surface water contamination News
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EPA administrator Lisa P. Jackson to announce Great Lakes Grants in Toledo today
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will announce EPA’s first Great Lakes Restoration Initiative competitive grants at an event today in Toledo, Ohio. She will be joined in Toledo by Ohio Lt. Governor Lee Fisher, Ohio EPA Director Chris Korleski, Mayor Michael Bell, City Councilman Mike Craig and Tim Eder, Executive Director, Great Lakes Commission. The ...
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EPA, precision national plating reach settlement on cleanup at Clarks Summit, Pa. site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with Precision National Plating Services, Inc. on a plan to clean up groundwater and surface water contamination at a site in Clarks Summit, Pa. where the company had operated a chrome plating facility from 1958 to 1999. EPA has been overseeing Precision’s cleanup activities at the site since 1991. The company was performing ...
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US$3m in environmental community grants to be awarded
The US Environmental Protection Agency is making nearly US$3 million available in 2009 to reduce pollution at the local level through the Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) program. CARE is a community-based program that builds partnerships to help the public understand and reduce toxic risks from numerous sources. EPA will award CARE cooperative agreements in two levels. Level I ...
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Scientists suggest alternative source of arsenic contamination
New research contradicts previous findings that arsenic contamination — an environmental crisis that affects more than 60 million people in the Bengal Basin — in groundwater may result from arsenic coming from man-made ponds, suggesting instead that it originates in sediments in aquifers. Groundwater sites across southern and eastern Asia contains arsenic levels that can cause ...
By SciDev.Net
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EPA Announces Opportunity to Apply for 2013 Environmental Justice Small Grants Up to Five Awards Available in Southeast
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it is seeking applicants for a total of $1.5 million in environmental justice small grants to be awarded in 2013. EPA’s environmental justice efforts aim to ensure equal environmental and health protections for all Americans, regardless of race or socioeconomic status. The grants enable non-profit organizations to conduct ...
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EPA Proposes Cleanup Plan for Toxic Site in Newfield, New Jersey
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a plan to address soil, sediment and surface water that is contaminated with hexavalent chromium and heavy metals by past industrial operations at the Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. site in Newfield and Vineland, New Jersey. The proposed plan calls for a combination of cleanup measures at portions of the site including capping of the soil, ...
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EPA Finalizes Cleanup Plan for Toxic Site in Newfield, New Jersey
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a plan to address soil, sediment and surface water that is contaminated with hexavalent chromium and heavy metals by past industrial operations at the Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. site in Newfield and Vineland, New Jersey. The EPA is requiring a combination of cleanup measures at portions of the site including capping of the soil, ...
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Final cleanup plan approved for Cabot carbon/koppers superfund site in Gainesville, Fla. (FL)
A final cleanup plan, formalized in a document known as the Record of Decision (ROD), has been signed by EPA for the Cabot Carbon/Koppers Superfund Site in Gainesville, Fla. The ROD outlines how the Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) Beazer East will be required to address soil, sediment, groundwater and surface water contamination from the site. EPA will oversee the work to ensure all the ...
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EPA, DOE and TDEC reach resolution on Oak Ridge reservation clean-up (TN)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) reached a resolution on two disputes related to ORR not fully completing its cleanup activities on two projects at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP). DOE’s ORR facility was placed on the Superfund National ...
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Environmental well sealing new product announcement:
AquaBlok, Ltd., manufacturers of innovative claybased composite materials, is proud to announce the introduction of a new family of annular well sealant materials that benefit from the company’s patented delivery system for bentonite sealant materials. HoleBlok+ annular sealants combines two well-established and proven technologies; zerovalent iron (ZVI) and bentonite to form a unique ...
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EPA enforcement actions in New Mexico cut pollution, restore environment
(Dallas, Texas – November 15, 2006) More than $4.9 billion in environmental improvements were secured and more than 890 million pounds of pollution were reduced as a result of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement activities this year. A total of $1.3 billion in environmental improvements and 181 million pounds in pollution reductions were realized across the region ...
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ARCO pays US$2.7m to contain waste at old copper mine
The Atlantic Richfield Company, ARCO, has been ordered to reimburse the federal government US$2.77 million for work already performed to clean up abandoned wastes from the Anaconda copper mine that are contaminating air and water in central Nevada. The order issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency also requires ARCO to fund and develop a plan for a technical assistance program to ...
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EPA Proposes Plan to Clean up Groundwater at Superfund Site in Newfield, N.J.; Public Meeting to be Held August 12
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed modifications to the plan to address contaminated groundwater at the Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corp. site in Newfield and Vineland, N.J. A plan originally put into place by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection when it was mainly responsible for the site had required a system that pumps the groundwater out of the ground and ...
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EPA requires Chevron Pipe Line to provide funding for oil spill response
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today reached a settlement with Chevron Pipe Line Company resolving Clean Water Act violations associated with two oil spills at the company’s facilities in Utah. As part of the settlement, the Bellaire, Texas-based company will pay a civil penalty of $875,000. The penalty will be deposited into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, a fund used ...
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NSF International Gains United States Coast Guard Acceptance as Independent Laboratory for Ballast Water Management System Testing
Testing to reduce the risk of aquatic invasive species in lakes, streams, rivers and coastal waters NSF International (NSF), an independent public health organization, has become the first Independent Laboratory (IL) accepted by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) to evaluate and test technologies designed to treat ballast water on ships in order to prevent the spread of non-native aquatic ...
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EPA Orders Army to Take Corrective Measures at Fort Gillem
EPA Region 4 issued an Order today that requires the U.S. Army take expedited corrective measures at the former Fort Gillem in Forest Park, Georgia. EPA issued the Order under Section 7003 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), which is intended to address an imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment related to past waste handling activities. The Army has ...
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More than US$22m sought for Northern California mine site cleanup
The US Department of Justice, on behalf of the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, filed a complaint today seeking more than $22 million to recover past cleanup costs at the Lava Cap Mine Superfund Site in Nevada County, Calif. The complaint, filed against alleged former owner and operator Canadian-based Sterling Centrecorp Inc., and ...
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EPA`s FY 2016 Budget Proposal Increases Support for Communities to Deliver Core Environmental and Health Protections
The Obama Administration Fiscal Year 2016 budget announced today for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lays out a strategy to ensure that all Americans benefit from the economic recovery we are seeing today. The proposed EPA FY 2016 budget of $8.6 billion provides resources vital to that overarching vision and the request is $452 million above the agency’s enacted level for FY ...
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Settlement Ensures that Lawrence Addresses Wastewater and Stormwater Discharges
Under the terms of a Consent Decree lodged today in federal court to address violations of the Clean Water Act, the City of Lawrence will focus efforts on conditions that result in sewer overflows and contaminated stormwater. The Consent Decree is the result of a federal enforcement action brought by the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The ...
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Under Settlement Bangor, Maine Takes Additional Action to Address Wastewater and Stormwater Discharges
Under the terms of a Consent Decree lodged today in federal court to address noncompliance with the Clean Water Act, the City of Bangor, Maine, will take action to prevent sewer overflows and contaminated stormwater from entering the Penobscot River and Kenduskeag Stream. The City complied fully with the terms of an earlier consent decree with EPA but had not fully achieved the goals set forth ...
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