping. Kasios’ spokespersons state that there isn’t any ground contamination near the remote ranger station and they have inspected that area and found it as good as the rest of the preserve.
The ornithology professors from Mistford College are confident that the companys' statements are not true & hence decided to visit the dumping site themselves and perform soil analyses. Unfortunately, there had been recent excavation and construction activities at the site due to which the a new layer of top soil is dumped in. The soil samples taken from the site were an important evidence against Kasios and could have helped in detecting Methylosmolene (the toxic manufacturing chemical in the suspected dumping) or any other contaminant.
With a primary piece of evidence against Kasios now gone, investigators need to take another approach. Professors in the Mistford College Hydrology Department have come forward with several years of water sensor readings from rivers and streams in the preserve. These samples were taken from different locations scattered throughout the area and contain measurements of several chemicals of possible interest, but they have never been analyzed due to lack of funding.
The goal of this challenge is to explore the water sample data set & come up with insights to decide if Kasios is actually polluting the environment.
