drinking water operator News
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Remarks of Cynthia Giles, EPA Assistant Administrator for Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance on Duke Energy Subsidiaries Guilty Plea and Sentencing for Clean Water Act Crimes **Remarks as Prepared for Delivery**
EPA is proud to stand alongside our partner, Assistant Attorney General John Cruden and the Justice Department, as well as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina Thomas Walker. And we appreciate the support from the US attorney’s offices for the western and middle districts and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Today we bring a measure of justice to ...
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Major Milestone Reached at Mohonk Road Industrial Plant Superfund Site
(New York, N.Y.) Top officials marked a major milestone today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony that announced the opening of the High Falls drinking water plant. Alan J. Steinberg, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 2 Administrator, was joined by Congressman Hinchey, Colonel Tortora of the U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers, Marbletown and Rosendale Town Supervisors Martello and ...
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P&G children`s safe drinking water program commits to `save a life every hour` at 2010 clinto global initiaitive
The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) today announced its intent to provide enough clean water to save a life every hour through the Children's Safe Drinking Water Program, a not-for-profit program founded by P&G that provides clean drinking water in the developing world. Unveiled at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in New York City, this CGI commitment will be made possible by the ...
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Breakthrough Technology: ANDalyze Introduces Real-time Water Testing for Heavy Metals Powered by DNA
ANDalyze offers a new sensor/fluorimeter platform solution for simplifying the on-site testing and analysis of water for heavy metal contamination. This new product requires no special knowledge of chemistry, greatly reducing operational testing time and cost for the water industry. Champaign, IL: ANDalyze has developed an innovative heavy metals sensor platform technology for water testing ...
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Upcoming Pittcon 2015
HORIBA Scientific will be speaking at the upcoming Pittcon 2015 symposium entitled, "Using analytical solutions to target emerging issues in drinking water safety." Adam Gilmore, PhD, will be discussing: "Optical monitoring and optimization of wastewater recycling operations with simultaneous fluorescence and absorbance measurements." The symposium's description is: "Using analytical solutions ...
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Pall Point-of-Use Filters Offer Solution for German Water Contamination Issue
Microbiological results from a test by TÜV Rheinland (Germany) and German broadcaster ARD showed that every second water sample analyzed from publicly accessed buildings and vehicles was contaminated (based on total bacterial count), and some of them with E.coli or coliforms and Legionella. In all, 50 water samples, including those from city halls, ...
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EPA finalizes plan to clean up old dry cleaner site in Hempstead, New York; chemicals used in dry cleaning found in water next to Woodmere Middle School
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a plan to clean up ground water at the Peninsula Boulevard Ground Water Plume Superfund site in Hempstead, N.Y. by removing and treating contaminated ground water from the site. The ground water is contaminated with the volatile organic compounds tetrachloroethylene and tricholoroethylene, chemicals used in dry cleaning that can seriously ...
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Utilities and Water Companies Turn to Mycometer’s BactiQuant®Water Technology
Water companies and various industries have been increasingly utilizing the BactiQuant®Water method developed by Mycometer to identify bacterial contaminants in water. The BactiQuant®Water is a relatively new patented method that provides water companies and industry with a rapid method to estimate total bacteria in water samples. The method is well suited for HACCP systems and Water ...
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Climate Action Plan Toolkit: EPA Releases Stormwater Climate Change Tool
As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan Virtual Climate Resilience Toolkit, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of the Climate Adjustment Tool for EPA’s Stormwater Management Model – a widely-used, downloadable online stormwater simulation model. The Climate Adjustment Tool allows engineers and planners to evaluate the performance of ...
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California pledges changes in protecting underground water
California has proposed closing by October up to 140 oil-field wells that state regulators had allowed to inject into federally protected drinking water aquifers, state officials said. The deadline is part of a broad plan the state sent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week for bringing state regulation of oil and gas operations back into compliance with federal safe-drinking water ...
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WHO ISSUES REVISED DRINKING WATER GUIDELINES TO HELP PREVENT WATER-RELATED OUTBREAKS AND DISEASE
Untitled Document Marrakech/Geneva - Ensuring drinking water is safe is a challenge in every part of the world, from water piped into people's homes, to rural wells and water provided to refugee camps in an emergency. Contamination of drinking water is too often detected only after a health crisis, when people have fallen ill or died as a result of drinking unsafe water. ...
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Gold King Mine Release Update-August 10
Background On August 5, while investigating the Gold King Mine in Colorado, an EPA cleanup team triggered a large release of mine wastewater into Cement Creek. EPA is working closely with responders and local and state officials to monitor water contaminated by the release. The release’s path flows through three of EPA’s regions (Region 8 (Colorado/Utah & Southern Ute Tribe); ...
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