Groundwater
Jun 12 2019
Ohio State University researchers created maps with locations around the globe where groundwater meets oceans. According to Newswise, this map is the…
Jun 11 2019
The Water Systems Council (WSC) and the National Ground Water Assn. (NGWA) filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) brief in a case currently…
Jun 10 2019
Nearly 40 craft breweries in the U.S. submitted a letter that opposes a recent U.S. EPA proposal June 6. The proposal aims to stop controlling…
May 28 2019
Ameren’s Labadie Energy Center in Missouri has dumped its coal ash in coal ash ponds since 1970. According to the U.S. EPA, coal ash includes a list…
May 23 2019
Using chlorine isotopes as chemical tracers, a University of Delaware (UD) study aimed to determine the age and origin of groundwater in the Eastern…
May 15 2019
The U.S. EPA announced the addition of seven hazardous waste sites to the Superfund Program’s National Priorities List (NPL) May 13. According to EPA…
May 9 2019
Filtered groundwater may be sent through the North Kent Sewer Authority system as part of the Wolverine World Wide’s plan to clean up toxic PFAS…
May 8 2019
A U.S. EPA proposal aims to clarify state and federal cleanup standards for groundwater and drinking water contaminated by chemicals, including those…
May 6 2019
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced that three public hearings on groundwater withdrawal permits for poultry farms in…
Apr 16 2019
Groundwater levels during 2018, on average, rose or remained even throughout most of western and central Kansas, according to preliminary data…
Apr 15 2019
Stanford University researchers believe they have identified the best way to replenish the shrinking aquifers beneath California’s Central Valley.…
Apr 11 2019
In Wisconsin, the Department of Natural Resources is asking a state health agency to study the potential impacts of a group of unregulated…
Apr 2 2019
For decades, Charlotte County, Fla., has drawn a growing number of retirees from northern climates seeking sunshine, lower taxes and a slower pace of…
Apr 2 2019
In Roswell, N.M., an old dry cleaning business left behind toxic chemicals after closing up shop. This caused the site to be declared a U.S.…
Mar 26 2019
A paper by the Council of Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) examines the causes and consequences of groundwater depletion throughout the U.S…
Mar 25 2019
For years, the EU Commission has warned Germany about illegally high levels of nitrate in groundwater. According to EURACTIV, the European Court of…
Mar 21 2019
For decades, chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, were used in many things from carpets to frying pans to firefighting…
Mar 20 2019
Groundwater monitoring found elevated levels of several toxic chemicals near coal ash disposal sites at Platte River Power Authority’s Rawhide Energy…
Mar 14 2019
The Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) has released a report on U.S. states with coal ash contamination in groundwater and Illinois has made the…
Mar 12 2019
Unsafe contamination from coal ash disposal sites at half a dozen power plants in western North Dakota has seeped into groundwater sources, according…
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