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Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability Records, 1990-2008

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Collection Overview

Title: Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability Records, 1990-2008

ID: RG 226

Primary Creator: Oregon State University. Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability

Extent: 26.8 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

Abstract

The Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability (CWESt) Records document interdisciplinary research, education, and technology transfer programs in the areas of sustainability, water resources, and environmental cleanup and include administrative records, grant proposals, research data, survey materials, and reports.

Scope and Content Notes

The Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability (CWESt) Records consist of materials generated by the Center as as well as its predecessor programs, the Center for Analysis of Environmental Change (CAEC) and the Oregon Water Resources Research Institute (OWRRI). The records document strategic planning, conference participation, the organization of workshops, research project coordination, and evaluation of the InterACTION Project and include correspondence, grant proposals, staff meeting minutes, newsletters, newspaper clippings, photographs, publications, reports, research data, and survey materials.

The bulk of the records are project files of the Technical Outreach Service for Communities (TOSC) and Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Communities programs. These files reflect work with communities in Oregon, Alaska, Idaho, Washington, California, Arizona, and the Northern Mariana Islands to provide technical assistance in redevelopment of former industrialized landscapes and the cleanup of areas contaminated by hazardous substances. The project files include correspondence, photographs, reports, and survey materials.

An addition to the Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability Records (Accession 2009:015) consists of materials generated and collected by the Technical Outreach Service for Communities (TOSC) and Technical Assistance to Brownfields (TAB) Communities Programs. Documenting several TOSC-TAB projects in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona where assistance was requested in the re-development and cleaning of contaminated properties, this transfer is primarily made up of reports and correspondence. The following sites are represented in these records: Univar-USA facilities (Los Angeles and Commerce, California); Quemetco Inc. facility (City of Industry, California); Eugene Railyard (Oregon); Remco Hydraulics Facility (Willits, California); Landsburg Mine site (Ravensdale, Washington); U.S. Air Force Plant 42 (Palmdale, California); Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine (Clear Lake, California); North Island Naval Air Station (Coronado, California); BNSF Railyard (Skykomish, Washington); Marine Corps Air Station (Tustin, California); Ford Ord (California); and South Phoenix, Arizona. Other records included in this transfer pertain to national TOSC-TAB conferences, the 2005 Oregon Brownfields Conference, the 2003 annual report for the Hazardous Substance Research Center-Western Region, and an Oregon DEQ brownfields needs assessment survey.

Biographical / Historical Notes

The Center for Water and Environmental Sustanability (CWESt) was established in 2000 through the merger of the Center for Analysis of Environmental Change (CAEC) and the Oregon Water Resources Research Institute (OWRRI) at Oregon State University. CWESt operated as a research center in support of interdisciplinary research, education, and technology transfer in the areas of sustainability, water resources, and environmental cleanup. Sustainability activities included the adoption of sustainable practices on campus and the organization and sponsorship of workshops and symposia to OSU. Environmental cleanup activities were conducted through the Technical Outreach Service for Communities (TOSC) and Technical Assistance to Brownfields Communities (TAB)programs as the Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center (WRHSRC)

CWESt was closed in August 2005 and its functions were reorgnized into three other centers. The water resources program was incorporated into the Institute for Water and Watersheds; sustainability activites were assumed by OSU's Institute for Natural Resources; and the environmental cleanup programs continued as a function of a separate Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center with the College of Engineering.

The InterACTION Project operated at Oregon State University from 1994 to 2002 as a program of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Food Systems Professions Education (FSPE) Initiative. The InterACTION Project organized workshops and conferences to promote conversational skills and teambuilding within institutions.

Administrative Information

More Extent Information: 27 boxes

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: Records transferred from the Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability in 2005.

Related Materials: The InterACTION Project Records (RG 222) provide detailed documentation of that program. Materials pertaining to the Oregon Water Resources Research Institute, as well as other OSU research centers, are available in the Research Office Records (RG 170).

Preferred Citation: Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability Records (RG 226), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Processing Information: This collection is not fully processed; this guide is preliminary.

Other URL: A preliminary container list was created for this collection on or before November 14, 2014.

Creators

Oregon State University. Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability
Center for Analysis of Environmental Change (U.S.)
Oregon State University. Water Resources Research Institute

People, Places, and Topics

Brownfields--United States.
Groundwater--Pollution.
Hazardous waste site remediation--United States.
History of Science
Natural Resources
Oregon State University--Research.
Oregon State University. Center for Water and Environmental Sustainability
Oregon State University. InterACTION Project
Research institutes--Oregon.
University History
Water--Oregon.
Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center (U.S.)

Forms of Material

Photographic prints.


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