Monthly Archives: April 2012

Plan to clean up PCB in Pond? 4/03/2012 (Blog Date) The argument was compelling: setting nature’s microbes loose to feast upon decades-old carcinogens. But after all the scientific data and lab results had faded from the screen at the front … Continue reading →

Illegal Ocean dumping persists despite DOJ crackdown: Over the past 10 years, a Justice Department report shows, the Vessel Pollution Program has triggered more than $200 million in fines and 17 years in prison for ship officers and executives for … Continue reading →

Radioactive iodine in Philadelphia Water tied to thyroid patients: Government officials have now confirmed what they strongly suspected a year ago: The radioactive iodine-131 in some of the region’s waterways, also found in minute amounts in Philadelphia’s drinking water, is … Continue reading →

Discharge without permit & 431 discharge violations by 1 city WWTP!   Wapato Washington’s city sewage treatment plant cited for exceeding ammonia levels and operating without a water discharge permit   http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/bdb877436f6d7a1e852579d0007159ea!OpenDocument