While working in many areas of both city and state environmental and conservation departments since 1969, he is also passionate about lending his expertise to water projects in developing countries. Adamski's concern for the environment stems from his concern for people. One of his current projects at the DEP is the biosolids program, in which digested sewage sludge is converted to fertilizer and sent to agricultural areas in Texas, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida and Virginia. The program also produces compost from sludge and one of Adamski's goals is to utilize this in the city. We're not suggesting active recreation areas but there are a lot of gardens, malls and highway medians where we want to bring compost back.
Legislation is often the push needed to find innovative environmental solutions.
In fact, the biosolids program arose out of a 1988 federal law prohibiting the dumping of sewage in the oceans. Because of the legislation and the work that we've gone through we have a beneficial program that uses the biosolids. But initiatives sometimes precede legislation. A natural by-product of that is methane gas. The gas, now considered an alternative energy fuel, was burned to produce electricity to help run the plant.