From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:16:22 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Iowa historic aerial photos |
Tracking historic photos took detective work The Hawk Eye (IA) January 11, 2009The DNR had to do its own detective work to track down the aerial photos, originally authorized in 1933. The forerunner of today's USDA Farm Service Agency ordered the statewide aerial photography as a tool to review land uses, ensure compliance with acreage reduction programs and develop soil surveys. It took four years to find and process these first statewide aerial photos. Originally housed in what are now the county offices of the Farm Service Agency, some of these photos had been lost. ..."Iowa was the first state to use brownfield money for this project," said Mel Pins, brownfield coordinator. "We used a federal grant to find the aerial photos in highly populated areas where we were most likely to find some industrial sites that could potentially be contaminated. Then we expanded the project to cover the entire state." ... For the entire article, see http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/Aerial-photos-011109-sidebar -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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