Week of June 25, 2012

Tooele County worried about abandoned munitions in ...
The Salt Lake Tribune
"Decades" of abandoned munitions and explosives near the Utah Test and Training Range are causing safety concerns in Tooele County. Share. Post. Leave a ...

Seafood plant evacuated after leaking explosive found
Delaware Online
Dover Air Force Base explosive ordnance disposal technicians were called to a Milford clam-processing plant Friday morning to handle a leaking military explosive discovered among the clams earmarked for processing, military officials said.

EPA seeks to test Hatboro homes near Raymark Superfund site
Montgomery Newspapers
The site, which once housed a metal fabrication shop, was discovered to be contaminating soil and water around it in 1979. Since then the contaminated ground ...

Tetra Tech Awarded Feasibility Study for Environmental ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The remediation effort is a cornerstone of the "Vision in Motion" project being conducted by Cameco Corporation, one of the world's largest uranium producers.

Chesapeake settles lawsuit over contaminated water wells for $1.6 ...
Free Press Courier
Chesapeake Energy, the country's second-largest natural gas producer, reached an agreement with three Bradford County families last Thursday, settling a ...

Contaminated River Water Suspected in India's Hepatitis E Outbreak
The Disease Daily
Officials in Maharashtra, the western Indian state located 300 kilometers south of Mumbai, suspect that contaminated water from the Panchganga river is ...

EPA prepares to clean up Chem-Fab site
PhillyBurbs.com
The soil on the property, which is now home to several businesses including a yoga studio and an adult dance studio, is contaminated with trivalent chromium, ...

Sardinia: Militarization, Contamination and Cancer in Paradise
Scoop
The sheep are still grazing on contaminated land and the local people sell sheep cheese and grapes for ... She said, “Rain leads to the contamination of the soil.

Dirty Soil and Diabetes: Anniston's Toxic Legacy
Climate Central (blog)
Widespread chemical contamination from a Monsanto plant was discovered in this ... no one is quite sure how – the chemicals got into the soil and waterways.

Military explosive found at clam-processing plant
Delaware Online
Dover Air Force Base ordnance disposal technicians are on the scene at a Milford clam-processing plant where a military explosive was discovered among the clams being separated on the conveyor belt.


Week of June 18, 2012

Hazleton Oil accused of dumping hazardous materials
Citizens Voice
Hazleton Oil and Environmental Inc. is alleged to have dumped contaminated soil, stored hazardous waste and discharged antifreeze into sewer drains at their ...

State Ruling Endangers Drinking Water: County Board
Patch.com
When it comes to contaminated drinking water, there are no grey areas. Everything must be done in order to assure our citizens that the water is safe and clean.” ...

Sacred Water, New Mine: Michigan Tribe Battles Corp.
OPB News
The concerns about water contamination stem from the method, sulfide mining, which extracts metals from sulfide ores. When the sulfide ores are crushed, the ...

Tooele County worried about abandoned munitions in recreation ...
Salt Lake Tribune
Decades” of abandoned munitions and explosives near the Utah Test and Training Range are causing safety concerns in Tooele County.

Decontamination course teaches Marines how to combat chemical ...
DVIDS
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — Everyone in the Marine Corps is a rifleman, but not everyone is a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense specialist.

Montebello Students Engage in Decontamination Drill at Beverly ...
Bell Gardens Sun
Students from the Montebello Applied Technology Center participated in a decontamination drill at Beverly Hospital on June 13. The drill aimed to expose ...
Residents Say Nearby Soil Contaminated, Possibly Causing Injury
KVIA El Paso
Luisa Alvarado's 2-year-old daughter showed the packed audience boils on the palms of her hands and feet that her mother said is from playing in contaminated ...

Chemical Demilitarization Work at Blue Grass Estimated to Cost $5.3B
Global Security Newswire
The price tag for total demilitarization of one of the United States' final chemical arsenals is projected at $5.3 billion, the Richmond Register reported on ...

FSB finds abandoned batch of munitions at Altai testing range
Itar-Tass
Russia's Federal Security Service has detected and destroyed a large batch of explosives and munitions abandoned at a ...

Clean up process begins on contaminated Urunga site
Bellingen Courier Sun
“Detailed investigations into the extent and nature of contamination were undertaken by the then Department of Land and Water Conservation.

Week of June 11, 2012

Contaminated soil to be cleaned from 181 sites
Buffalo News
MIDDLEPORT — Another round of soil excavations is being proposed for the village, the state Department of Environmental Conservation announced this we...

Ice factories using contaminated water for production
The News International
Rawalpindi The district health department has received examination reports of samples of water taken from ice factories and locally filtered drinking water ...

Two Joplin parks closed to replace contaminated soil
Joplin Globe
Joplin has closed Parr Hill and Garvin parks because lead has been found in the soil as a result of tornado damage. Work is being done immediately to remove ...

Town Orders Summer Testing of Greenwich High Soil
The Daily Voice
More than 800 soil and groundwater samples have been taken at the fields at Greenwich High School to determine the levels of contamination, but the town ...

FSB finds abandoned batch of munitions at Altai testing range
ITAR-TASS News Agency
In existence since 1904, the ITAR-TASS News Agency is one of the world's largest international information agencies. The successor to the Soviet TASS news ...

Threat of water contamination looms large over south Mumbai
Hindustan Times
Clogged drains will cause flooding and make commute a misery in the monsoon, but more critically, they are likely to contaminate your drinking water.

Meeting to Address Plant for Weapons Destruction
WBKO
The meeting includes the Kentucky Chemical Demilitarization Citizens' Advisory Commission and Chemical Destruction Community Advisory Board. It starts at ...

Unsafe Levels of Cadmium Found in 10 Percent of China's Rice
The Epoch Times
Based on extensive research, scholars have found that cadmium, mercury, lead, and arsenic are among the most widespread heavy metal pollutants in China.

Siachen's demilitarization Pak, India Def Secretaries fail to agree ...
Pakistan Observer
Rawalpindi—Two days of high-level discussions between Indian and Pakistani defense secretaries ended with out any progress on the demilitarization of the ...

High levels of lead discovered in water at Bayshore PS
EMC Ottawa West
It's not clear how long students may have been drinking water contaminated with high levels of lead. A possible cause mentioned on the school's website was ...

Week of June 4, 2012

Decontamination around Exide plant could be lengthy, expensive 
Dallas – Fort Worth News
The Frisco
City Council voted on a plan to buy land around the Exide Technologies plant Monday night, ending a years-long battle. The cleanup process will ...

Bangladesh's toxic waters captured in photo-essay
TwoCircles.net
An estimate by Veolia Water, an international water provider, says a staggering 60 percent of the drinking water points around Bangladesh's
coastal villages are contaminated by arsenic while in the hinterland, water is a scarce resource.

Guangxi To Close 100 Heavy-Metal Processing Plants To Control 
IndianInfoline
South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is to close more than 100 of its heavy-metal processing plants, in an effort to lessen pollution. Government ...

Grim legacy of a country littered with bombs
ABC Online
OMAR finds and defuses abandoned mines and detonates unexploded cluster munitions before they can produce more casualties such as these among the men, women, and children of Afghanistan. As I studied the exhibits, my mind, I suspect as a defence ...

Africa Takes the Lead in Universalising the Convention On Cluster ...
AllAfrica.com 
The damage caused by cluster munitions used in past conflicts ... their use, when they fail to function as intended or when they are abandoned'.

EPA says demolishing 3 buildings in downtown Columbus would ...
The Republic
The Environmental Protection
Agency wants to demolish three buildings in downtown Columbus to help clean up dry cleaning chemicals that are contaminating groundwater nearby.

Oregon regulators investigate possible soil contamination
USA TODAY
Regulators are following up on a USA TODAY investigation by checking lead levels in soilin a Portland neighborhood near a former smelter.

T5 Corp. Signs Teaming Agreement with Remedial Construction..
MarketWatch
RECON is has completed over 2500 environmental remediation, geotechnical construction, and civil construction projects. These projects have ...

REGENESIS Announces New Technologies for Groundwater ...
Enhanced Online News
Environmentalleader REGENESIS (San Clemente, CA) has announced three new technologies: PetroCleanze™, Retro-Coat™, and a new, ...

State takes aim at mercury pollution
WPTV
A plan to limit mercury pollution in Florida's rivers, lakes and coastal waters faces a significant ... where high concentrations of the silvery
metal have led to advisories to limit ... Its power plants and heavy traffic contribute to the mercury problem.