Ecotoxic Patrol by Autonomous Blast Boat (EPA-B Boat) is a six-step science-communication to direct-action project by David Buckley Borden and collaborators that is designed to empower local citizens in the environmental stewardship of community waterways. The performance-based work is intended to inform, involve and enable citizens and communities to interact and influence authorities in local environmental protection.

The EPA-B Boat project is organized around six principal actions.

1. Collect water samples from public waterways with small autonomous patrol boats. *

2. Analyze water samples for ecotoxic pollutants.

3. Report all hazardous condition findings with signal flags at high-viz public river-access site. *

4. Put toxic offenders on blast by organizing conspicuous, public EPA-B boat rally and BBQ party on riverfront park.

5. Initiate river remediation effort through direct-action and/or legal remedy. *

6. Repeat for sustained citizen agency of ecological health of waterways. *

* Do not ask for permission; respectfully, yet assertively, proceed with collective well-informed action.

Collaborators: David Buckley Borden, Jenny Ginn, Isaac Martinotti, and Sabin Winkler.

The design development of EPA-B Boats project has been initially funded by a creative-practice research grant from the OSU Foundation’s Andrews Fund, the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscapes, and the sale of artwork on this website.