Q&A
Criteria for soil remediation and contamination testing
1:55:24
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48 sec
Council Member Amanda Farías seeks clarification on the criteria for conducting research on soil remediation and contamination testing for industrial sites being converted to urban agriculture. Qiana Mickie explains the collaborative approach to addressing these concerns.
- Collaboration with other city offices specializing in Climate, Environmental Justice, and Environmental Remediation
- Leveraging expertise from various agency partners
- Plans to integrate urban agriculture approaches and models into the assessment process
Amanda Farías
1:55:24
So just to reclarify, if we're looking at existing industrial sites that we're going to convert into urban agriculture or farm usage, do we have certain criteria that will be set to conduct x amount of research around remediation of soil or if any contamination of soil exists?
Qiana Mickie
1:55:44
So there we have additional offices in Climate, Environmental Justice, and Environmental Remuneration, as well as other agency partners that have a wheelhouse and expertise in that information.
1:55:56
So we explain we plan to continue to collaborate and be informed and work with them.
1:56:01
What we're also help hoping to continue to do in our collaboration is including and integrate any other urban ag approaches or models into that as well.
1:56:11
Okay.
Amanda Farías
1:56:12
Mhmm.
