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EPA Grants Available to Improve the Environment and Public Health in New England Communities
EPA is making grant money available for projects that will help reduce environmental risks for New England communities at risk, such as environmental justice areas, urban areas, sensitive populations, and/or those impacted by climate change or stormwater run-off. The Healthy Communities Grant Program is EPA New England’s main competitive grant program to work directly with communities to ...
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ATB has been awarded at the Amsterdam International Water Week for its innovation SEWTREE
Heavy rain, overheated cities in summer, air and water pollution - ATB has developed the SEWTREE for precisely these challenges. The SEWTREE is an externally planted column with a special filter medium that cleans water and actively removes pollutants from the air. "This innovation can be installed in cities in a very space-saving way and thus makes an immense contribution to ...
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EPA Issues Albuquerque-Area Permit to Protect Rio Grande River
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the Middle Rio Grande Watershed Based Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permit that establishes requirements to reduce pollution carried by stormwater run-off and restore portions of the Middle Rio Grande River that are too polluted. Stormwater run-off is water from precipitation that flows across the ground and pavement when ...
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EPA to Assist Buffalo Sewer Authority in Expanding Use of Green Infrastructure Projects to Focus on Reducing Stormwater Runoff from Vacant Lots
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will provide technical assistance to the Buffalo Sewer Authority to expand the use of green infrastructure to reduce water pollution and improve Buffalo’s resilience to the impacts of climate change. The EPA will assist Buffalo in assessing paved and unsightly vacant lots, which contribute to stormwater runoff and pollution of ...
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US EPA orders San Jose company to comply with stormwater discharge requirements
The US Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a San Jose, Calif. scrap material company to immediately comply with the Clean Water Act at two of its facilities. The EPA inspected American Metal and Iron’s 11665 Berryessa Rd. facility on Oct. 25 and Dec. 7, and its 1045 Commercial Ct. facility on Dec. 7. During the inspections, the EPA discovered that the Berryessa Road facility failed to ...
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Beachgoers Can Expect Good Conditions
Washington, D.C. - America's beach scorecard topped 95 percent during 2006, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's just-released Annual Beach Report. Of more than 676,000 beach days, fewer than five percent were restricted due to contamination-related closings. More than half of the actions lasted for two days or less. More than 3,700 beaches were monitored by 35 states and ...
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Solinst Canada introduces new conductivity datalogger
Solinst Canada Ltd. is pleased to announce the latest release in their datalogger series—the Model 3001 LTC Levelogger Edge. The LTC Levelogger Edge is a compact instrument that provides reliable datalogging of water level, temperature, and conductivity measurements. The LTC Levelogger Edge offers a number of upgraded features over previous LTC versions, including an 8-year battery life, ...
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EPA Approves Buffalo Sewer Authority’s Plan to Reduce Sewage and Water Pollution in Niagara River
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation have approved the Buffalo Sewer Authority’s plan to reduce the amount of sewage and stormwater run-off that flow from the city of Buffalo’s combined sewer system. Combined sewer systems, which carry sewage from buildings and stormwater from the streets, are overwhelmed during heavy ...
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EPA Grants to Help New York City Communities Address Local Environmental Challenges; Includes Air Sampling Around JFK Airport
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $84,000 to three New York City organizations working to address environmental contamination in their communities. The grants were awarded under the EPA’s Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, which supports and empowers communities working on solutions to local environmental and public health issues. “EPA’s ...
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Portsmouth N.H. scrap metal company faces fine for polluted water discharges
Stormwater monitoring by the property owner of Grimmel’s Portsmouth facility (Pease Development Authority) confirms stormwater discharges from Grimmel’s metal scrapyard operations contain metals, suspended solids and chemical oxygen demand which exceed permit benchmarks. Further, the stormwater discharges contain mercury and PCBs that cause or contribute to an exceedance of water ...
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EPA, DC showcase recovery act funded green roof (PA)
Federal and local officials celebrated today the completion of the third largest green roof in the District, a $1.1 million project funded in part by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Sitting atop the World Wildlife Fund headquarters in Northwest D.C., the 27,750 square feet of green roof will help reduce stormwater runoff to nearby Rock ...
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Rhode Island concrete manufacturer pays penalty for clean water violations (RI)
Subject to court approval, Cardi Materials, LLC of Warwick, R.I., will pay a $55,000 civil penalty and perform an additional project costing $168,500 to resolve numerous violations of the Clean Water Act at its Warwick concrete manufacturing facility. In addition to a financial penalty, the proposed settlement requires Cardi to eliminate all process water discharges from the facility. Process ...
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Northern Ohio Receives Four EPA Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure Grants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of four Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling more than $1.3 million in northern Ohio to fund green infrastructure projects to improve water quality in Lake Erie. Cameron Davis, Senior Advisor to the EPA Administrator, was joined at Lakewood Park to announce the projects by Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, Lakewood Mayor ...
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New Adelaide Bus Terminal Site Sets Standard During Construction
Major South Australian construction company, Hansen Yuncken and environmental organisation, KESAB (KEEP SOUTH AUSTRALIA BEAUTIFUL) have joined with key Adelaide City Council and industry stakeholders in a CLEAN SITE® environment partnership program at Adelaide’s new bus terminal construction project. The initiative leads the Australian building industry commitment to ensure best environmental ...
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Product Launch: Efficient Flow Regulation With Wareg 3.0
We can all see it, feel it, experience it – the climate changes are affecting us all. Regardless of where we reside, more frequent and higher levels of precipitation is something we have to get used to. And handle. We know that stormwater runoff in intensive storms can cause flooding. By utilizing effective flow regulation we know that flooding can be minimized and even mitigated. Our ...
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EPA solicits Arizona design firms for makeover of Phoenix’s Lower Grand Avenue
The firm selected will produce designs to improve the Lower Grand Avenue streetscape, making it more environmentally, pedestrian-, and bicycle-friendly, while maintaining the neighborhood's artistic character. The design team will explore options that use green infrastructure techniques suitable for arid climates to capture and treat stormwater runoff. Options might also include improvements to ...
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EPA Post-Construction Storm Water Runoff Workshop to be Held in Hilton Head, SC
EPA Region 4 is hosting a one-day workshop in Hilton Head on December 12, 2014 to discuss the use of green infrastructure and low impact development controls to manage post-construction stormwater runoff to maintain pre-development runoff conditions. The workshop will explain site design procedures, present examples and case studies, and discuss the costs and benefits of green infrastructure. ...
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Des Moines, Iowa, Selected for Green Design Assistance
EPA has selected Des Moines, Iowa, to receive technical assistance for green infrastructure design under its Greening America’s Capitals Program. The benefits for Iowa’s capital city will include wider sidewalks, narrower traffic lanes, better lighting, improved bus stop shelters, permeable pavement, and rain gardens that can minimize stormwater runoff. “This project will help ...
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Puerto Rico Developer to Pay $500,000 Penalty to Address Clean Water Act Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced that it has reached an agreement with F&R Contractors Corp. and F&R Contractors LLC (F&R) to settle the companies’ alleged violations of requirements to control pollution from stormwater discharges. The agreement requires F&R to pay a $500,000 penalty, establish new staffing positions to oversee a stormwater compliance ...
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New Jersey Developer to Pay Civil Penalty for Stormwater Violations and Preserve Wetlands
The Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice today announced that they have reached an agreement with Garden Homes and its affiliated companies to settle their alleged failure to control stormwater discharges. These failures potentially resulted in pollutant discharges to the Passaic, Hackensack, Rahway, Raritan, Saddle and Delaware River watersheds. The agreement requires ...
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