river treatment system News
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Orval Kent Food Company, Inc., to pay $390,000 civil penalty for industrial wastewater discharges at Baxter Springs, Kan. (KS)
An Illinois food processing company has agreed to pay a $390,000 civil penalty to the United States to settle allegations that its Baxter Springs, Kan., processing facility overloaded the city’s wastewater treatment system with millions of gallons of industrial wastewater, at times causing pollution along a 22-mile-long section of the Spring River in southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma. ...
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River Rhine commended for river basin management
The River Rhine has won the first ever International River Foundation (IRF) European River Prize, which is given for remarkable achievements in integrated river basin management. The other finalists were the Órbigo River in Spain, the Upper Drau in Austria, and the Mura-Drava-Danube in Central Europe. River basin management of the Rhine has improved dramatically in recent years, following ...
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Aerospace Giant to Pay $12 Million for Discharge Violations
HARTFORD, Connecticut (ENS) - Aerospace systems manufacturer Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation, of Windsor Locks, Connecticut, pleaded guilty on Thursday before U.S. District Judge Alvin Thompson in Hartford to two counts of violating the federal Clean Water Act. The company admitted discharging hexavalent chromium and copper to the Farmington River in excess of its permit limits. In a binding ...
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Battery manufacturer in Corydon, Iowa, to pay $53,547 penalty for failure to monitor and report wastewater discharges (IA)
East Penn LLC, which operates a lead acid battery manufacturing facility in Corydon, Iowa, has reached a settlement with EPA Region 7 over issues related to the company’s failure to properly monitor and report discharges of its industrial process wastewater into the City of Corydon’s public wastewater treatment system. East Penn LLC, located on Highway 2, Corydon, has agreed to pay a ...
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STS Instruments look to appoint UK distributor
STS Instruments Ltd have announced that they are looking to appoint a UK distributor for their range of fluorescence based water quality monitoring equipment. STS Instruments Ltd are a small UK based manufacturer established over 20 years ago. STS have produced 2 novel instruments for investigating organic pollutants in water bodies, the first is a spectroflourimeter the SMF2 and the second is a ...
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City of Great Falls and Malteurop North America agree to control toxic gases and raw sewage overflows to protect community
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that the City of Great Falls, Mont., and Malteurop North America, Inc. (Malteurop) have agreed to control wastewater discharges that generate high levels of toxic gas in the City’s sewer system. The City has also agreed to make improvements to its wastewater treatment system to reduce raw sewage overflows in the city and the ...
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New England Water Environment Association Recognized for Outstanding Service
The New England Water Environment Association (NEWEA), based in Woburn, Mass., was recently honored with the "2013 Regional Wastewater Association Excellence Award" by EPA. The EPA Regional Wastewater Excellence Awards Program recognizes municipal personnel in the wastewater field who have provided invaluable public service operating wastewater treatment facilities throughout New England. In ...
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City of South Bend agrees to improve sewer system to address clean water act violations
The United States Attorney’s Office and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that the City of South Bend, Indiana has agreed to make an estimated $509.5 million worth of improvements to its combined sewer system to significantly reduce overflows of raw sewage to the St. Joseph River, which is a tributary of Lake Michigan. One well-known stretch of the St. Joseph ...
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In its ongoing efforts to require Tonawanda Coke Corporation (TCC) to comply with environmental regulations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered the coke manufacturing facility to comply with its Clean Water Act permit. Among other violations, TCC is discharging industrial wastewater containing cyanide in excess of its permit limits into the town of Tonawanda’s ...
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