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About a thousand years ago, the Rio Grande flowed between Second and Twelfth Streets.

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The Sandia Mountains encompass four different life zones.

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The edge of the east mesa is at Central Avenue and Yale Boulevard.

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Several hundred thousand years ago, the east and west mesas formed a broad plain through which the Rio Grande flowed about 250 feet or 24 meters higher than its present level.

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Energy & Pollution

Environmental Justice

by Dolores S. Herrera with material from the SouthWest Organizing Project

Hazardous Waste

by Milo Myers

Noise

by Richard Mitzelfelt

Occupational Health

by Nina Wallerstein

Solid Waste Management

by Jennie V. Chavez and Angela Alberti

Visual Pollution

by Madeline Dunn, updated by Tito Montoya and Bob White

Air Quality

by Alana Eager

Energy Resources and Conservation

by John Liebendorfer