PFAS Contamination in Freshwater Ecosystems: Correlations with Proximity to Polluters and Trends within fish groups
Data sources:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Rivers and Streams Assessment (NRSA)
2020 Great Lakes Human Health Fish Fillet Tissue Study
U.S. Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics (military base latitude/longitude)
y-axis = fish PFAS measurement
PFAS concentrations in freshwater fish fillets increase quadratically as the distance to a PFAS generating facility decreases, showing the circular dispersion of PFAS from its source.
x-axis = combines distance to pollution source, elevation, fish length
I will add details about the model soon