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EPA Adds Burnet Co., TX, Groundwater Plume to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added the Main Street Groundwater Plume site in Burnet Co., TX, to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, a list of sites that pose risks to people’s health and the environment. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country and ...
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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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Solinst Telemetry Helps Assess Drought Conditions in North Carolina
The Water Resources Division of North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) is responsible for protecting, enhancing, and managing North Carolina’s surface water and groundwater resources. More than half of North Carolina’s population receives its drinking water from aquifers. With a large amount of the state’s groundwater also being used for irrigation, ...
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EPA Proposes to Add Burnet Co., TX, Groundwater Plume to National Priorities List of Superfund Sites
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to add the Main Street Groundwater Plume site in Burnet Co., TX, to the National Priorities List (NPL) of Superfund sites, a list of sites that pose risks to people’s health and the environment. Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country ...
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EPA to begin sampling water at some residences in Dimock, Pa.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it plans to perform water sampling at approximately 60 homes in the Carter Road/Meshoppen Creek Road area of Dimock, Pa. to further assess whether any residents are being exposed to hazardous substances that cause health concerns. EPA’s decision to conduct sampling is based on EPA’s review of data provided by residents, ...
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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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Low-Flow groundwater sampling - latest research and equipment options
Details: Date: Thursday, 29th March 2018 Time: 1:30 p.m. EDT Duration: 45 minute presentation, 15 minute Q & A About This Webinar: In this webinar, David Kaminski will present the latest information on well purging protocols, and discuss low-flow sampling pump options, including the newest pumping equipment available for low-flow sampling. David will describe traditional well purging ...
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Market for chemicals to treat air will grow faster than water
The present world market for chemicals to combat air pollutants is $13.8 billion but will be growing at a healthy eight percent per year over the next five years. The larger ($24 billion) water treatment chemicals market will be growing by six percent per year (real dollars). These are the latest findings by McIlvaine Company through extracting forecasts from a number of its market reports. ...
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EPA and State of Hawaii negotiate historic settlement with U.S. Navy to upgrade Red Hill storage tanks
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) announced a proposed agreement with the U.S. Navy and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) requiring the military to take measures to minimize the threat of future leaks at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility near Pearl Harbor, Oahu, the site of a major fuel release last year. With 250 million ...
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EPA, State of Hawaii negotiate final settlement with U.S. Navy to upgrade Red Hill storage tanks
Following a 50 day public comment period, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) announced the final agreement with the U.S. Navy and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) that requires the military to take immediate and long-term steps to minimize the threat of future leaks at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility near Pearl Harbor, Oahu. In response to ...
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Reflections from World Water Week 2021: Wetlands as key to building resilience faster
In recent months the world has seen catastrophic flooding in western Europe and China, extreme heatwaves in North America, and wildfires in Russia, Greece, Turkey and the US. The Paraná River, one of the main commercial waterways in South America supporting one hundred and twenty-eight million people, has reached its lowest level in nearly 80 years due to a prolonged drought. These ...
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EPA orders oil companies to monitor public water supply and private wells in Montana
In response to recent detections of low levels of oil production-related contaminants in the public water supply that serves the city of Poplar, Montana, and the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued an order to Murphy Exploration & Production Co. (Murphy), Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. (Pioneer), and Samson Hydrocarbons Co. (Samson). ...
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