Water and Sanitation – Heroes At Work in the Mud Can you be called a hero if you just do your job? Workers who respond to main line water breaks are heroic because water shoots out of these pipes at up to 10,000 gallons per minute, threatening anyone or anything nearby with submersion or ground…
EYE ON THE ENVIRONMENT | NEW REPORTS SHOW CHANGE OF RECYCLING FOCUS Aug 4, 2021 | David Goldstein by David Goldstein, VCPWA, IWMD Last Monday (Aug. 2, 2021) was the deadline for every city and county in California to send an annual report to the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) describing and…
A community meeting has been setup for the SCR1- NOP on Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 6:00p.m..
First Major Component of Matilija Dam Removal Underway with Construction of Santa Ana Blvd. Bridge June 15, 2021 Completion of the project will create a wider channel and replace an existing bridge, allowing future removal of the Matilija Dam VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. – The Ventura County Public Works Agency (VCPWA) commemorated the start of the Santa…
Watershed Protection seeks your input for the SANTA CLARA RIVER LEVEE (SCR-1) Improvement Project EIR by July 27th 2021.
Eco-tip: Sunflowers at Museum of Ventura County bring message of beauty from compost David Goldstein Special to Ventura County Star Local artist Paul Lindhard usually works with stone and produces installations on a monumental scale, but his latest vision, coming into formation during the next few weeks at the Museum of Ventura County, involves the…
Eco-tip: Students can dig into Public Works Week with tons of online material by David Goldstein, PWA – IWMD Special to Ventura County Star This week is Public Works Week, and the American Public Works Association’s 2021 theme, “Stronger Together,” fits well with the way local educators are working. Despite the pandemic, they are collaborating…
Eco-tip: Ventura County compost competition rewards and educates David Goldstein Special to Ventura County Star A new, local environmental group is organizing a competition to promote composting and hoping the competition will become an annual event. The Ventura County Compost Network, a group of local commercial composting businesses, gardening stores, nonprofits, farmers and others, recently…
EYE ON THE ENVIRONMENT | COMPOST HAPPENS Apr 14, 2021 | David Goldstein by David Goldstein, VCPWA, IWMD “Compost happens” is the environmental twist on a more famous, but less positive aphorism about life. Actually, compost does not happen when we put yard clippings and food waste in a landfill. Modern landfills minimize biodegradation to…
Bilingual report — Community Feedback Helps Ventura County Public Works Agency Receive First Statewide Grant for Pedestrian Improvement Project by Community Contributor • April 15, 2021 VCPWA receives over six million dollars in state funding for the El Rio Pedestrian Improvement and Safe Routes to School Project VENTURA COUNTY — Ventura County Public Works Agency’s…