water supply contamination News
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ExxonMobil found liable for US$105m for contaminating New York City’s drinking water supply
A federal jury has unanimously held ExxonMobil liable for contaminating New York City’s drinking water supply with the gasoline additive MTBE (methyl tertiary butyl ether). The jury awarded the City of New York a total of $105 million in compensatory damages after an 11-week trial.The jury found that gasoline containing MTBE was not reasonably safe for its intended use in light of foreseeable ...
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Genes and GPS used to map spread of typhoid
A combination of geographic and genetic data is showing how typhoid fever spreads, and could be used for mapping other disease patterns, a study has reported. Researchers used DNA sequencing, global positioning system (GPS) and Google Earth technologies to track typhoid transmission in Kathmandu, the rapidly growing capital city of Nepal, where thousands fall ill with typhoid fever each year. ...
By SciDev.Net
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EPA Proposes Additional Water Line Connections for Groundwater Contamination at Tinkham Garage Superfund Site in Londonderry, NH
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in consultation with New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES), is proposing additional connections to an existing water line for residents whose wells have been found to have contamination and whom live northeast section of the Tinkham Garage Superfund Site (Site). This proposal is included in a draft Explanation of Significant ...
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EPA orders $60 million groundwater cleanup at toxic ‘mega’ superfund site in Sacramento County
The U.S. Environmental Protection is ordering a $60 million clean-up of rocket fuel-polluted groundwater at the Aerojet Superfund Site in Sacramento County, Calif., the latest phase of a long-term decontamination project at the site. The extent of toxic pollution at the site makes it one of the largest and most comprehensive Superfund groundwater cleanups in California. A 27-square mile swath of ...
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How science is tackling Pakistan`s water shortages
Efforts are underway to preserve Pakistan's water supply as climate change, population growth and a stressed irrigation system take their toll. Water availability per person has already fallen by more than 500 per cent since the 1960s and is likely to decrease even further to just 550 cubic metres by 2025 — compared with the 9,800 cubic metres currently available in the United States, for ...
By SciDev.Net
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NY to require manufacturers to pay for fouled water cleanup
Two industrial companies will be held liable for the cleanup of a toxic chemical that found its way into an upstate New York village's drinking water, the acting state environmental commissioner said Thursday. The Department of Environmental Conservation sent a letter to New Jersey-based Honeywell International and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, part of a Paris-based global conglomerate, ...
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EPA proposes plan for next phase of cleanup at crown cleaners superfund site in Herrings, New York; agency encouraging public comment
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a plan to demolish a building, dig up contaminated soil and sediment, and treat the ground water at the Crown Cleaners of Watertown, Inc. Superfund site in Herrings, New York. The soil, sediment and ground water are contaminated with volatile organic compounds and polyaromatic hydrocarbons from past operations at the former laundry and ...
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EPA adds garfield ground water contamination site in Garfield, NJ to the superfund list; 500 homes and businesses inspected for contamination by hexavalent chromium
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced its decision to add the Garfield Ground Water Contamination site in Garfield, New Jersey to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Ground water contaminated with the chemical hexavalent chromium is seeping into basements in some Garfield homes and businesses. Hexavalent chromium is ...
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EPA finalizes plan for next phase of cleanup at Jefferson County, New York Toxic Site, which has contaminated public water supply
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan to demolish a building, dig up contaminated soil and sediment, and treat the ground water at the Crown Cleaners of Watertown, Inc. Superfund site in Herrings, New York. The soil and sediment are contaminated with volatile organic compounds and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and the ground water is contaminated with volatile ...
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Cleanup project to install new water supply for properties contaminated by Durham Meadows Superfund Site
EPA has allocated $9 million to jump start cleanup activities at the Durham Meadows Superfund site in Durham, Conn. The funding will support the installation of an alternative water supply to the Superfund site area, serving over 100 residential and commercial structures, including Regional School District 13. Many of the homes and businesses to be connected have treatment systems or are being ...
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EPA extends comment period on proposed cleanup plan for grand traverse overall supply superfund site (MI)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 is extending the public comment period on proposed changes to the soil cleanup plan selected for the Grand Traverse Overall Supply Superfund site in Traverse City, Mich. EPA now will accept comments through Jan. 7, 2011. Copies of the proposed changes to the cleanup plan are available at the Traverse Area District Library, 22 Sixth St., Traverse ...
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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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Groundwater Remediation for Environmental Safety
For farmers, landowners, businesses and local governments, groundwater is an essential resource. If local groundwater is not properly protected and managed, contamination can quickly become a common environmental problem that will reduce or eliminate the ability to use the resource and require remediation to restore its value. Groundwater remediation is the process of managing and reversing the ...
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EPA to demolish contaminated building at toxic superfund site in Garfield, N.J.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck was joined today by New Jersey Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Senator Robert Menendez and Congressmember Bill Pascrell, Jr. as she announced that the EPA will safely demolish the E.C. Electroplating building at the Garfield Superfund site in Garfield, New Jersey. The building, located at 125 Clark Street, is contaminated ...
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EPA proposes to add garfield ground water contamination site in garfield, NJ to the superfund list
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed to add the Garfield Ground Water Contamination site in Garfield, NJ to its Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Ground water underneath this commercial and residential area is contaminated with hexavalent chromium and is seeping into area basements. For the past two years, EPA has been ...
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EPA agreement with oil production companies ensures safe drinking water for Poplar, Montana
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with three oil production companies operating on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana requiring the companies to address groundwater contamination threatening the City of Poplar’s public water supply system. The agreement with Murphy Exploration & Production Co. (Murphy), Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. (Pioneer), ...
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Groups Notify Yakima Valley Factory Dairy of Intent to Sue for Endangering Public Health
Today, Center for Food Safety, Community Association for Restoration of the Environment (CARE), and Friends of Toppenish Creek notified View Point Dairy, owned by Bill DeRuyter, in the Yakima Valley that they intend to sue the dairy in federal court to stop contamination of local drinking water supplies with animal waste from the confinement dairy operations. The notice alleges that View Point ...
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Shell fined for polluting UK groundwater
Shell UK Oil Products Ltd has been fined GBP 18000 by Grimsby Magistrates’ Court for polluting the groundwaters close to its Toothill Petrol Filling Station at Yarborough Road, Grimsby. The cost of cleaning up the underground contamination, which has been paid by Shell to Anglian Water, is estimated to be about GBP 5 million, the court was told on Wednesday (25 June 2008). The company was also ...
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EPA Finalizes $4 Million Cleanup Plan for Fulton Avenue Superfund Site in Hempstead and North Hempstead, N.Y.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its decision to modify an interim cleanup plan originally issued in 2007 to address a portion of the contaminated groundwater at the Fulton Avenue Superfund site in the Towns of North Hempstead and Hempstead, N.Y. The groundwater is contaminated with volatile organic compounds, including perchloroethylene, that resulted in part from previous ...
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World Pump Market to Reach $49 Billion/yr by 2016
The world market for pumps will grow from just under $30 billion this year to $49 billion/yr by 2016. This latest forecast from the McIlvaine Company, Northfield, IL is included in the continually updated online, Pumps: World Markets. While world GDP will grow only 4 percent per year during the next ten years, the pump market will grow at 5 percent per year. This is despite growth of ...
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