Concerned Gainesville residents trickled in to the Alachua County Health Department on Monday for an open house on the health impacts from the Koppers Superfund site, where full-scale remediation work is still several months away… Chad Smith, Gainesville Sun http://www.gainesville.com/article/20110829/ARTICLES/110829506
The Alachua County Health Department and the Florida Department of Health will be hosting an open house to answer questions about recently published health reports and to collect health concerns related to the Koppers Superfund Site. more info here
Superfund Art Project in coordination with the City of Gainesville’s Department of Cultural Affairs has been awarded a State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs grant. This grant will allow us to stage an exhibit of art that expresses the science and emotions of living with a superfund site.
We are providing a call to artists here: Region4 Call to Artists
We are also providing an Artist’s Workbook to help inform and guide the artists and their work. The workbook can be accessed here: Region4 Artist’s Workbook
All artists are invited to participate!
City Commission, Gainesville, Florida
July 21, 2011
Re: Thank You for Your Support
Region4: Transformation Through Imagination Art Exhibit
Thomas Center Galleries – March, 2012
Honorable Mayor and Commissioners,
As President of Protect Gainesville’s Citizens and Chair of the Superfund Art Project I want to thank each and everyone of you for helping us to move forward with this exhibit. It is planned for the Spring of 2012 and will begin at Gainesville’s own Thomas Center Gallery.
I also want to thank Mallory O’Connor and the Superfund Art Project Board of Directors for their creative spirit and diligent efforts in bringing forth this project. Thanks are due to Steve Phillips, Paul Volker, Fred Murry, Russ Blackburn, Michelle Park and Margie Allen for their wise counsel and indefatigable efforts on our behalf.
I am excited and convinced that each of you will be thrilled by and proud of the artists and the exhibit as we move forward with the restoration and reuse of the Koppers Superfund site. I am also convinced that this exhibit will prove to be a model for other communities around our nation that are similarly dealing with Superfund sites of their own.
Thank you for your support and I look forward to seeing you at the exhibit!
Kim A. Popejoy
President, Protect Gainesville’s Citizens
Chair, Superfund Art Project
Florida DOH Releases Four New Reports – Now Available
Report on additional off-site surface soil tests
Report reviewing cancer data
Final Report on Springstead and Hogtown creek sediments
Plus a Report on the safety of eating homegrown chicken eggs