Week of October 31

Kensington police chief: Mold in Town Hall forced him to retire
Seacoastonline.com
Employees within the building complained about health issues from the mold in 2009 and were moved into temporary trailers while the building went through environmental remediation. Perry said employees were moved back into the building after they ...

Contaminated water likely from agriculture
Herald Sun
CONTAMINANTS found in water samples from a private property in Queensland's southeast were most likely from agricultural practices, environment minister Vicky Darling has said. The Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) says the ...

Queensland says contaminated water at Cougar project likely from agriculture
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
“DERM's investigation has determined the most likely source of the contaminants was the result of recent or historical agricultural practices,” Darling said. “The department took water and soilsamples from multiple locations on the property and the ...

Crops in China Ruined By Heavy Metal Contamination
The Epoch Times
Heavy metal contamination in water and soil has led to high instances of occupational diseases and death in China. And death seems to be coming early. According to an article in the Economic Information Daily, in one cancer village that recorded six ...

23000 apartments approved for IMI's Ramat Hasharon site
Globes
An earlier report two years ago estimated the clearance and decontamination cost at NIS 2.3 billion. The report said that the Water Commission had found that the decontaminated groundwater at the site was the worst in Israel. ...

No easy fix for contaminated areas of Great Kills Park
SILive.com
She said a full investigation will determine the extent of the soil contamination inside the 488-acre park and analyze cleanup alternatives. The radiological survey and subsequent water and soil sampling should begin at the end of this year. ...

Sen. Blunt sponsors amendment for $400 million in added grant money
Joplin Globe
In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency notified city officials Tuesday that Joplin may apply for incremental funding for a cleanup in connection with any lead-contaminated soil found in the tornado zone. In a written statement, Blunt said the ...

DHEC: Contamination cleanup plan for Myrtle Beach most expensive but fastest
Myrtle Beach Sun News
AVX would have to pay the plan's estimated $5.4 million cost as well as about $72000 more to clean up surface water contamination in the neighborhood. The cleanup costs are in today's dollars and do not account for inflation. ...

State Plans to Remediate, Convert Greystone Park
Patch.com
The plan anticipates the demolition of dilapidated existing buildings, environmental remediationand the conversion of the properties to open space, operated by the Morris County park system. An integral part of this plan, led and developed by the ...

Toxic Bronx School reported hundreds of sick kids
New York Daily News
They also say they had no indication of environmental problems at the school. They only conducted air quality tests earlier this year because the building's lease was up for renewal. “Some principals enforce a policy of every complaint, ...

Week of October 24

Amazon Defense Coalition: Chevron's Ecuador Environmental Problems Pose Risks ...
PR Newswire (press release)
In a segment titled "The Amazon's Toxic Mess," reporter Mike Monro noted: "While Chevron is establishing its environmental credentials in Australia, in the Amazon it's fighting hard ball to avoid paying billions to clean up this toxic catastrophe. ...

Toxic Waste To Remain At Stimson Mill Site
NBC Montana
Environmental cleanup at Stimson's mill site in Bonner is winding down and potential buyers are negotiating details for a possible sale. But the Montana Department of Environmental Quality is still trying to get rid of 37 thousand cubic yards of ...

Decades later, cleanup continues at naval base
Boston.com
The Navy is in charge of the environmental remediation efforts, the Department of Defense is funding the cleanup, and the EPA acts as the lead regulatory agency. The Restoration Advisory Board continues to hold meetings and discuss cleanup efforts at ...

EPA plans Woonasquatucket cleanup
Providence Eyewitness News
Minimizing contribution of site contaminants to Woonasquatucket River's surface water. The agency has recommended the approximately 120000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and sediment would be disposed of in an Upland Confined Disposal Facility. ...

Careless disposal of antibiotics can create aquatic superbugs
HealthCanal.com
The Ann Arbor wastewater plant recently installed technology that enhances the removal of bio-solids from the water, which in turn, will help prevent superbugs from forming. People with unused antibiotics should not flush them down the toilet but ...

Erin Brockovich speaks to DeLand about water woes
Daytona Beach News-Journal
Brockovich, who was asked to come by country club resident Earl Ziebarth, vowed Monday to help the residents, saying she is "disturbed" about widespread water contamination in communities like DeLand. "We've got to get busy cleaning this aquifer and ...

Mine toxins threaten families
The Financial Gazette
AT LEAST 6?000 families in decommissioned mines across the country are in danger of contracting diseases as toxic chemicals from abandoned shafts have contaminated their water sources and theenvironment, a new report has indicated. ...

High toxic levels found at school, market neighboring informal e-waste salvage ...
EurekAlert (press release)
... Interpol, academics, policy makers, civil servants and NGO leaders. Encourage recovery of critical metals worldwide, through socially and environmentally sustainable recycling. Maximise the collection of devices and the recovery of critical metals. ...

Many people uneasy about soil disposal plan
The Daily Yomiuri
Some local people have expressed relief that decontamination will continue, while others are adamantly opposed to having a storage facility built in their hometown. Many are bewildered as to why contaminated soil and waste must be stored for as long as ...

Raymark Contamination
Ct Post
Photo: Christian Abraham / Connecticut Post | Buy This Photo The waterfront colonial at 348 Housatonic Ave. is one of more than 100 Stratford homes built above a pool of contaminatedgroundwater. But unlike most homes here, this house is not equipped ...

 
Week of October 17
 
Cache of munitions destroyed
Famagusta Gazette
A large cache of munitions which had been stored for the past 20 years at an army camp in Palodia have been destroyed. Αnother large cache of munitions will be transferred to a specially constructed storage area until they can be destroyed. ...

Scottsdale groundwater cleanup will take decades, officials say
AZ Central.com
The report comes at the same time as an assessment by the Environmental Protection Agency that characterizes TCE as a carcinogen and non-cancer human health hazard. The assessment could affect the cleanup methods at the more than 760 Superfund sites ..

Six Miles Offshore: The Wreck Of Montebello
NPR
The NOAA established a Remediation of Underwater Legacy Environmental Threats (RULET) Database to track and categorize shipwrecks, and areas of high priority and concern. A task force is evaluating the risk posed by a sunken oil tanker, ...

Kenosha Chrysler plant may be razed
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Taxpayers would be stuck with millions of dollars in environmental remediation costs, but if the plan goes as expected, the City of Kenosha would own the site that someday could be used for residential or commercial purposes. ...

Handicap International prepares to launch demining actions in Tripoli
Reuters AlertNet
Over the coming weeks, demining teams will begin clearing land that has been littered by landmines and explosive remnants of war (shells, munitions, rockets, etc.). These devices pose a serious threat to the civilian population, especially those people ...

Canada will support Libya in quest for democracy
CTV.ca
... known for its humanitarian assistance to beleaguered countries, would offer help to Libya on both the democratization and the demilitarization fronts. ...

Noise law passes; sewer estimates shrink
The Keene Sentinel
Keene's City Council received updates on two long-term projects Thursday: environmental remediation work to remove coal tar deposits from the Ashuelot River, and the plans to upgrade the city's wastewater treatment plant. The council also voted a new ...

Bulgarian Authorities Bust 2 for Arms Dump Explosives Theft
Novinite.com
Three years ago, the Chelopechene disposal depot, storing tons of obsolete munitionsoutside Sofia was rocked by a series of powerful explosions, shaking apartment buildings and panicking thousands. Around 7 am on July 3, 2008 the Bulgarian capital

Exxon Mobil signs consent order to remediate Duffy property near Lighthouse ...
WatertownDailyTimes.com
But with a DEC consent order signed in September by Clifford L. Pearson, Exxon Mobilenvironmental services manager, Ms. Hassett said, parameters are laid out for what her company must do to remediate the site, which Exxon Mobil and its corporate ...

Senate Bill Kills Coal Ash Cleanup Efforts
eNews Park Forest
“Those who will pay the greatest price aren't the polluter who would have to clean up their mess, it's the communities and families living near these toxic dumps,” states Evans. EPA inspectors found fault with the three significant-hazard coal ash ...

Week of October 10
 
Avoiding tragedy: NATO and Ukraine destroy aging weapons and ammunition
defpro
Without proper maintenance and storage, the munitions' components deteriorate and become highly unstable. Since October 2003, ten unplanned explosions at munition sites were reported in the country. In 2003, a spark from welding work near a depot in ...

Gorham to weigh waste-site proposal
Press Herald
The waste presents the risk of serious environmental degradation but is not bad enough to qualify for state or federal funding for hazardous waste cleanup, ...

Iran for Caspian region demilitarization
Trend News Agency
Demilitarization of the Caspian region is also important issue." Convention on Security in the Caspian Sea was signed during the Third Summit of Caspian ...

NATO Panel Urges Nations To Eradicate All Chemical Arms
Global Security Newswire
... an effort by Russia to substitute the call for the three nations to complete chemicaldemilitarization operations "in due time" with the word "soon. ...

Lebanon: victims support global cluster munition ban
ICRC (press release)
Cluster bomb survivors came to Beirut from the four corners of the globe to drum up international support for the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) banning the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of these weapons. ...

US Steel reports progress on benzene remediation
Post-Tribune
Another major plan is a 2012 ecological risk assessment of the effect of the Benzene plume and other toxins on the environment and US Steel's remediation efforts. If the company's corrective action has worked, the tactics may be used to address ...

Damage from oil spill may last decades
Stuff.co.nz
LONG JOB: Volunteers help clean up the oil from the beach at Mt Maunganui. ... fears that containers may fall off the ship, causing a navigational hazard. ...

Concerns linger over cleanup at old air base
Boston Globe
The Navy has been in charge of the environmental remediation efforts, and the cleanup is ongoing. (The Department of Defense is funding the cleanup, and the EPA is the lead regulatory agency.) Weymouth Town Councilor Brian McDonald said he wants the ...

Federal government agrees to clean up Scotia Navy Depot
WRGB
The General Services Administration has signed a Federal Facility Side Remediation agreement with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, which says the government is now responsible for cleaning up the environmental issues caused ...

Hidden hazard: Underground oil tanks carry risk of leaks
NorthJersey.com
But if it has leaked oil, cleanup costs can run into the tens of thousands. That's what happened to the Schottenfelds, whose tank leaked oil into their neighbor's property as well as their own. Tests found that the leaks probably started 25 to 30 years ...

 
Week of October 3
 
President receives Commission report on Mari blast
Famagusta Gazette
Following the blast at the naval base ''Evangelos Florakis'' at Mari, on July 11, the government appointed a Commission of Inquiry, headed by lawyer Polis Polyviou, to investigate the circumstances that led to the massive explosion of munitions, ...

Cypriot President Rejects Blame for Deadly Munitions Blast
Voice of America (blog)
Cyprus President Demitris Christofias is rejecting an official report that he is personally responsible for the July 11th munitions blast at a military base, killing 13 people. The report released Monday says the stored gunpowder and other explosives ...

WWII Era Home Guard Grenade Cache Uncovered
Wick, United Kingdom A crew digging a hole for a new flag pole near the foundation of a building uncovered a cache of unexpended WWII era hand grenades. The police were called to respond to the find. The police identified the grenades as 1940s era No 76 incendiary grenades. The No. 76 grenades consisted of a glass bottle with a metal stopper, filled with benzene, water, white phosphorous, and a dissolved rubber-based compound to make the liquid sticky.

HONDURAS: PUTTING DEFENSE IN THE HANDS OF CIVILIANS
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
Sociologist Leticia Salomon, an expert on military and security issues, said the main challenge is the demilitarization of the country. ...

HESCO Introduces New 2012 Force Protection Barriers at AUSA
MarketWatch
... environmentally responsible, and to be more cost-effective during the demilitarization stage of the mission," said Jake McQueen, Sales Manager at HESCO. ...

Navy's cleanup plans questioned as deadline for Southfield deal nears
Boston Herald
“The Town needs the intercession of your offices so that this transaction specifically includes as a condition, the Navy's environmental remediation requirements to standards that comply with the Reuse plan that this community so strongly supported,” ...

EPA to start cleanup on Elmwood property
Leelanau Enterprise
Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials hosted an open house at the Township Hall on Tuesday evening to answer questions from the public about the renewed environmental“remediation project.” About 25 people attended the open house ...

Navy to sweep Sheppey coast after 26 active bombs found in 8 days
Kent and Sussex Courier
The munitions discovery – containing enough explosives to sink a fleet of fishing boats – is thought to be the largest ever reported on the island. Sheppey Coastguard rescue officer Ian Goodwin says in his 20 years' service, the haul is the largest he ...

Germany / The Federal Foreign Office supports the destruction of landmines in ...
StarAfrica.com
This applies in particular to the securing of arms, munitions and to the remnants of munitions, landmines and other explosives left behind after the conflict. The Federal Office is therefore making available approximately 291000 euro for a project to ...

Cape Canaveral continues cleanup efforts
Air Force Link
"This often results in the use of innovative solutions and a reduction in overall program-management costs, while accelerating environmental remediation and site completion," Knippel said. Yonkers set a goal for accelerated completion of 50 percent of ...