What happens with information provided by the community about sources of environmental pollution?
Each piece of information is documented by topic, location, source of information (e.g., letter, news clipping), and whether the information is confidential. The information then is categorized as: potentially valuable and slated to investigate further for possible dataset acquisition, potentially useful for validating current LI GIS datasets, potentially useful for researchers doing focused studies, and level of detail is too limited to be useful. A database with all four categories of information is available to researchers who are using the LI GIS. Researchers will be cautioned that the information has not been verified and, therefore, may not be accurate. The information will not be available on the public Web site for this reason.
