Hello Volunteers and Partners, Keep Orlando Beautiful is partnering with the NBA All Stars to collect and recycle your old electronics, see attached flyer here: 2012_Recycling_Flyer Friday 2/17 and Saturday 2/18 – Jody (Goostree) Buyas Keep Orlando Beautiful Coordinator 407.246.2752 office 407.254.4723 graffiti hotline www.cityoforlando.net/kob
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Electronic Waste Recycling Event This Friday 2/17 and Saturday 2/18
Posted in City of Orlando, Environment/Wildlife, Get Involved! Involvement Opportunity, tagged 2012, Electronic Waste recycling, Keep Orlando Beautiful on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Quarterly update for Sellers Auto / Artist Studio petroleum cleanup site 489201547 / 489201548 update #61)
Posted in Environment/Wildlife, Lake Formosa, Philadelphia/Alden Pollution cleanup, tagged Sellers Auto cleanup Orange County EPA 2012 on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
February 1, 2012 Ms. Mills, I would like to take this opportunity to give you our sixty first update on the project. Since the last update on November 1st, we secured funding for the first two quarters of Post Active Remediation Monitoring (PARM). The first sampling event has not occurred yet, but I expect to [...]
Volunteers Needed! Lake Formosa Annual Cleanup March 17th
Posted in Annual Lake Cleanup, City of Orlando, Community Happenings, Environment/Wildlife, Get Involved! Involvement Opportunity, tagged annual Lake Formosa lake cleanup on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This year, we’ll be doing the cleanup as part of a larger, coordinated city-wide effort with Keep Orlando Beautiful. See pdf here for details, or below. 2012 citybeautifulwaterwaycleanup VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Saturday, March 17, 2012 9 – 11 am Register by Friday, March 9th: call 407.246.2752 or email Jody.Buyas@cityoforlando.net
Monthly update for Sellers Auto / Artist Studio petroleum cleanup site 489201547 / 489201548 update #60)
Posted in Environment/Wildlife, news, Philadelphia/Alden Pollution cleanup, tagged cleanup, Orange County EPA on November 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Damon: Thanks as always Damon for your monthly report. Great news you and the cleanup team have achieved the long-term goals of this project and are nearing the final stages! We’ve sincerely appreciated the reports with updates and milestone achievements all along these past 60 months. No problem on going to quarterly reports. We appreciate [...]
Monthly update for Sellers Auto / Artist Studio petroleum cleanup site 489201547 / 489201548 update #59)
Posted in Environment/Wildlife, Lake Formosa, tagged 2011, Orange Country EPA on October 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
October 3, 2011 Ms. Mills, I would like to take this opportunity to give you our fifty-ninth monthly update on the project. The good news is that at the end of the last quarterly period the system was turned off and, as long as the site is clean for the second consecutive quarter, the system will [...]
Keep Orlando Beautiful September Events
Posted in City of Orlando, Environment/Wildlife, Get Involved! Involvement Opportunity, tagged Keep Orlando Beautiful, September 2011 on August 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hello Volunteers and Partners, Our annual Florida Coastal Cleanup is coming up on Saturday, September 17th! I know many of you look forward to volunteering with us and have done so for many years. If you never have before, come out and see what it’s all about! Also coming up on Saturday, September 24th is [...]
OCHEEP! Program in Ivanhoe Village
Posted in Environment/Wildlife, Get Involved! Involvement Opportunity, Ivanhoe Village, tagged energy conservation, Orange County on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hello Everyone: OCHEEP! is a great opportunity for homeowners to learn how to lower their energy bills while having a positive affect on the environment. OCHEEP! offers rebates to workshop participants to help offset the cost of purchases such as new energy efficient refrigerators and air conditioning/heating units. Here’s the notice posted on Orange County [...]
Monthly update for Sellers Auto / Artist Studio petroleum cleanup site 489201547 / 489201548 (special update – update #57)
Posted in Environment/Wildlife, Lake Formosa, Philadelphia/Alden Pollution cleanup, tagged EPA, Orange County on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Damon: It doesn’t seem possible it has already been 57 months since project start, but here we are today and the project is almost complete. If the wells cited do not rebound, it sounds like project will be completed by end of this calendar year. Thank you for keeping us well-posted on the results. This [...]
Monthly update for Sellers Auto / Artist Studio petroleum cleanup site 489201547 / 489201548 (Update # 56)
Posted in Environment/Wildlife, Lake Formosa, Philadelphia/Alden Pollution cleanup, tagged cleanup, EPA, Orange County, reporting on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
July 1, 2011 Ms. Mills, I would like to take this opportunity to give you our fifty-sixth monthly update on the project. General Status: There have not been any major changes with the operational strategy or sampling plan for the site in several months. Yesterday, Argus performed the annual sampling event. I expect in two [...]
Eco-Action Canoe Lake Cleanups
Posted in Community Happenings, Environment/Wildlife, Get Involved! Involvement Opportunity, tagged 2011, EcoAction, Florida, lake cleanup, Orlando, Summer on July 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dear ECO-Canoeists, We’ve just had our first Canoe Clean-up with our new van!! It took us and the trailer to Lake Mills and back again!! See our transportation: http://www.eco-action.net/images/caravan2011.jpg And, we can store all our gear in it! SO,Friends, we are back to weekly Sunday afternoon Clean-Ups as we have done over 600 times in [...]