Jax picked for $100,000 EPA program

[fieldafm]

Via Jax Biz Journal....
http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2010/04/26/daily16.html


The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has selected Jacksonville as one of 10 communities across the nation to receive a $100,000 grant to address environmental and health challenges.

The pilot, which kicks off Friday, will focus on Health Zone 1. The area encompasses Springfield and a large portion of the city’s Northside.

The money will fund projects over the next two years. More information will be provided about the project on Friday, when government representatives officially launch the program. The kickoff will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Beaver Street Enterprise Center.

On Saturday, May 1, EPA and the city of Jacksonville have organized a community cleanup of the area surrounding Richard L. Brown Elementary School at 1535 Milnor Street from 8:30 a.m. to noon. The cleanup will be conducted along Deer Creek in order to bring attention to an area with contamination.

[konstantconsumer]

Hopefully Hogan creek will be included in that.  Someone can finally get the shopping carts and other random stuff out.

[billy]

What does deer creek feed into?

[urbanlibertarian]

Deer Creek apparently flows east from MLK (Haines St.) Expy. under Talleyrand Av. to the St. Johns river near Jones Chemicals.

[JC]

I have personally witnessed the "retention" pond across the street from Millenium Chemicals fail.  I have also seen during down pours, every bit of chemical on the ground run off down hill into that Trout River tributary.  A hundred grand aint shit!

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=millenium+chemicals+jacksonville&sll=48.419024,4.761608&sspn=6.35951,21.291504&ie=UTF8&hq=millenium+chemicals&hnear=Jacksonville,+FL&ll=30.378313,-81.663297&spn=0.001902,0.005198&t=h&z=18&iwloc=A

[Dog Walker]

$100K will hardly pay for the flyers and the bottled water and the off-duties for the kick-off.

[Miss Fixit]

$100K will hardly pay for the flyers and the bottled water and the off-duties for the kick-off.

That's what I was thinking - this money must just be for promotion of volunteer cleanups or something similar.  Better than nothing, though

[Peg]

I missed this thread until now....  So has anyone heard about the cleanup on Saturday?  Was it well attended?   Seems like a great opportunity to involve youth in changing their world.

I agree with you guys, 100,000k is barely enough for bottled water and noisemakers, but I never heard any noise.  Will be interesting to follow the money.

[civil42806]

100k won't even pay for the chief administrator that the city will have to hire to oversee the program.