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EPA Grant Project in Elkhart County Enabled By Undoing ‘Upgrades’
by Daneille Clark on Aug 13, 2009
Good stories often contain an embedded lesson such as the old adage ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’. Though we may not know the author of this sage advice, proof of its wisdom lies in this story of a federal grant project in Elkhart County, Indiana. The tuition for this particular lesson was paid in the form of wasted tax payer money and an entire year lost waiting on failed attempts to replace an existing system that was already working fine. Most good stories have a happy ending such as ‘the lost dog comes home’ or ‘the princess finds her mojo’. Despite the wasted time and money in this story it does have a happy ending. Several years ago Elkhart County in northern Indiana was awarded a federal grant to develop a brownfield inventory tool as part of the EPA Brownfield Assessment Grant program. One of the main objectives of the grant program was to link previously unconnected information in an easy-to-access single source for finding and managing important...Read More >>
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