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New Orleans EMPACT Project
EMPACT - Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking
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Photo 9: George Arcement, associate district chief of the U.S. Geological Survey out of Baton Rouge, La., holds the monitor as he discusses with Marnie Winter various things the monitor will check. The monitor will check for dissolved oxygen, temperature, turbidity, suspended sediments, salinity, and water level. All indicate the health of the marsh. Members of U.S.G.S. will actually install the monitor on the Lake Salvador platform in what is truly a joint project that illustrates "better government." State, local, and federal government, as well as academia are all players in this project and include the Gulf of Mexico Program (underwritten by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Jefferson Parish, the U.S.G.S., the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, and Louisiana State University.
