On Monday, August 13, 2007, in a special meeting at the County Courthouse, the City and County voted to turn Health services over to the City and to have the City move the Environmental monitoring from Health Services to the Dept. that handles the City Dump.
Cities who have MD's/Health Dept. covering environmental monitoring (instead of the SOLID WASTE managers handling it):
Dallas
New York City
LA (a whole separate environmental monitoring division) solid waste reports TO the EMD in L.A...
Houston
Norfolk VA
Albuquerque
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Flushing away our future: wastewater putting frogs on endangered list
Sat 04 Aug 2007
Page: E1 / FRONT Section: Weekend Extra Byline: Kenyon Wallace Source: The StarPhoenix "There's a recognized worldwide decline in frogs," says Vance Trudeau, a University of Ottawa biologist who has been investigating the phenomenon for decades. "Common pharmaceuticals, habitat destruction, and increased UV exposure because of ozone depletion -- that's what we're looking at." ...... Trudeau believes the chemicals we flush down our toilets and drains are wreaking havoc on our ecosystems......." [the frogs that lived on the eastern side of the Franklin mts are no longer there...]
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