Voice of the Government

I took a field trip this week to spread the voice of the government. As I said last week, I had printed off, folded, and banded many informative pamphlets last week for the purpose of correcting some improper lawn grass dumping from a certain neighborhood. Curious as to why this was a big deal, I asked about it. I had thought that because it was just biological material to begin with, it would only benefit the streams that it was dumped into.

However, I was wrong-- this dumping results in the imbalance of water nutrients often leading to an overabundance of algae. In addition, lawn grass has the chance to carry fertilizers and weed sprays added to it, which is definitely not beneficial to the stream ecosystem. Now fully educated myself, my next job was to educate others. I spent one day of the week on a road trip to attach these pamphlets to doors of the area surrounding the incident stream. Now we can only hope that they get the message and keep the streams clear.

Otherwise, the rest of the week was very similar to the last. I continued to georeference the ".tiff" street light layout files into ArcGIS, and just kept chugging along. This is one of the larger projects that I have been given-- it will be a while longer until I am done because I can only chink a little bit of it off at a time, but don't worry my dear reader, I will find other things about my workplace to tell you about.

More Referencing

As the title suggests, these past 5 days have seen to more georeferencing, but I have also picked up a few more tricks. Not all of the ".tiff" files necessarily show the plat that they are referencing, so after some troubleshooting I found that I can also search the database by street name or intersection. This allows me to find some of the more tricky documents and really should allow me to find any of them if the more convenient plat searching function does not work.

In addition to this business, I closed off the week by folding some pamphlets that I will also distribute to parts of the city next week. Apparently a certain neighborhood has had some problems with dumping in a stream, so this pamphlet is essentially a specialized informative paper to educate the area that this is an issue with. Not quite sure how many houses this entails, but a road trip will be nice. My beloved reader, prepare for exciting tales next week.