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For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
8/3/16 photo by Stephen Badger, Office of Communications
Staff and Conservation Jobs Corps members at Patapsco help cleanup the Avalon area after devastating flash floods rocked central Maryland on July 30, 2016.
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
8/3/16 photo by Stephen Badger, Office of Communications
Staff and Conservation Jobs Corps members at Patapsco help cleanup the Avalon area after devastating flash floods rocked central Maryland on July 30, 2016.
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
Work is getting underway on a new water treatment plant in Pittsfield financed with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment (federal “stimulus”) Act administered by Illinois EPA. (Oct 2009)
Nearly $71 million in Recovery Act funds are putting Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on track to wrap up several legacy environmental cleanup projects at two research reactors by September 2011.
The completion of the Recovery Act projects at BNL will end all EM legacy cleanup activities at the Lab.
Taking part in an active environmental community is paramount which is why we not only organise our own beach cleanup events but also help out whenever we are invited to join other organisations or groups who organise events which share our goals and dreams!
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
8/3/16 photo by Stephen Badger, Office of Communications
Staff and Conservation Jobs Corps members at Patapsco help cleanup the Avalon area after devastating flash floods rocked central Maryland on July 30, 2016.
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
Divers help cleanup at Redondo Beach. Over 14,000 volunteers took part in Coastal Cleanup Day in Los Angeles County, cleaning up beaches, parks, alleys, creeks, highways and storm drains at 69 different sites. Over 300,000 pounds of debris and recyclables were removed by the various environmental organizations, community groups, families, local businesses, faith-based organizations and students that took part. Redondo Beach, Los Angeles, California, USA
8/3/16 photo by Stephen Badger, Office of Communications
Staff and Conservation Jobs Corps members at Patapsco help cleanup the Avalon area after devastating flash floods rocked central Maryland on July 30, 2016.
8/3/16 photo by Stephen Badger, Office of Communications
Staff and Conservation Jobs Corps members at Patapsco help cleanup the Avalon area after devastating flash floods rocked central Maryland on July 30, 2016.
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
Extreme vervuiling schoonmaak / Gross filth cleanup - Schoonmaakbedrijf Frisse Kater - www.frissekater.nl
8/3/16 photo by Stephen Badger, Office of Communications
Staff and Conservation Jobs Corps members at Patapsco help cleanup the Avalon area after devastating flash floods rocked central Maryland on July 30, 2016.
8/3/16 photo by Stephen Badger, Office of Communications
Staff and Conservation Jobs Corps members at Patapsco help cleanup the Avalon area after devastating flash floods rocked central Maryland on July 30, 2016.
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
8/3/16 photo by Stephen Badger, Office of Communications
Staff and Conservation Jobs Corps members at Patapsco help cleanup the Avalon area after devastating flash floods rocked central Maryland on July 30, 2016.
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
Nearly $71 million in Recovery Act funds are putting Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) on track to wrap up several legacy environmental cleanup projects at two research reactors by September 2011.
The completion of the Recovery Act projects at BNL will end all EM legacy cleanup activities at the Lab.
For more information or to arrange immediate scene cleanup, visit our website at www.AdvancedBio-Treatment.com
I took this photograph while leading a cleanup effort on Good Neighbor Day, November 12, 2022, at Sentinel Swamp. What you're seeing in the photograph is a couple of the volunteers collecting bags and bags worth of plastic and metal trash that have piled up in and around a swamp in College Park. I will be relating this photo to SDG 6, which has the goal to "Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all" (Goal 6). The related ecological concept is maintenance and care for local ecological and social communities.
According to the Goal 6 webpage, over 85% of the planet's wetlands have been lost over the past 300 years (Goal 6). This is pretty obviously related to this location, as swamps are a wetland and hold pretty significant ecological importance. Swamps reduce the damage and flooding from storms, which are not uncommon in College Park. They also recharge groundwater, provide carbon storage, and assist in stabilization of climate conditions ("Why Wetlands Are Important"). Focusing on just the flooding aspect alone, College Park is no stranger to it. We are in a floodplain 69 feet above sea level and parts of CP suffered some significant flooding in September 2020. Various residents faced complete flooding of cars and apartments, as well as sewage upwelling into homes through the drains. One instance alone of storm outlets being covered was when the local metro tracks were built, leaving allegedly just one outlet for flooding ("Flooding Continues to Plague College Park"). Coincidentally, those metro tracks are just mere yards to the left of where I took the above photo.
Flooding was just one issue that I wanted to bring up in relation to why swamps like this one are so important, especially for areas like ours. College Park has so much development and so many impervious surfaces, with apparently little outlet for the significant rainfall that happens multiple times a year. And as an eyewitness to all the construction around the University of Maryland alone, the major levels of development are not going away. And because of that, it makes it more important for us to protect the areas that help alleviate such prominent issues such flooding. With so much pollution in this one area alone, it could become even more dangerous and unsanitary.
Further than just high-water level, flooding becomes a tool of transporting such pollution and wastes through streets and surrounding environments. The pollutants we picked up were largely nonpoint sources. As water picks up and runs through soil. it collects contaminants left by these half-drunken bottles, dirty plastic bags, etc. and can wash them directly into now contaminated waterways and soils ("Watersheds, Flooding, and Pollution"). Pollution of soil leads to, but is not limited to, disruptions in metabolisms of microorganisms and small organisms at the base of food chains, decrease in fertility of soil and just general groundwater contamination ("6 Devastating Effects"). Groundwater pollution can lead to disease risks and animals and humans, as well as birth defects ("What Are the Effects").
Issues like these are why we went out on Good Neighbor Day in the first place. The goal of such volunteering was to help the local community through different projects related to pollution cleanup, removing invasive species, and repopulating some bees just to name a few ("Good Neighbor Day"). Caring for these ecological and social local communities was so important, as our wellbeing directly ties into them. Water is the foundation of life, and it is so important to make sure that our neighbors and members of the community are able to access it in a safe way, while also benefitting from its related ecological processes in different ways. Water, health and community go hand in hand and should be our top priorities.
Works Cited:
Brown, Razi. “What Is an Ecological Concept? - [2022] Expert Guide.” Jotscroll, 3 July 2022, www.jotscroll.com/what-is-an-ecological-concept#:~:text=T....
“Goal 6: Ensure Availability and Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation for All.” United Nations, United Nations, sdgs.un.org/goals/goal6.
“Good Neighbor Day.” Office of Community Engagement, oce.umd.edu/good-neighbor-day/.
“Watersheds, Flooding, and Pollution.” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/freshwater/wa....
“What Are the Effects of Groundwater Pollution.” All American Environmental, 12 June 2021, allamericanenviro.com/what-are-the-effects-of-groundwater....
“Why Wetlands Are Important.” NSW Environment and Heritage, 12 June 2018, www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/water/wetlands/why-wetl....