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The Physical Environment
The Natural Environment consists of all natural resources, topography, climate, water supply. Environmental Management - monitoring water quality near city landfills, managing remediation projects at city sites where contamination may exist, and promoting environmental initiatives such as recycling programs and air quality programs with other agencies
Natural Environment Determinants:
- Air quality
- Outdoor (exhaust, ozone, pollutants, particulate)
- Indoor (tobacco, insect, mold, dust)
- Water quality (PCB’s, dioxin)
- Land/water use/waste rate (solid waste management- following federal, state, and local environmental regulations in the operation of landfills, using synthetic liners for future landfills, and managing landfill gas to protect the ozone layer
- Per capita water consumption
- Hazardous waste
- Food quality
- Values of key natural resources
- Waste disposal/dumping/sanitation services
- Curbside recycling programs
- Operations – designing and implementing energy management and conservation programs in city facilities
- Procurement – purchasing waste-stream reducing products and environmentally friendly products and collaborating with other departments on various environmental projects
- Transportation- providing and promoting mass transit services, using compressed natural gas for buses, constructing bike and pedestrian pathways, alleviating traffic congestion through roadway and intersection improvements and signal synchronization, and monitoring storm water quality
Local Environmental Organizations:
- Environmental organizations
- Audubon Society - annual species count
- Local Emergency Planning Committee
Ways to Improve Quality of Life and Social-Well-Being:
- Use less water: install low-flow showers, use a drip system for watering plants, turn off the faucet during teeth brushing, collect rainwater off your roof for use during dry times, plant low water use trees and foliage, and only use dishwashers and washing machines when they are full
- Drive less
- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Waste disposed of in the landfill can produceleachate, a toxin which may contaminate groundwater
- Reduce the amount of products you buy that have a lot of packaging or are not recycled or recyclable
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