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Adopt a Hydrant

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Jonathan Howard
@staringispolite · Growth engineer & founder
Heard about this Code for America project through the TED radio hour podcast on Collaboration. http://www.npr.org/2013/10/04/19... The northeast has trouble keeping important things plowed during the winter, like fire hydrants. So someone hacked together a weekend project to let people "Adopt" a hydrant near them: meaning name it, pledge to take care of it,… See more
Erik Michaels-Ober
@sferik · Maker, Breaker
Hi all! I’m the “someone” who hacked together this product as a Code for America Fellow. As Jonathan mentioned, the code is all open source and was written to be flexible, so it can be used by different municipalities with different types of civic infrastructure they want to put up for adoption. For example, a fork of this project is now being used by the c… See more