April 30, 2008 - About 25 percent of the private drinking water wells tested recently in and around the Baker Subdivision east of Grand Island showed contamination above the safe drinking water standard.
The highest levels of contamination were found just east of Gunbarrel Road and around McMartin Avenue, said Brenda Mainwaring, director of public affairs for Union Pacific Railroad.A total of 109 wells were tested. Results were released Wednesday.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
Friday, May 30, 2008
Minnesota Looks At Underground Gas Tanks
April 27, 2008 - In the mysterious underground lairs of your local gas station, leaking storage tanks and pipes have resulted in contamination of soil and groundwater supplies.
In response, Minnesota is beginning to implement new rules to back federal legislation passed in 2005. Designed to prevent cancer-causing chemicals in gasoline from seeping into public consumption, the new guidelines could also increase the price of running a gas station, which will trickle down to the price motorists pay at the pump.
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In response, Minnesota is beginning to implement new rules to back federal legislation passed in 2005. Designed to prevent cancer-causing chemicals in gasoline from seeping into public consumption, the new guidelines could also increase the price of running a gas station, which will trickle down to the price motorists pay at the pump.
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Delaware Legislators express concern after eight cancer clusters discovered
April 27, 2008 - One cluster zone is centered in the industrial Newport-Marshallton area represented by Gilligan, a Democrat from Sherwood Park.
Though cancer can be caused by multiple factors, such as tobacco, poor nutrition and a sedentary lifestyle -- Gilligan is convinced pollution has played a major role in people contracting cancer at high rates -- in his family and across Delaware.
"The next step we need to take is, first of all, make polluters clean up what needs to be cleaned up," Gilligan said. "God only knows what is buried here. People also have to be alerted about this so they can be tested. In some cases, they may even want to move. You aren't going to raise kids here if you think they're at risk."
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Though cancer can be caused by multiple factors, such as tobacco, poor nutrition and a sedentary lifestyle -- Gilligan is convinced pollution has played a major role in people contracting cancer at high rates -- in his family and across Delaware.
"The next step we need to take is, first of all, make polluters clean up what needs to be cleaned up," Gilligan said. "God only knows what is buried here. People also have to be alerted about this so they can be tested. In some cases, they may even want to move. You aren't going to raise kids here if you think they're at risk."
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Thursday, May 8, 2008
Contaminated wells force Millville New Jersey to take action
April 22, 2008 - The city will spend more than $335,000 to extend water lines after the wells of two local households showed an above average level of contamination.
Assistant City Engineer Adolf Tarasevich said two homes tested normal, two residents did not allow their homes to be tested and one home showed a high level of trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE) and one home had a high level of TCE.
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Assistant City Engineer Adolf Tarasevich said two homes tested normal, two residents did not allow their homes to be tested and one home showed a high level of trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE) and one home had a high level of TCE.
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How Much Do Chemicals Affect Our Health?
April 25, 2008 - Philip Landrigan doesn’t look like a tough guy. With his nest of white hair and vibrant blue eyes, he seems more like an amiable country doctor than a Harvard-trained physician who has fought the world’s most powerful corporations and bullied bureaucrats to protect the public from poisonous pollutants for nearly 30 years.
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Friday, May 2, 2008
MtBE prevalent in Belknap County, New Hampshire private wells
April 20, 2008 - Private wells in Belknap County have a high rate of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl enter (MtBE), according to a recent study on MtBE prevalence in public and private wells in New Hampshire conducted by the United States Geological Survey.
The study, released earlier this year, revealed that, while MtBE has been banned in New Hampshire for more than a year, the chemical compound still lingers in low levels in public and private wells in the state.
The study revealed that MtBE well contamination is widespread, having been found in 18 percent of the public wells and nine percent of the private wells tested.
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The study, released earlier this year, revealed that, while MtBE has been banned in New Hampshire for more than a year, the chemical compound still lingers in low levels in public and private wells in the state.
The study revealed that MtBE well contamination is widespread, having been found in 18 percent of the public wells and nine percent of the private wells tested.
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Nearly 30 years later, a Texas wood-treatment facility continues to stain surrounding neighborhood
April 18, 2008 - Dennis Davis’ uncle died in his arms on New Year’s morning in 2005. Cancer had eaten away Don Hightower’s face. “He had lost his nose and the upper part of his mouth,” Davis said.
Davis began a door-to-door inquiry into the health of his community of Somerville. He discovered that almost every household in this sleepy railroad village of roughly 1,700 people, situated about halfway between Austin and Houston, was coping with premature death, cancer or birth defects.
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Davis began a door-to-door inquiry into the health of his community of Somerville. He discovered that almost every household in this sleepy railroad village of roughly 1,700 people, situated about halfway between Austin and Houston, was coping with premature death, cancer or birth defects.
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Connecticut Creek Contamination Unlikely to be Cleaned
April 24, 2008 - BRIDGEPORT, CT — A murky body of water in the East End may never be cleaned up because of contaminants from former dump sites nearby, city residents learned Wednesday.
The status of Johnson's Creek was discussed at a public meeting by the city's Office of Planning and Economic Development at the Ralphola Taylor Community Center on Central Avenue.
The meeting was called to review plans to clean up the former Mount Trashmore site at 390 Central Ave. and two other neighborhood sites. A dozen community activists attended the meeting to voice their concerns about the impact the contamination from the illegal dump and other nearby industrial properties might have had on Johnson's Creek, only yards away.
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The status of Johnson's Creek was discussed at a public meeting by the city's Office of Planning and Economic Development at the Ralphola Taylor Community Center on Central Avenue.
The meeting was called to review plans to clean up the former Mount Trashmore site at 390 Central Ave. and two other neighborhood sites. A dozen community activists attended the meeting to voice their concerns about the impact the contamination from the illegal dump and other nearby industrial properties might have had on Johnson's Creek, only yards away.
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Myrtle Beach was told of TCE in water 12 years ago
April 24, 2008 - An environmental report issued more that 12 years ago alerted Myrtle Beach officials to the possibility that trichloroethylene was polluting the city's groundwater, but the city apparently never conducted a follow-up investigation to identify the extent or source of that contamination.
City officials say they did not learn about the contamination until reading reports last year in The Sun News.
However, a 1995 study by the U.S. Geological Survey showed elevated levels of TCE in Withers Swash, a body of water on the northern edge of the contaminated neighborhood.
TCE is a degreaser that has been linked to cancer and other health problems.
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City officials say they did not learn about the contamination until reading reports last year in The Sun News.
However, a 1995 study by the U.S. Geological Survey showed elevated levels of TCE in Withers Swash, a body of water on the northern edge of the contaminated neighborhood.
TCE is a degreaser that has been linked to cancer and other health problems.
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Residents of polluted Rhode Island neighborhood settle suit
April 23, 2008 - Lawyers for dozens of residents of a polluted Tiverton neighborhood say they have agreed to settle a lawsuit brought against an energy company over contamination that turned the soil under their homes blue.
Reynolds says the settlement involves money to the property owners as well as a pledge to clean up the contaminated properties.
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Reynolds says the settlement involves money to the property owners as well as a pledge to clean up the contaminated properties.
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Thursday, May 1, 2008
Baltimore may buy and demolish 7 homes sitting on arsenic contamination
April 19, 2008 - Baltimore is proposing to condemn and buy seven homes with arsenic pollution in their yards beside contaminated Swann Park as part of a large waterfront development.
Some of the homeowners next to Swann Park say they want to get away from the polluted area for health reasons. Until it closed in 1976, the Allied Chemical pesticide factory spewed arsenic dust all over the park and neighborhood, leading to potentially higher risks of cancer, according to federal studies.
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Some of the homeowners next to Swann Park say they want to get away from the polluted area for health reasons. Until it closed in 1976, the Allied Chemical pesticide factory spewed arsenic dust all over the park and neighborhood, leading to potentially higher risks of cancer, according to federal studies.
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Is Raytheon site poisoning Florida neighborhood?
April 19, 2008 - An underground plume of toxic waste is migrating toward Boca Ciega Bay, causing alarm in residential neighborhoods west of the Tyrone area.
Numerous residents worried about contamination, health risks and property values have filed two class-action lawsuits against Raytheon Co., owner of the site where the contamination was first discovered.
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Numerous residents worried about contamination, health risks and property values have filed two class-action lawsuits against Raytheon Co., owner of the site where the contamination was first discovered.
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