WASHINGTON, D.C. – Several projects designed to improve the quality of life for people living and working in Lower Manhattan got the green light by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez.
Managed by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC), the $156 million post 9/11 plan will provide funding to improve public parks and open spaces, to make street improvements, and to provide to more pedestrian-friendly access in Lower Manhattan.
The announcement is part of a total $3.4 billion HUD is providing in direct assistance to help struggling businesses, to provide residential incentives and to revitalize Lower Manhattan since the September 11th attacks.
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LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. – The Trust for Public Land recently added 525 acres to the Cleveland National Forest in Orange County to help create Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park.
A loop trail traverses Black Star and Fremont Canyons and connects to existing open space in the surrounding area. The proposed wilderness park will be a major forest-access point for the community and will play an important role in the preservation of open space in Orange County.
The area is home to numerous sensitive and endangered species, such as the California gnatcatcher, red diamondback rattlesnakes, mountain lions, and several types of plants.
For more information on the Trust for Public Land, visit www.tpl.org.
NOKOMIS, Fla. – WESCO Fountains, Inc., has a new high-intensity landscape light that can be used above ground to illuminate shrubs and ornamental tress with a strong stream of light. It can also be used in or near fountains as perimeter lighting, or to illuminate shooting streams of water.
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Over the last 25 years, WESCO has created more than 5,000 fountain projects, and is now developing themed water art.
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. – Richard Atwater of the Inland Empire Utilities Agency and president of the Southern California Salinity coalition, Inc. recently testified at the Colorado River Salinity Control Forum about the goals and objectives of the Coalition.
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An action plan for a Salinity Management Study includes establishing source control salinity measures to reduce the concentration of imported supplies; controlling the local sources of salt; constructing brine sewers to export salts; and desalinating wastewater and brackish groundwater to allow the reuse and recycling of salinity-impaired local supplies and to reduce dependence on water supplies from the Colorado River and California State Water Project.
For more information visit www.nwri-usa.org.
PASADENA, Calif. – The American Planning Association (APA) Los Angeles section has honored the Hollywood Bowl Design Guidelines with its first-place Planning Implementation Award for a Large Jurisdiction.
The Design Guidelines are a component of the Hollywood Bowl Shell Rehabilitation and Acoustical Improvements project.
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The County of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association sponsored the development of the Design Guidelines for the Hollywood Bowl Performing Arts Complex County Regional Park.
MADISON, Wisc. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Engineering Professional Development will offer a short course, Soil Engineering for Non-Soils Engineers and Technicians, Oct. 23-24 in Madison.
Landscape architects, architects, public works professionals and others will receive a basic, non-mathematical, practical course to solve soil problems and better understand soil behavior.
The Soil Engineering course will teach attendees about the basic soil concepts, importance of water in soils, effective stress and shear strength, how soils compress, slope stability and landslides and much more.
For more information call 608-262-0577 or visit http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/webF403.
MADISON, Wisc. – The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Engineering Professional Development will offer a new short course, Geosynthetics for Beginners, November 19-20 in Las Vegas.
Construction site supervisors and inspectors entry level design and specifying professionals and municipal engineers and managers will receive a basic, practical course on the use of geosynthetics to stabilize difficult site conditions and the proper techniques to install these cost-saving products.
This course will teach attendees about soil stabilization and separation, paved roads and maintenance, embankments over soft soil, construction site erosion control, permanent erosion control, surface drainage and filters, pond liners and landfills, retaining walls and steep slopes, foundation support, specifications and other topics, case studies and examples.
For more information call 608-262-0577 or visit http://epdweb.engr.wisc.edu/webF404.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Now through May 2004, the National Preservation Institute will be holding seminars throughout the country on historic preservation and cultural resource management.
Seminars bring distinguished faculty to highlight state-of-the-art practice in important areas of historic preservation and cultural resource management. The seminars focus on enhancing the skills of professionals responsible for the preservation, protection, and interpretation of historic, archeological, cultural and environmental resources.
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For seminar descriptions, agendas, faculty background and registration information, visit www.npi.org.
SAN DIEGO – Glen Schmidt, principal of Schmidt Design Group, Inc., recently returned from the International Trails and Greenways Conference in Providence, RI, where he was presented with two national design awards for landscape architecture.
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The Silver Strand project includes linear park enhancements in several areas along the seven-mile SR 75 scenic highway on the Silver Strand in Coronado. The Solana Beach project is a 1.7-mile long linear park in Solana Beach, Calif., which includes a narrow area of land between Highway 101 and the train tracks from Via De La Valle to the San Elijo Lagoon.
The awards were co-sponsored by the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and the American Society of Landscape Architects.
500,000: The number of playground injuries reported by the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons each year. The estimated cost? $10 billion.
