What's up with that?
Friday, March 28, 2008
Those shiny steel discs that look like scattered DVDs aren’t as random as they may appear. They were carefully designed to make Baton Rougeans stop throwing trash—or worse, pouring used motor oil—into storm drains.
LSU landscape architecture students fanned out across downtown and affixed nearly 500 of the steel pollution deterrent discs near storm drains using enviro-friendly industrial adhesive.
The students worked with the local chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and coordinated their effort with the federal Environmental Protection Agency, the state Department of Environmental Quality and the parish Department of Public Works. Baton Rouge’s discs are different from others the EPA uses across the United States, which read “drains to river” and feature a generic fish.
Local landscape architect Dana Brown, president-elect of the local ASLA chapter, organized the effort.
“The students wanted to do it,” she says. “The EPA has tagged most of the water bodies in East Baton Rouge and Louisiana as ‘impaired,’ meaning not safe for swimming and not fishable. That’s a problem.”
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