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Priorities
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Improve Urban Environment and Public Health Issues.
Hartford:
Your Health and Your Environment is a website and briefing
book that was developed as a result of a joint project
of the Hartford Health Department, Urban Environmental
Program of the US EPA, University of Connecticut Environmental
Resource Institute, and the JSI Center for Environmental
Health Studies. The aim of the website and briefing book
is to offer an educational opportunity for Hartford residents
to encourage community participation in urban environmental
public policy. These resources cover the following environmental
issues that are of concern for Hartford residents: lead
poising, asthma, indoor air quality, outdoor air quality,
open space, brownfields, and environmental justice Combat
Childhood Lead Poisoning.
Childhood lead poisoning rates in Hartford are twice the state average at 12.9 percent and asthma rates are nearly double the national average at 17 percent.
- Improve Ambient and Indoor Air Quality.
Hartford is the home to a regional landfill, a sewage treatment plant, and a trash-to-energy incinerator. The trash-to-energy incinerator contributes to the stationary air pollution in the City. Two major interstate highways (I-84 and I-91) go through Hartford and four state highways traverse the city causing 70 percent of the mobile source carbon monoxide in the city.
- Clean up and Revitalize Urban Rivers.
The Connecticut River has a fish consumption alert caused by PCB's and mercury found in the watershed. In addition, tributaries such as the Park River and Piper Brook have high bacteria counts and metals caused by Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO's) and urban runoff.
(Data Sources: City of Hartford Department of Housing and Community Development, CT Department of Public Health, CT Department of Environmental Protection, and the CT River Forum.)
- Goals for 2001
- Goals for 2000
- Goals for 1999
- Goals for 1998