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EPA issues permit associated with aquifer pump test at weld county (Colo.) uranium site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an injection well permit to Powertech, (USA) Inc. that will enable the company to re-inject groundwater from an aquifer pump test at the proposed Centennial uranium site in Weld County, Colorado. This Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class V permit does not allow any uranium recovery activity at the site. The permitted activity is limited ...
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EPA issues new draft permit associated with aquifer pump test at weld county (Colo.) Uranium site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has revised and reissued a permit authorizing Powertech, USA, to re-inject water as part of an aquifer pump test at the proposed Centennial uranium recovery site in Weld County, Colo. The new draft Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class V permit includes a specific pressure requirement for re-injection that was inadvertently not included in a ...
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EPA to revise permit associated with aquifer pump test at Weld County (Colo.) uranium site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will revise and reissue a permit authorizing Powertech, USA, to re-inject water as part of an aquifer pump test at the proposed Centennial uranium recovery site in Weld County, Colo. The new draft Underground Injection Control (UIC) Class V permit will include a specific water pressure requirement for reinjection that was inadvertently not included ...
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Groundwater threat to rivers worse than suspected
In an address to the Groundwater 2010 Conference in Canberra, CSIRO Water for a Healthy Country Flagship scientist, Dr David Rassam, said land-use practices that reduce groundwater recharge into rivers and streams could significantly reduce low flows in nearby rivers and streams. “Many rivers are highly dependent on ‘base-flow’ from groundwater to keep running through dry times ...
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Newly Designed 3.0 inch Javelin NMR probe delivered to USGS New York Water Science Center
Vista Clara has delivered a Javelin NMR logging system to the New York Water Science Center in the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) located in Coram, NY. This system featured a custom-designed 3.0-inch diameter logging probe optimized for use in the 4-inch Schedule 80 PVC-cased monitoring wells that will be investigated with this ...
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Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton will auctioneer the largest effluent water auction in the United States
Prescott Valley, Ariz. – Contributing to the market development of reused water, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton will moderate the Town of Prescott Valley’s Effluent Water Auction, Nov. 1-3, in the Town Chambers of Prescott Valley, Ariz. The auction for 2,724 acre feet of effluent water* will be the largest water auction and first large-scale sale of effluent water in the ...
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Indian arsenic clean-up `working well`
A new chemical-free method to remove arsenic from water is working well in pilot plants in India, scientists report. The method, developed by a team of European and Indian scientists, was tested in six plants set up to supply safe arsenic-free water to Kasimpore village in India's West Bengal state, one of the most arsenic-contaminated sites in the world. An estimated 140 million people in ...
By SciDev.Net
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Studies reveal why drinking water wells are vulnerable to contamination
New USGS groundwater studies explain what, when, and how contaminants may reach public-supply wells. All wells are not equally vulnerable to contamination because of differences in three factors: the general chemistry of the aquifer, groundwater age, and direct paths within aquifer systems that allow water and contaminants to reach a well. More than 100 million people in the United States ...
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Solinst Canada Introduces Water Level DrawDown Meter
Solinst Canada Ltd. is pleased to announce the latest addition to their Level Measurement Devices—the Model 101D Water Level DrawDown Meter. The 101D Water Level DrawDown Meter indicates static water level, with a second function to monitor falling hydraulic head. In water level mode, the Model 101D Water Level DrawDown Meter allows accurate depth to water measurements in wells, ...
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Groundwater availability detailed in California`s Central Valley
A new, three-dimensional water-modeling tool provides a detailed picture of how water flows below ground and how it relates to surface-water in rivers and canals in California’s Central Valley. The Central Valley Hydrologic Model, developed by scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, is available for use by water managers and other agencies. The model was designed to help resource agencies ...
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Saur wins a new contract to operate Paphos wastewater treatment plant and establishes durably its presence in Cyprus
The Sewerage Board of Paphos - represented by Mr Phedon Phedonos, Mayor of Paphos - has awarded, following an international tender, the contract to operate the wastewater treatment plant in Paphos (Republic of Cyprus) to the Saur - Iacovou consortium for 8 years. The contract is worth €14.6 million. The site is equipped with technologies allowing the reuse of treated wastewater and the ...
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Study Assesses Threats to Groundwater Availability and Sustainability in Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain
Scientists Look at Issue from Long Island to North Carolina Threats to groundwater availability and sustainability in the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain are dependent to a large degree by the type of aquifers used for water supply, according to a new regional assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey. The water challenges faced in the highly populated area, which ranges from Long Island, New ...
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Wetland Project in Oman recognized with “Award of Excellence in Climate Action”
During the Qatar Sustainability Summit 2019, the Omani companies BAUER Nimr LLC and Petroleum Development Oman received the prestigious “Award for Excellence in Climate Action” marking their impressive effort to make the oil & gas sector green, while contributing to significant Co2 emission reductions. The award was handed over by Dr. Yousef Mohamed AlHorr, Founding Chairman of ...
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Rivers in North Carolina, Georgia at Record Lows
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - Despite some rainfall at the end of the month, streamflows during May in North Carolina were at or near record low levels, particularly in the western part of the state, according to scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, USGS. May was a dry month in neighboring Georgia bringing many of the state's rivers and streams to their lowest levels ever recorded for the ...
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High arsenic levels in Asian rice could be reduced through improved irrigation practices
High levels of arsenic in rice could be reduced by applying improved irrigation management practices in Asia, FAO says in a new report entitled Remediation of Arsenic for Agriculture Sustainability, Food Security and Health in Bangladesh. Studies have shown that high concentrations of arsenic in soil and irrigation water often lead to high levels of arsenic in crops and are posing an increased ...
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Arsenic: when will the clean water start flowing?
Razia Begum has been asking the same question for two years now: 'Please will someone fix my arsenic filter?' She lives in Nagda, a village in one of the areas of Bangladesh most severely contaminated by arsenic in drinking water — although at first glance there is nothing about the village's lush paddy fields to suggest anything dangerous. Razia's family, like many thousands of others in such ...
By SciDev.Net
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Satellite Study Reveals Parched U.S. West Using Up Underground Water
A new study by NASA and University of California, Irvine, scientists finds more than 75 percent of the water loss in the drought-stricken Colorado River Basin since late 2004 came from underground resources. The extent of groundwater loss may pose a greater threat to the water supply of the western United States than previously thought. This study is the first to quantify the amount that ...
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Solving history’s ‘largest mass poisoning’
Researchers in MIT’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, world health agencies and the Bangladeshi government for nearly 30 years. The research suggests that human alteration to the landscape, the construction of villages with ...
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NASA discovers new way to monitor underground water loss
Researchers have untangled puzzling patterns of sinking and rising land to pin down the underground locations where water is being pumped for irrigation. Scientists have produced a new method that holds the promise of improving groundwater management – critical to both life and agriculture in dry regions. The method sorts out how much underground water loss comes from aquifers ...
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Troubled Water
Glanris’ CEO Bryan Eagle gives his opinion on the need to invest in the US’ water infrastructure after COVID-19, through the lens of Seth Siegel’s new book, Troubled Water. IIn early 2018, as a new water investor with virtually no water industry experience, I was determined to read everything I could about the industry. One of the first books I read was Seth Siegel's book Let ...
By Glanris
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