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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Excavation Planned For San Jose Chinatown

For years, the site of an early Chinatown in San Jose lay covered under an asphalt at the city's corporation work area, but on March 15 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. the public has been invited to this archaeological excavation open house for the site at Taylor between Sixth and Seventh streets.

Archaeologists will unearth areas of the site in search of clues of daily life in the settlement known as Heinlenville, which was home to 2,000 Chinese immigrants from 1887 to the 1930s. San Jose's first Chinatown, that was located at the Market and San Fernando streets, was ruined by fire in 1887. A German immigrant, John Heinlein; helped the Chinese merchants to move on land he owned at Sixth and Taylor Streets.

"This archaeological excavation will offer the community an opportunity to learn more about Heinlenville, the last of San Jose's historic Chinatowns, and the history of the Chinese in our community," said Mayor Chuck Reed. Some of the planned activities will include limited guided tours, displays of artifacts, presentations from local historians and archaeologists and an opportunity to see the crew members at work. Tours of the excavation area and field laboratory and will be conducted hourly.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Fishes to Help Clear Algal Lake Pollution in China

NANJING - The Taihu Fishery Administration will spend 100 million whitebait germ cells into China's Taihu Lake, the third largest freshwater body that suffered algae outbreak last year, as one of the measures to clean the lake due to algal pollution. The move earlier this week came after the neighboring Anhui Province put 1.6 million fish into the fifth largest body of freshwater, or Chaohu Lake, which also faces a threat from algae.

These germ cells come from Mongolia Autonomous Region, so as to avoid inbreeding, an administration spokesman said. The school of fish is expected to curb the blue algae pollution as they live on plankton, including algae and protozoan. Excess of blue-green algae removes oxygen from the water, killing fish and other aquatic life, which then decay and release toxin. The output of whitebait, a small sprat famous for its fresh and tender meat, in Taihu stood at 400 tons in recent years, compared with the record of 2,000 tons. From June to August last year, the nutrient run-offs caused blue-green algae to bloom in lakes such as Taihu, Chaohu and Dianchi, endangered water supply in nearby cities and posed a great threat to aquatic life.

The algae outbreak in areas of Taihu provided an alert at the end of May as it rendered tap water undrinkable for about 10 days for more than one million residents in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. The Chinese government has set a timetable for control of the country's pollution-plagued lakes, aiming to restore them to their original state by 2030.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

Residents Urge Algae Clearing on Lake McKusick

The City of Stillwater has paid thousands of dollars to remove the algae growth in Lake McKusick and Long lakes. However the process of clearing is considered to be a temporary measure to remove the massive growth of algae, which is due to increasing level of phosphorus. Bruce Werre from the McKusick Lake Water Association said that the city needs to harvest the lake continuously to keep the algae levels down. According to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the intensive algae growth is due to the presence of excessive nutrients or higher levels of phosphorus usually created by water runoff. Now the city is ready to spend $25,000 which will involve algae harvesting, lake monitoring and other initiatives, as requested by the residents.

Monday, December 31, 2007

Land Clearing for Bui Dam Project

President Kufuor detonated an explosive to start the construction of Bui Irrigation project. Local laborers and contractors have begun the land clearing for the Bui Dam. Sino Hydro Company Limited of China is executing the project. Now workers have started to carry out geological surveys for rock and soil testing as the part of this project. The company has also recruited few local women to help with household chores like preparing food and washing clothes. It is estimated that the construction phase of this project will provide direct employment for about three thousand locals out of the project force of 3,400.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Land clearing contributing to climate change?

A researcher based in Queensland says, land clearing and native vegetation management are as vital as greenhouse gases when considering the climate change. According to Dr. McAlpine from the University of Queensland's says, what is happening to the land is closely associated to changes in the climate.

"We need to recognize the land surface and how we manage the land has a strong feedback on the climate and that's going to become even more important as our climate changes," he said.

"I'm not saying that land clearing is the only factor impacting climate but we have a strong interaction between the greenhouse gas effect and the changes in the land surface."

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Iran to carry on Burnt City land clearing

Iran would start the 11th season of archeological land clearing and excavations in the south-eastern historical city of 'Shahr-e Sookhteh', The Burnt City. "The area has been under steady study and the findings of last excavations would be published in a book," said Dr. Mansour Sajjadi, head of the Shahr-e Sookhteh excavation team.

Several experts comprising industrial researchers from Italy and France are to lend a hand with Iranian archeologists on the project, which would kick off during November 2007.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Land-clearing project begins at Carmel

Carmel city is getting closer to building a water handling plant on land. After a yearlong permissible battle over the land on the southeast corner of 106th Street and Gray Road, city and business bureaucrats agreed last week to permit Carmel to build the facility, while the sand and gravel mining operation continues underneath.

In September 2006, Carmel made a bid to the property owner to buy 30 acres to build a treatment plant. But the company didn't feel like give up the land or the mining operation underneath it. Last week, the parties approved a partial agreement. The price of the land remains disturbed, though. The city's present offer is $640,000 for 20 acres.