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Private U.S. Drinking Water Wells Contaminated with Arsenic and Other Harmful Elements
Geologists with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently discovered that 13 percent of untreated drinking water contains at least one potentially dangerous element at a concentration exceeding federal regulations or guidelines, reports Scientific American. Researchers checked private wells for 24 trace elements and found that they taint more wells than other pollutants, such as pesticides and ...
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EPA orders Dona Ana county and Las Cruces to clean drinking water aquifer
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued an order to Doña Ana County and the City of Las Cruces to clean a contaminated ground water aquifer under the city. The aquifer has been used by the City of Las Cruces for drinking water and poses an imminent and substantial danger to anyone who drinks from it. The city and county will be required to build a system that will ...
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EPA seeks input on the development of drinking water perchlorate regulation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is inviting small businesses, governments, and not-for-profit organizations to participate as small entity representatives (SERs) for a small business advocacy review (SBAR) Panel. This panel will focus on the agency’s development of a rule that proposes to regulate the amount of perchlorate, a potentially harmful chemical, in drinking water. ...
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EPA Transfers Operations of Whittier Narrows Treatment Plant to State of California
Today, responsibility for operation and maintenance of the groundwater treatment system at the Whittier Narrows Operable Unit (OU) was transferred from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC). The Whittier Narrows OU encompasses approximately four square miles in the southern portion of the San Gabriel Valley Area 1 Superfund ...
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EPA Awards $5 Million in Safe Drinking Water Grants
Washington, D.C. - Today 10 universities received grants from EPA for research to develop better methods for detecting harmful organisms in drinking water, including viruses, bacteria and protozoa. The grants, awarded through EPA's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) research grants program, are aimed at ensuring that the United States has the safest drinking water in the world. 'These five ...
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Resources to Help Prevent Legionnaires’ Disease and Pontiac Fever in Puerto Rico
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes Legionnaires’ disease as a serious type of pneumonia caused by a type of bacteria known as Legionella. The bacteria can also cause Pontiac fever, a less serious illness. While the bacteria can be found naturally in freshwater environments, it becomes a health concern if it grows and spreads in man-made water systems. This is ...
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$31m plan proposed to clean up groundwater at Moses Lake, Washington
A comprehensive clean-up plan for the trichloroethylene (TCE)-contaminated groundwater at the Moses Lake Wellfield Contamination Superfund site has been issued for public review by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The site is located just north of Moses Lake and includes the Grant County Airport, the former Larson Air Force Base, and areas south of the airport. “This cleanup plan ...
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EPA terminates negotiations with Dow Chemical on river clean-ups
US Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has stopped its negotiations with Dow Chemical aimed at a settlement to conduct a study and interim cleanup actions for dioxin contamination in the Tittabawassee River system. 'EPA does not believe that the deal Dow is offering goes far enough,' said Ralph Dollhopf, Associate Director for the Superfund Division of EPA's Regional Office in Chicago. ...
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DuPont Agrees to Keep Teflon Chemical Out of Water
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, November 21, 2006 (ENS) - E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. has signed an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) setting a lowered interim screening level for perfluorooctanoic acid in drinking water sources around the DuPont Washington Works in West Virginia. The EPA is establishing a much lower permissible level of of 0.50 parts per billion, ...
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EPA to develop regulation for perchlorate and toxic chemicals in drinking water (HQ, AZ, AR, CA, NV)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today announced the agency’s decision to move forward with the development of a regulation for perchlorate to protect Americans from any potential health impacts, while also continuing to take steps to ensure the quality of the water they drink. The decision to undertake a first-ever national standard for perchlorate ...
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EPA to develop regulation for perchlorate and toxic chemicals in drinking water (DC)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today announced the agency’s decision to move forward with the development of a regulation for perchlorate to protect Americans from any potential health impacts, while also continuing to take steps to ensure the quality of the water they drink. The decision to undertake a first-ever national standard for perchlorate ...
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USGS Finds Elevated Levels of Arsenic, Radon, Methane in Some Private Wells in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
Tests of 75 private drinking water wells in Lycoming County, in north-central Pennsylvania, found water from most of the sampled wells contained concentrations of radon that exceeded a proposed, nonbinding health standard for drinking water. Smaller percentages of the wells contained concentrations of arsenic or methane that exceed existing drinking water standards. The US Geological Survey ...
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Herbal defluoridation of drinking water
A filtration system based on a medicinal herb can quickly and easily remove “fluoride” from drinking water, say researchers in India. The technology described in the March issue of the International Journal of Environmental Engineering uses parts of the plant Tridax procumbens as a biocarbon filter for the ion. Drinking water can contain natural fluoride or fluoride might be added ...
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Eight drinking water systems in Alaska are in violation of the safe drinking water act (WA)
Eight Alaskan drinking water systems are being ordered to conduct water sampling required to protect human health, or face potential fines for violations of federal drinking water laws, according to compliance orders issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The systems violated the Safe Drinking Water Act and the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations. These systems did not ...
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AWWA testifies on potential improvements to Safe Drinking Water Act
In a U.S. House subcommittee hearing today, the American Water Works Association (AWWA) testified that updates to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) are overdue and necessary to assist communities with water infrastructure and compliance challenges. Speaking before the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Environment during Infrastructure Week, Water Utility Council Chair Kurt Vause presented ...
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Determination of toxicity in water
LAR's online analyzer ToxAlarm is a measuring system for the determination of toxicity in drinking and surface water. The analyzer contains a highly sensitive bacteria culture in a fermenter, which constantly and independently produces biomass. Since every water sample is tested with a small and fresh amount of bacteria, the risk of the entire bacteria culture within the analyzer being ...
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Breaking Boundaries
In the latest Netflix sustainability documentary Breaking Boundaries, Johan Rockström highlighted the environmental impact of green-blue algal blooms that have become increasingly common in European waters. To combat this issue, a reactive product solution has been successfully installed in Belgium by Ecocoast to supply floating booms specifically designed to contain the bi-product of ...
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New Study Links BPA Exposures during Pregnancy and Behavior Problems
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Harvard School of Public Health recently released findings of a new study concerning human exposure to BPA. The researchers measured BPA levels in the urine of 244 pregnant women and from their children after birth. The research appears to indicate a link between high BPA levels and behavioral problems in young girls. ...
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Puerto Rico Prepares for Hurricane Season and Tips to Help Safeguard Homes and Businesses
Hurricane season in the Caribbean and Atlantic begins on June 1st and runs through November 30th. The residents of Puerto Rico are no strangers to the destruction caused by hurricanes and tropical storms. These powerful storms have resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in property damage in the last decade alone for the islands’ residents. To help prepare the public, the Centers ...
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EPA Encourages Newburgh Families to Have Soil Checked for Lead
On October 15, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck will join Orange County Executive Steven Neuhaus and Newburgh Mayor Judy Kennedy at the Lead Safe Newburgh Coalition's "Soil Kitchen" event at the Riverfront Marina. At this “Soil Kitchen” event, Newburgh families can have their soil screened for lead and talk to lead experts from EPA, the Agency ...
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