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The City of Port Angeles received a grant from the Washington Department of Ecology to provide no-charge, on-site advice to small businesses that generate dangerous wastes.

The goal of this grant funded program is to help Port Angeles businesses avoid polluting local waters, reduce the impacts of storm water pollution, and eliminate potential sources of toxic materials and dangerous waste.

David Freed, Pollution Prevention Specialist

David Freed is the City's new Pollution Prevention Specialist. He will also help businesses understand regulations about dangerous waste and implement pollution prevention practices. His position is 100% grant funded.

The $154,700 grant pays the whole cost of hiring a Pollution Prevention Specialist, who will help businesses address their dangerous waste issues beginning in March. The grant is funded through the end of June 2013.

As part of Ecology's Local Source Control Partnership, the City's specialist will have access to the resources and expertise of twenty five partner jurisdictions around Puget Sound and the Spokane River. The goal is to protect water quality and help businesses deal with pollution at its source, before it pollutes local waters.

POLLUTION PREVENTION FACTS & TIPS
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David Freed will help businesses prevent, control, and treat pollution before it can move off site. Freed has over ten years of experience providing natural resource technical assistance and public outreach to businesses and landowners of Clallam County.

For more information contact David Freed at either 360-417-4845 / 360-808-6930 or dfreed@cityofpa.us

Dept of Ecology Search for a Hazardous Waste (HW) Service Provider:
http://apps.ecy.wa.gov/hwsd/default.htm

Tips and suggestions for many industries can be found online at
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/hwtr/P2/ta.html .

Information about the Local Source Control Partnership can be found online at:
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/hwtr/lsp/index.html .

MORE ONLINE RESOURCES

The Pollution Prevention Roundtable Topic Hubs offer business-specific techniques, as well as articles on Pollution Prevention issues from a national network of non-profit technical assistance centers.
Pollution Prevention offers business-specific advice, from Aerospace to Woodworking, from Ecology's Hazardous Waste / Toxic Reduction Program.
Toxic Free Tips Public-oriented resources "for a safer and healthier home, school, workplace and community." Toxic Free Tips offers a popular shopper's guide, health links, and more.
The Washington Stormwater Center provides tools for stormwater management by supporting municipalities, stormwater permittees, and businesses in their efforts to control stormwater and protect water quality.
The Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center (PPRC) is Washington State's regional non-profit Pollution Prevention (P2) center for research and technical assistance.
The Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange is the national clearinghouse that coordinates work among regional P2 centers.
Design for the Environment from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), partners with industry leaders to solve source control problems.
Nonpoint Pollution This page from Ecology's Water Quality Program is about the prevention of polluted runoff.
Stormwater This page from Ecology's Water Quality Program provides regulations and technical assistance on all aspects of preventing stormwater pollution.

POLLUTION PREVENTION is reducing or eliminating waste at the source by modifying production processes, promoting the use of non-toxic or less-toxic substances, implementing conservation techniques, and re-using materials rather than putting them into the waste stream.