Q&A
Environmental assessments on existing industrial sites
1:54:09
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Council Member Amanda Farías inquires about conducting environmental assessments on existing industrial sites, focusing on potential contamination issues and soil remediation. Qiana Mickie outlines the Office of Urban Agriculture's approach to addressing these concerns.
- Building relationships with partners in citizen science and soil expertise
- Collaborating with Cornell and other agency partners
- Integrating innovative methods while ensuring feasibility for various urban agriculture models
- Creating opportunities for students, nonprofits, and academic partners to participate in the work
Amanda Farías
1:54:09
And how would you, conduct environmental assessments on the existing industrial sites?
1:54:15
I'm I'm interested in, like, potential contamination issues, remediation of soil to make sure that said spaces
Alex Paulenoff
1:54:23
Absolutely.
Amanda Farías
1:54:23
Are usable.
Qiana Mickie
1:54:25
Yes.
1:54:26
So the Office of Urban Agriculture, in order to do this and do this well, we are continuing to build and explore relationships with partners on not just folks in our citizen science, area that already have that expertise in soil, but also identifying partners like Cornell and other agency partners to how to build a more, well rounded, environmental approach to urban agriculture.
1:54:52
So leveraging best practices, but also making sure that we're, integrating innovative, methods in that.
1:54:59
But, again, we wanna also make sure that we're making it feasible and practical for the scale of, models that we're working with and creating opportunities for practitioners from students to, other nonprofit partners, other academic partners to be a part of that work.
1:55:16
That's something we would do in collaboration, but we do identify the need of, incorporating that and continue to explore that.
