sanitary water News
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U.S. EPA awards Hawaii over $20 million to improve water quality, protect public health
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently awarded the Hawaii Department of Health a $10,946,000 million grant for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and a $9,125,000 million grant for the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund for water pollution control and drinking water infrastructure projects. The Department of Health will use the funds to provide low-cost loans to the state’s ...
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Ready-mix concrete producer agrees to resolve clean water act violations
Aggregate Industries - Northeast Region Inc., will pay a $2.75 million civil penalty and implement a regional evaluation and compliance program to resolve numerous violations of the Clean Water Act at 23 facilities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. The penalty is the largest ever assessed to a nationwide ready-mix ...
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Southeast facilities ordered to stop discharging and comply with clean water act (AL, TN)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued Administrative Orders (AOs) against two entities, one in Alabama and one in Tennessee, during August 2010 for violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA). "By taking these enforcement actions, we are sending a strong message about the importance of protecting rivers, lakes and streams across the Southeast,” said Stan Meiburg, EPA Region 4 ...
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Sewage Pollution Still Widespread in Waterways across the U.S.
According to the Huffington Post, the infamous Gowanus canal in Brooklyn, N.Y. receives countless gallons of sewage—often untreated—and unsanitary debris that overflow the city’s multi-use pipes after a rainstorm. Even after the rain stops, the noxious water remains in the sulfuric-smelling canal. Although this waterway is an extreme example, it is one of many that are polluted ...
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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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Beach Report: 10 Percent of America’s Beach Water Samples Fail Safety Test
Ten percent of all water quality samples collected last year from nearly 3,500 coastal and Great Lakes beaches in the U.S. contained bacteria levels that failed to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s most protective benchmark for swimmer safety. According to the 24th annual beach report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the findings confirm that serious ...
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