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Soil & Groundwater Newsletter January 27, 2011 |
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Environmental Sensing Platform installed in the Great Salt Lake, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah – Precision Measurement Engineering, Inc (PME), an internationally known oceanographic and limnologic instrument design corporation provided a LakeESP sensor monitoring buoy to the U.S. Geological Survey for the Great Salt Lake in early, 2010. The LakeESP (Environmental Sensing Platform) is a lake sensor buoy able to collect a variety of water and air measurements every minute or so. These data are then telemetered via cell phone to a customer specified computer for analysis and observation. The Great Salt Lake system collects a variety of water and air data ... |
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EPA takes step to improve Lake Champlain water quality
After a careful review, EPA has disapproved Vermont’s 2002 water quality plan that set phosphorus targets for discharges into Lake Champlain. Following this action, EPA intends to work closely and collaboratively with the State to develop a new plan for reductions in phosphorus from sources in Vermont. Elevated levels of phosphorus cause algae blooms and other water quality problems in Lake Champlain. Today’s action follows EPA’s reconsideration and withdrawal of its 2002 approval of the plan. The Conservation Law Foundation had challenged that approval in federal court. EPA’s ... |
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