-- For a special report, the county supervisor must determine the area -- of sensitive areas and five-mile hazardous site radii that aren't -- intersected. -- The sensitive_areas table contains several columns that describe the -- threatened institutions in addition to the zone column, which stores -- the institutions' ST_Polygon geometries. CREATE TABLE sensitive_areas (id integer, name varchar(128), size float, type varchar(10), zone ST_Polygon); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES( 1, 'Johnson County Hospital', 102281.91, 'hospital', ST_PolyFromText('polygon ((22000 45000,22000 58000,28000 58000,28000 42000,25000 42000,25000 45000,22000 45000))',1000) ); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES( 2, 'Rydale Nursing Home', 53926.54, 'nursing hm', ST_PolyFromText('polygon ((22000 18000,28000 18000,28000 12000,22000 12000,22000 18000))',1000) ); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES( 3, 'Summerhill Elementary School', 67920.64, 'school', ST_PolyFromText('polygon ((42000 18000,48000 18000,48000 13000,42000 13000,42000 18000))',1000) ); -- The hazardous_sites table stores the identity of the sites in the -- site_id and name columns, while the actual geographic location of -- each site is stored in the location point column. CREATE TABLE hazardous_sites (site_id integer, name varchar(128), location ST_Point); INSERT INTO hazardous_sites VALUES( 102, 'W. H. Kleenare Chemical Repository', ST_PointFromText('point (7000 47000)',1000) ); INSERT INTO hazardous_sites VALUES( 59, 'Landmark Industrial', ST_PointFromText('point (48000 39000)',1000) ); -- The ST_Buffer function generates a five-mile buffer surrounding the -- hazardous waste site locations. The ST_Union function generates polygons -- from the union of the buffered hazardous waste site polygons and the -- sensitive areas. The ST_Area function returns the unioned polygon's area. SELECT sa.name sensitive_area, hs.name hazardous_site, ST_Area(ST_Union(ST_Buffer(hs.location,(5 * 5280)),sa.zone)::ST_MultiPolygon) area FROM hazardous_sites hs, sensitive_areas sa;