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29 States Unprepared for Growing Water Threats!

4/13/2012 (Blog Date)

WASHINGTON (April 5, 2012) – Only nine states have taken comprehensive steps to address their vulnerabilities to the water-related impacts of climate change, while 29 states are unprepared for growing water threats to their economies and public health.

http://www.nrdc.org/media/2012/120405.asp?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NRDCPressReleases+%28NRDC+Press+Releases%29

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EPA Order: Stop Discharging Pollutants into Louisiana Waters!

4/07/2012 (Blog Date)

(DALLAS – March 16, 2012) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a cease and desist administrative order to the Kevin Basham Farm in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, for unauthorized discharges of chicken litter into a tributary of the Dugdemona River.

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/ed4e7547807aa931852579c6004b2f80!opendocument

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Michigan City wastewater superintendent pleads guilty to testing violations

4/07/2012 (Blog Date)

The former superintendent of the Michigan City wastewater treatment plant admitted Thursday morning that he knowingly hid information about water bypassing the plant and other issues from the government.

http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/11735574-418/michigan-city-wastewater-superintendent-pleads-guilty-to-testing-violations.html

Earlier story:

http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/sbt-former-head-of-wastewater-treatment-plant-charged-with-falsifying-reports-20120321,0,1321110.story?track=rss

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Massachusetts town struggles with Coca-Cola’s Waste!

4/06/2012 (Blog Date)

This industry’s waste is becoming too expensive for the city to process.

http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/03/northampton-coca-cola/     

Sand and Gravel Facility faces possible $532,500 Fine from EPA!

4/06/2012 (Blog Date)

Allegations of discharging process waste waters and stormwater from the facility without proper permits and by failing to prepare and implement a Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure Plan.

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/3881d73f4d4aaa0b85257359003f5348/994f1fe9cbdf67ec852579ce00621a34!OpenDocument

226 million pounds of toxic chemicals dumped in American waterways in 2010!

4/05/2012 (Blog Date)

Environment America’s (environmentamerica/org) major findings on multiple industries dumping are following:

-Pollution from just five states

       (Indiana, Virginia, Nebraska, Texas, and Georgia)

–The Ohio River received 32 million of the total:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120403/NEWS01/304030055/Ohio-River-tops-nation-pollution-discharges?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Local%20News

-Food & beverage manufacturing

        (slaughter houses, rendering plants, etc.)

-Industries discharged 1.5 million pounds of cancer-causing chemicals

        (Arsenic, chromium, and benzene)

-90 % of the total volume discharged could be toxic to infants.

        (Nitrates in infant causing formula)

http://www.environmentamerica.org/news/ame/america%E2%80%99s-waterways-received-226-million-pounds-toxic-chemicals

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 of the room, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality was unmoved.

http://www2.newsadvance.com/news/2012/apr/01/deq-unimpressed-altavistas-plan-clean-pcbs-pond-ar-1810331/

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 deliberately dumping waste overboard and trying to hide their crimes.

http://www.iwatchnews.org/2012/03/30/8558/illegal-ocean-dumping-persists-despite-doj-crackdown

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 coming from thyroid patients.

http://articles.philly.com/2012-03-30/news/31261499_1_radioactive-iodine-drinking-water-thyroid-patients

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