Symposium on Design and Construction Issues at Hazardous Waste SitesDCHWS East Spring 2023 Symposium is planned to be an in-person event!We launched the DCHWS website (dchws.org) to include information about the East, West, and Virtual Symposiums, and the Webinar Series. Ongoing updates will be posted on the DCHWS website. If you have questions, please email east@dchws.org.Summary of EventThe applications of engineering and science associated with cleaning up hazardous waste sites continue to evolve rapidly. Our goal is to facilitate an interactive engagement between professionals from the government and the private sector related to relevant and topical issues affecting our field.

Transforming Justice: The Juxtaposition of Criminal Justice Reform and Public SafetyIn its fourth year, the Transforming Justice Conference will focus on the Juxtaposition of Criminal Justice Reform and Public Safety. The city of Philadelphia is facing a crisis of extraordinary proportions with the rise in violent crime, particularly gun violence; while it wrestles with reforming a systemically flawed criminal justice system. In our third year, we will explore how we reconcile these coexisting conditions.

Join your fellow SRG staff and your fellow members for this meaningful tour.Join your fellow SRG staff and your fellow members for this informative and meaningful tour of the Historic Fairmount Waterworks and their POOL exhibit-A Social History of Segregation. POOL helps to illuminate a little-known history of segregated swimming in America and its connection to present-day drowning issues affecting Black communities. Weaving together history, art, storytelling, scholarship and place-based learning, this multi-disciplinary work explores the role of public pools in our communities with the goal of deepening understanding of the connection between water, social justice and public health.

Join Making Worlds and The Autonomous South Philly Cinema Association for a benefit screening of Riotsville, USA for #StopCopCItyThe fight in Atlanta against “Cop City” is heating up. The Autonomous South Philly Cinema Association is hosting a benefit screening of Riotsville, USA (2022, 91 mins) to raise funds for mounting legal expenses. Riotsville, USA takes its name from the mock cities built by the U.S. government in the late 1960s to train police and military in repressive techniques to throttle uprisings, much as Cop City hopes to do — unless the struggle against it is victorious.