From: Construction of an environmental quality index for public health research
Constructs indented | Metropolitan - urbanized | Non-metro urbanized | Less-urbanized | Thinly populated | Overall |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | (RUCC1 = 1089) | (RUCC2 = 323) | (RUCC 3 = 1059) | (RUCC4 = 670) | (n = 3141) |
Water Domain | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
  Overall water quality |  |  |  |  |  |
% of stream length impaired in county | 0.0078 | 0.0063 | −0.0067 | −0.0172 | 0.0031 |
  General water contamination |  |  |  |  |  |
Industrial permits | −0.0214 | −0.0394 | −0.0078 | 0.0084 | −0.0114 |
  Recreational water quality |  |  |  |  |  |
# of days of beach closure | −0.0019 | −0.0072 | 0.0085 | 0.0092 | 0 |
  Domestic use water quality |  |  |  |  |  |
% Population which is on surface water supply | 0.0190 | 0.0175 | 0.0098 | 0.0346 | 0.0220 |
  Atmospheric deposition |  |  |  |  |  |
Calcium (Ca) precipitation weighted mean | 0.0325 | 0.0179 | 0.0231 | −0.0055 | 0.0154 |
Total Mercury (Hg) deposition | −0.0413 | −0.0359 | −0.0293 | 0.0072 | −0.0228 |
  Drought |  |  |  |  |  |
% of county drought – extreme (D3-D4) | 0.0035 | 0.0337 | 0.0234 | 0.0242 | 0.0164 |
  Chemical contamination |  |  |  |  |  |
Selenium | 0.1123 | 0.1196 | 0.1044 | 0.1071 | 0.1103 |
Silvex | 0.1217 | 0.1209 | 0.1204 | 0.1270 | 0.1226 |
Chlordane | 0.1314 | 0.1344 | 0.1343 | 0.1346 | 0.1336 |
1,2-Dichloropropane | 0.1451 | 0.1452 | 0.1512 | 0.1461 | 0.1473 |
Alpha Particles | 0.0620 | 0.0794 | 0.0703 | 0.0704 | 0.0691 |