[CPEO-MEF] Seattle police use Powerflares

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

(This article doesn't mention perchlorate, but it's a common constituent 
of road flares. - LS)

From cars to flares, Seattle police go green
Effort is part of citywide mandate


By HECTOR CASTRO
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER (WA)
May 28, 2007

For the past several years, Seattle's thin blue line has been turning a 
bit green.

Continuing an effort that began when city leaders adopted the 1999 
Environmental Management Plan, the Seattle Police Department has been 
more environmentally friendly -- cutting back on paper use and buying 
battery-operated road flares, even getting some detectives out of their 
Ford Crown Victorias and into hybrid vehicles.

...

The assistant chief said the idea to switch from road flares followed a 
horrific traffic accident last year, one that required several 
incendiary road flares to control traffic. As the night turned to day 
and the flares burned out, they left behind their telltale mounds of 
chalky white ash.

A neighbor came up to Bailey and asked what the officers were going to 
do about the residue. They had planned on having firefighters hose down 
the road, Bailey told her.

"She said, 'Even when you clean it up, won't some of it go down the 
drain?' " Bailey said. "That was the epiphany for me."

...

For the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/317573_greencops28.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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

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