Posts Tagged ‘water quality’
Plastic Bags & Storm Water
4.8.2022 – Albuquerque City Council has voted to override Mayor Tim Keller’s veto of their plastic bag ban repeal. Council members who voted to repeal the ordinance cited extra costs on both businesses and consumers, but environmental groups say it’s a step backwards. Environment correspondent Laura Paskus talks with a Bernalillo County official who explains…
Read MoreOur Land: Urban Flood Control
May 10, 2019 – On this month’s episode of Our Land, we visit with engineers from the Albuquerque Metropolitan Arroyo Flood Control Authority. AMAFCA was created in 1963 to protect life and property, and for decades it moved water as quickly as possible out of the city and into the Rio Grande. Since the 1980s,…
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