drinking water well News
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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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EPA releases draft findings of pavillion, wyoming ground water investigation for public comment and independent scientific review
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released a draft analysis of data from its Pavillion, Wyoming ground water investigation. At the request of Pavillion residents, EPA began investigating water quality concerns in private drinking water wells three years ago. Since that time, in conjunction with the state of Wyoming, the local community, and the owner of the gas field, Encana, ...
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EPA orders Lapwai School District maintenance shop to cleanup threat to nearby drinking water wells
The Lapwai School District in Lapwai, ID, must clean up an inactive drywell contaminated with solvents (TCE & PCE) to protect nearby public drinking water wells. The cleanup will be conducted under a legal order issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The drywell lies under an asphalt parking lot at the Lapwai School District (District) bus maintenance facility (204 ...
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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 issues an imminent and substantial endangerment order to protect drinking water in Southern Parker County (TX)
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered a natural gas company in Forth Worth, Texas, to take immediate action to protect homeowners living near one of its drilling operations who have complained about flammable and bubbling drinking water coming out of their tap. EPA testing has confirmed that extremely high levels of methane in their water pose an imminent and ...
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U.S. EPA begins perchlorate contamination sampling at residence associated with former mojave pyrotechnics, inc., site in Barstow
This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began collecting surface and subsurface soil samples to test for perchlorate contamination at the Poplar Street home of the former owner/operator of Mojave Pyrotechnics, Inc., a defunct fireworks manufacturing company that operated on North Yucca Street in the 1980s, in Barstow, California. “EPA will work with the City of Barstow and the ...
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Unconventional Oil and Gas Production Not Currently Affecting Drinking Water Quality
A new U.S. Geological Survey study shows that unconventional oil and gas production in some areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas is not currently a significant source of methane or benzene to drinking water wells. These production areas include the Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, and Haynesville shale formations, which are some of the largest sources of natural gas in the country and have trillions ...
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EPA update on Yellowstone River oil spill (Silvertip Pipeline)
As the second week of the oil spill cleanup begins, EPA staff are optimistic about receding water levels in the Yellowstone River, which will allow access to previously inaccessible portions of the river. This news comes as data becomes available from testing and monitoring conducted last week. A map for both water and air monitoring data is now available at ...
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EPA continues outreach for private well access near mills gap site (Former CTS Plant) in Asheville, N.C.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will continue the process of obtaining access agreements to private drinking water wells this week near the Mills Gap Site, site of the former CTS plant, in Asheville, N.C. An August 19, 2009 preliminary data sampling result from a private drinking water well located northeast of the plant indicated elevated levels of trichloroethene (TCE). EPA ...
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EPA orders seven Southern California businesses to clean up San Fernando Valley Superfund site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering seven businesses to pay approximately US$500,000 towards clean up at one of the San Fernando Valley Superfund sites, located outside Los Angeles, Calif., or come up with an equally effective system to keep contaminated groundwater from affecting local drinking water wells. The EPA has been active in groundwater cleanup efforts in the San ...
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Testing of private drinking water wells continues this week at compass plaza well trichloroethylene site near Rogersville, Mo.
EPA staff and contractors will be continuing work near Rogersville, Mo., this week to conduct sampling efforts at private drinking water wells in the vicinity of the Compass Plaza commercial development, as part of a continuing investigation into trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination of groundwater. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) detected the chemical solvent TCE in water ...
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EPA Proposes Indianapolis hazardous waste site for Superfund National Priorities List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today proposed adding the West Vermont Drinking Water Contamination site, Indianapolis, Indiana, to the National Priorities List of Superfund sites. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country. At the site, an 18-acre groundwater plume of chlorinated ...
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EPA Completes Drinking Water Sampling in Dimock, Pa.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has completed its sampling of private drinking water wells in Dimock, Pa. Data previously supplied to the agency by residents, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and Cabot Oil and Gas Exploration had indicated the potential for elevated levels of water contaminants in wells, and following requests by residents ...
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EPA adds south gate industrial facilities to list of nation`s worst toxic sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is adding two new sites to the Superfund National Priorities List in Los Angeles County, Calif. Southern Avenue Industrial Area site and Jervis B. Webb Co. are former industrial facilities located in South Gate. Last year, EPA proposed to add both sites to the list due to soil and groundwater contamination. Volatile organic compounds, including elevated ...
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EPA responders answer state and county calls for help to investigate thousands of leaky containers near Rexburg, Idaho (ID)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, at the request of local, county and state authorities, is conducting a hazardous waste assessment and investigation near Rexburg in Madison County, Idaho. A series of complaint-driven property visits by members of the (Madison) County Planning and Zoning Commission, the Madison County Sheriff’s Office and the Madison Fire Department, all prompted a ...
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Florida hosts town hall on national climate report
The U.S. Global Change Research Program is hosting a town hall this week to inform communities about the draft National Climate Assessment (NCA) report, along with local and regional efforts to respond to the impacts of climate change. The Southeast Regional Town Hall is part of the roll out of the NCA and will take place in Tampa, Florida, on February 19, 2013. Florida faces extensive threats ...
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EPA adds areas of long island to the superfund list; volatile organic compounds found in 11 major drinking water wells
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced its decision to add areas of Hicksville, New Cassel, Westbury, Hempstead and Salisbury in Nassau County, New York to the Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Ground water throughout these areas is contaminated with harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The Magothy aquifer, Nassau ...
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EPA releases results of Pavillion, Wyo. water well testing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the latest data from sampling conducted at Pavillion-area water wells yesterday at a public meeting at the Pavillion Recreation Center. Sample results indicate that the presence of petroleum hydrocarbons and other chemical compounds in groundwater represents a drinking water concern. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ ...
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EPA adds two Puerto Rico sites to the superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added the Cabo Rojo Ground Water Contamination site in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico and the Hormigas Ground Water Plume site in Caguas to its Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sampling at the sites found chemical contamination that is impacting wells once used to supply drinking water to the ...
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EPA Announces Successful Removal of Hazardous Waste from Radiation Technology Superfund Site in Rockaway Township, New Jersey.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck and Congressmember Rodney P. Frelinghuysen today announced the successful removal of 75 drums and containers of hazardous waste from the Radiation Technology, Inc. Superfund site in Rockaway Township, NJ. The officials were in Morris, Essex and Sussex Counties to review and assess progress on Superfund cleanups at five ...
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