Description

The Mount Holly Environmental Advisory Committee’s responsibilities includes:

• Research, compile and direct studies, including environmental resource inventories, tree inventories, watershed protection studies, and conservation easement inventories;
• Review development proposals and advise Council and/or Land Use Board to make certain all State and Local environmental concerns are addressed;
• Inventory, plan and preserve open space;
• Assess vacant or underutilized land for possible Brownfields applicability;
• Assist Code Enforcement for environmental compliance issues;
• Inform residents through educational programs, displays, publications and meetings;
• Work to address regional and state-wide environmental problems;
• Obtain grant funding for a variety of local hands-on projects.

Links below detail many of the projects that the Committee has undertaken.