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Reduce smog by 3-17 percent in a very cheap, easy fashion
I thought your organization may find this of interest as I see many go green organizations on tv and I found this a very, very cheap and extremely effective way to improve our world...
Sincerely,
Mark P. Campolito 6137 Perimeter Lakes Drive Dublin, Ohio 43017 614 932-0395 614 209-7245
I want to forward this story to your attention.
I had the director of one of Columbus ’ Ohio ’s homeless shelters stop by for a brief presentation to an organization I belong to. During her presentation, she advised that roughly 40% of their residents were of the average age of 9. I was amazed as I was not aware of this fact. Later that night, I had trouble with the idea of going to sleep now knowing about all these children at our local homeless shelter. I sent of a fax the mayor of Columbus ’s office to have some improvement done to the neighbor so the children would have a safer place to reside. The mayor’s office was so quick to respond to increasing the light, replacing light bulbs in the street light, increasing police patrols in the area as was amazed by his offices efficiency. I went on to request improvements to areas around hospitals, schools and such. His office always responded within 3-10 days.
On one of my last request (in an effort to make the roads in Columbus safer for drivers, I stumbled upon, largely due to my initial involvement without homeless shelter, a very interesting find you office may find of interest. My request involved having the mediums and side of roads on our outer belt and inner city highway stretches swept of gravel and debris so if some had to pull over the area would be safer. The first time a saw the results was after work one day when I was completely amazed that the mayor’s office had all the roads of 270, 71 and 315 swept as well as the sides of the roads. The first sight that amazed me was a patrol car on the side of the road on a nice safe medium (not like the gravel mediums you see an T.V. that a patrol car films an officer almost getting hit by someone). I thought it should have occurred to me that the law enforcement officers would also benefit from this improvement as well as our local citizens. But the item that I have observed over the next week to several months is possibly the biggest benefit that never occurred to me.
Now when cars drive on our roads, there is quite a noticeable reduction in the pollutants trapped in our air. It seems the rumble of 30,000 to 60,000 cars day over a road with dirt and gravel on the side made a dirt/car fume mix that stayed within 300-600 feet to the surface of our city. Now, without this dirt base to mix with the exhaust fumes of the cars (it seems hot car exhaust bonds with the dirt debris, possibly on a molecular level) there is very quite a noticeable reduction in the smog stuck in our air. When it rains now, the buildings, roads, bridges have a fighting chance to be washed down by Mother Nature. It’s amazing. There is now a much cleaner bloom of air that rising when the cars drive down our interstates. The buildings, roads and bridges of pretty much all of the Columbus metropolitan area are now very much cleaner. The visual impact of this improvement on the Columbus Metropolitan area alone makes of the best looking cities in the nation. I cannot even begin to imagine the impact on the value of our buildings or, more importantly, the improvement in health for our citizens.
In summary, I feel this action could reduce the overall smog in each worlds major cites 3-20 percent minimum (talk about an in-expensive way to "Go Green"). Please handle as an “anonymous” submission with the hopes that this story will help clean the cities and sky’s of our world.
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Reduce smog by 3-17 percent in a very cheap, easy fashion
I thought your organization may find this of interest as I see many go green organizations on tv and I found this a very, very cheap and extremely effective way to improve our world...
Sincerely,
Mark P. Campolito
6137 Perimeter Lakes Drive
Dublin, Ohio 43017
614 932-0395
614 209-7245
I want to forward this story to your attention.
I had the director of one of Columbus ’ Ohio ’s homeless shelters stop by for a brief presentation to an organization I belong to. During her presentation, she advised that roughly 40% of their residents were of the average age of 9. I was amazed as I was not aware of this fact. Later that night, I had trouble with the idea of going to sleep now knowing about all these children at our local homeless shelter. I sent of a fax the mayor of Columbus ’s office to have some improvement done to the neighbor so the children would have a safer place to reside. The mayor’s office was so quick to respond to increasing the light, replacing light bulbs in the street light, increasing police patrols in the area as was amazed by his offices efficiency. I went on to request improvements to areas around hospitals, schools and such. His office always responded within 3-10 days.
On one of my last request (in an effort to make the roads in Columbus safer for drivers, I stumbled upon, largely due to my initial involvement without homeless shelter, a very interesting find you office may find of interest. My request involved having the mediums and side of roads on our outer belt and inner city highway stretches swept of gravel and debris so if some had to pull over the area would be safer. The first time a saw the results was after work one day when I was completely amazed that the mayor’s office had all the roads of 270, 71 and 315 swept as well as the sides of the roads. The first sight that amazed me was a patrol car on the side of the road on a nice safe medium (not like the gravel mediums you see an T.V. that a patrol car films an officer almost getting hit by someone). I thought it should have occurred to me that the law enforcement officers would also benefit from this improvement as well as our local citizens. But the item that I have observed over the next week to several months is possibly the biggest benefit that never occurred to me.
Now when cars drive on our roads, there is quite a noticeable reduction in the pollutants trapped in our air. It seems the rumble of 30,000 to 60,000 cars day over a road with dirt and gravel on the side made a dirt/car fume mix that stayed within 300-600 feet to the surface of our city. Now, without this dirt base to mix with the exhaust fumes of the cars (it seems hot car exhaust bonds with the dirt debris, possibly on a molecular level) there is very quite a noticeable reduction in the smog stuck in our air. When it rains now, the buildings, roads, bridges have a fighting chance to be washed down by Mother Nature. It’s amazing. There is now a much cleaner bloom of air that rising when the cars drive down our interstates. The buildings, roads and bridges of pretty much all of the Columbus metropolitan area are now very much cleaner. The visual impact of this improvement on the Columbus Metropolitan area alone makes of the best looking cities in the nation. I cannot even begin to imagine the impact on the value of our buildings or, more importantly, the improvement in health for our citizens.
In summary, I feel this action could reduce the overall smog in each worlds major cites 3-20 percent minimum (talk about an in-expensive way to "Go Green"). Please handle as an “anonymous” submission with the hopes that this story will help clean the cities and sky’s of our world.
Sincerely,
Mark P. Campolito
6137 Perimeter Lakes Drive
Dublin, Ohio 43017
USA
614 932-0395
614 209-7245
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