ABSTRACT
From a continuing study of the acidification of water supplies and soils in Southeastern Connecticut, the effects of acid rain on other areas of the Eastern Seaboard and on central and northern Europe have been compared. Although acid rain has continued to fall on the entire East coast of the United States for 30 years, the effects are often more noticeable where specific environmental conditions exist. These conditions include the buffering capacity of local soils. From the alkaline soils of the Delaware Basin to the granitic soils of Southeastern Connecticut, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and the Adirondacks of New York the soils of the region play a significant part in what effects the acid rain will have. So also in Sweden and Norway where the soils resemble those in Southeastern Connecticut.
