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  1. @drahardja Before Before the #NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct of 1970 (#NEPA) and the #ResourceConservationAndRecoveryAct of 1976 (#RCRA), US oversight of wastes was in the hands of the #ArmyCorpsOfEngineers & the US Public Health Service (#USPHS). The PHS was so weak that the waste industry didn’t bother to corrupt it, unlike some of their successors. They were concerned about unsafe #Garbage and #Sewage disposal practices and their impacts on waters and health. They did a study. 1/4

  2. PODCAST: Key Biscayne’s sea level rise cost is $250 - $300 million, manager says. :

    Nov. 8th, Williamson is hosting a town hall with top engineers from the project to address public questions about the projects, which are under scrutiny after the price of the flood control project alone came in at $310 million in August. 
    #AECOM #ArmyCorpsofEngineers #AT&ampT #BearCutBridge #BigDig

    kbindependent.org/2023/11/05/p

  3. Key Biscayne blazes trail for County’s Back Bay storm surge study :

    “The work at the Village of Key Biscayne is really a microcosm of what we’ve been talking about across the entire landscape,” said Jim Murley, the chief resilience officer for Miami-Dade County.
    #ArmyCorpsofEngineers #AtlanticOcean #BackBayStudy #coastalprotection #DaniellaLevineCava #dunes #HurrianeIan #Hurricane #man

    kbindependent.org/2023/08/25/k

  4. Fish farming: Virginia Key scientists aim to put U.S. aquaculture on top :

    Aquaculture is one of the fast growing industries worldwide, he said. And there is a reason for that: overfishing that has left global fisheries stagnant or in decline.
    #acquaculture #ArmyCorpsofEngineers #fishfarm #hatchery #JohnStieglitz #MiamiAquaCulture #NOAA #Ocean #overfishing #RosenstielSchool #science #se

    kbindependent.org/2023/07/03/f