Attendees at the Census 2020 Complete Count Committee for Strafford County meeting.
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Photo courtesy of the U.S. Census Bureau)
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During the week of Feb. 10, the Town of Durham installed an educational display on the banks of the Oyster River at Wagon Hill Farm. This display, designed by communications and outreach planner Shayna Sylvia and funded by the NH Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) Aquatic Resource Mitigation Program (ARM), details the recently completed living shoreline project at Wagon Hill. This effort seeks to combat erosion occurring from foot traffic, wave action, shade from trees, and a variety of other factors.
For those unfamiliar, a living shoreline "is a stabilization technique that utilizes a variety of structural and organic materials such as wetland plants, submerged aquatic vegetation, oyster reefs, coir fiber logs, sand fill, and stone."¹
A summary of the project in its entirety can be found on the educational kiosk. View the image of the kiosk
here
. View the digital version of the kiosk design
here
. Or go see it for yourself!
For those who would like to learn more about the project, a site tour is being planned for Spring 2020. Interested parties can join the
event email list
, and we will share information as it become available.
For more information on the project contact
Michael Lynch
, director of public works for the Town of Durham.
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1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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GIS planner, Jackson Rand, and data analyst Rachel Dewey, have been busy reorganizing our online mapping databases. This is in preparation for SRPC’s new website, in addition to creating a plan to better utilize our online resources.
SRPC's online ArcGIS platform, which previously housed a variety of transportation related maps, in addition to other regional mapping resources, has recently been cleared. This will allow staffers to better organize and display important maps online for easier access and use by partners and stakeholders.
Please be patient during this reconstruction process, and stay tuned for exciting outcomes and for new maps to be uploaded on our
ArcGIS platform
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Communications and outreach planner, Shayna Sylvia, and data analyst, Rachel Dewey, attended the 2020 Census Complete Count Committee for Strafford County's meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 11. The meeting, which was held at the Community Action Partnership of Strafford County (CAP), included a presentation from Nicole McKenzie, partnership specialist with the New York Census Center, Field Division. Nicole highlighted the importance of counting every person once, only once, and in the right place, before explaining the implications of the count for the next ten years. She shared that getting as close to an 100% count as possible is so important as lots of community programming is issued federal funds based on census data. Nicole also passed around
a fact sheet created by George Washington University
which shows this impact for the State of NH.
Following the presentation, attendees were placed in groups to work on strategies for engaging people about the Census, how to take it, and ways in which to convey the importance.
SRPC will continue to provide support as a Census 2020 partner and share information during this collection year. For those that don't know, the Census launches on Mar. 12 and the U.S. Census Bureau is still hiring for those looking for a part time job. Pay starts at ~$16/hr.
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