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| Balrog0 05/10/17 4:37:33 PM #15: | meingott posted... How does one get involved in measuring water quality in ports and in other places? My limited understanding is that it involves the EPA and the state department of environmental quality. There are public or quasi-public databases for contamination in the water tables, and the port could create an internal inventory if they spent the resources on doing so meingott posted... And how would you go about securing the funding and authority needed to actually drive improvements in water quality? The port authority doesn't have the ability to command from on-high except in very limited areas, so the authority isn't there. The funding is, though. There are a lot of grants (governmental and NGO) to make these kind of investments. One of the things I pointed out is that is a good function for a public authority like the port to pursue -- gather data and disseminate it to tenants and then help them secure outside funds for specific improvements. meingott posted... How do you acquire data when corporations or governments in an area aren't being cooperative? you can't, so you have to convince them its worth cooperating --- He would make his mark, if not on this tree, then on that wall; if not with teeth and claws, then with penknife and razor. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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