October 28, 2008 - BROCKTON - Some residents are reporting they smelled oil around storm drains in a West Side neighborhood for several weeks before a “severe” oil spill was discovered on Sunday, officials said.
Extensive cleanup operations continued Monday to remove the hundreds of gallons of home heating oil that contaminated West Meadow Brook and bordering wetlands.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Oregon State Anthropologist studies lives of people living over toxic plume in Endicott, NY
October 29, 2008 - An anthropologist from Oregon State University is studying the lives of people living over Endicott's Toxic Plume. One-time Endicott resident Peter Little is studying how people who still live in the village are coping with vapor intrusion from polluted groundwater.
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Number of lead-contaminated yards climbs in Omaha
October 28, 2008 - The toll for Omaha's lead-contaminated yards continues to climb.
The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed spending an additional $255 million and cleaning up about 10,000 more yards in eastern Omaha. The work could take another 10 years.
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The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed spending an additional $255 million and cleaning up about 10,000 more yards in eastern Omaha. The work could take another 10 years.
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PCE still a concern in Terre Haute, Indiana
October 28, 2008 - First, James A. Horrall learned he had high levels of perchloroethylene (an industrial solvent) in his well water.
Now, the Edgebrook subdivision resident is being told PCE vapors are in his home.
Standard Register already has paid to connect his residence to Indiana-American Water Co., and now, the company says it will install a vapor mitigation system in his home — as well as two other Edgebrook residences — that tested above recommended thresholds for PCE during recent air sampling.
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Now, the Edgebrook subdivision resident is being told PCE vapors are in his home.
Standard Register already has paid to connect his residence to Indiana-American Water Co., and now, the company says it will install a vapor mitigation system in his home — as well as two other Edgebrook residences — that tested above recommended thresholds for PCE during recent air sampling.
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Green living tips: Environmental property screening service
October 28, 2008 - How often have we seen in the news where unsuspecting property buyers purchase a house only to find that it's sitting on top of toxic waste or there are toxic waste sources close by. If you're on the hunt to buy a house, it's certainly worth your while investigating this aspect thoroughly.
The EDR GreenScreener identifies five types of environmental concerns that may exist in the area around a property.
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The EDR GreenScreener identifies five types of environmental concerns that may exist in the area around a property.
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Century old gas plant left a tainted legacy in Adirondacks
October 27, 2008 - The state Department of Environmental Conservation is investigating a site on Payeville Road for century-old environmental contamination that spreads down Brandy Brook into Lake Flower, which is the village of Saranac Lake's emergency water source.
The one-acre Payeville Road site was once home to the Saranac Lake Gas Company and is one of hundreds of former manufactured gas plants across the state being investigated by the DEC for possible environmental contamination.
From the late 1800s to about the 1940s, the plant used coal to manufacture light gas for the village of Saranac Lake.
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The one-acre Payeville Road site was once home to the Saranac Lake Gas Company and is one of hundreds of former manufactured gas plants across the state being investigated by the DEC for possible environmental contamination.
From the late 1800s to about the 1940s, the plant used coal to manufacture light gas for the village of Saranac Lake.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Ohio home near gas well on brink of explosion
October 22, 2008 - For the past 10 months, Bainbridge resident Irvin Mesmer said, he and his wife, Joanne, have been living with the uncertainty of whether they will ever have safe drinking water.
They live on Scotland Drive, near where an Ohio Valley Energy gas and oil well leaked methane gas last December into the aquifer. That leak was cited in the explosion of Richard and Thelma Payne's home on English Drive and in the contamination of water wells in the area.
On Oct. 15, another possible explosion was narrowly averted at the Mesmers' house.
Toxic plume spurs study of public health in Colorado
October 18, 2008 - The federal government has begun a required but long-delayed comprehensive review of public health in Cañon City as newly found toxic pollution spreads from a shuttered uranium mill.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry launched the review in response to new data and community concerns that pollution may contribute to unexplained ailments including cancer, miscarriages and neurological problems.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry launched the review in response to new data and community concerns that pollution may contribute to unexplained ailments including cancer, miscarriages and neurological problems.
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Pennsylvania residents hear advice on tainted well water
October 15, 2008 - Lenny Siegel, executive director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight, warned residents about the possibility of toxic vapor intrusion into their homes and recommended they push officials to put the former Foster Wheeler site in Crestwood Industrial Park on the national Superfund list.
Contamination of trichloroethylene, which studies show probably causes cancer, was identified in the late 1980s and treated at the pressure boiler-manufacturing plant that stopped production in 1984. But the degreasing chemical wasn’t noticed in several dozen residential wells along Church Road until the company stumbled across it during tests in 2004.
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Contamination of trichloroethylene, which studies show probably causes cancer, was identified in the late 1980s and treated at the pressure boiler-manufacturing plant that stopped production in 1984. But the degreasing chemical wasn’t noticed in several dozen residential wells along Church Road until the company stumbled across it during tests in 2004.
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Two Michigan homes demolished due to contaminated soil; four more to be razed
October 14, 2008 - Like a warm smile with a sudden gap, a pleasant Muskegon Township neighborhood lost two of its oldest homes Monday -- doomed to demolition by a lingering legacy of oil in the soil.
Four more homes in the neighborhood will crash into splinters in coming days.
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Four more homes in the neighborhood will crash into splinters in coming days.
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
Nevada residents Taking Chemical Cleanup Into Their Own Hands
October 17, 2008 - It's a potentially dangerous chemical living right underneath dozens of homes, and so far no one responsible has cleaned it up. For years, Eyewitness News has been following the case of that plume in the Paradise Palms neighborhood. Friday, neighbors decided to take control of the fight.
The state says there are chemicals in the groundwater that could cause liver and kidney damage. The neighbors say their property values have bottomed out and the people responsible are either nowhere to be found, or they're pointing fingers at everyone else.
The state says there are chemicals in the groundwater that could cause liver and kidney damage. The neighbors say their property values have bottomed out and the people responsible are either nowhere to be found, or they're pointing fingers at everyone else.
"You can't smell it, you can't touch it, you can't taste it, you can't feel it," said Pete Voggenthaler.
He's talking about perchloroethylene, or PCE, the human-created chemical that has seeped into the groundwater for at least eight years. Once it evaporates it becomes a vapor that get inside people's homes, and it got there from Al Phillips Cleaners, now bankrupt and bulldozed.
Pennsylvania residents urged to demand action on TCE spill
October 15, 2008 - Residents affected by the trichloroethylene contamination on Church Road need to educate themselves and demand the Environmental Protection Agency give their case a higher priority, according to the director of an organization that advocates public participation in environmental contamination cases.
Lenny Siegel, executive director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight in California, spoke to residents Tuesday about the need to get the Church Road site listed on the National Priorities List, as well as keeping up-to-date about TCE contaminations and what the EPA is doing to clean up the site.
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Lenny Siegel, executive director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight in California, spoke to residents Tuesday about the need to get the Church Road site listed on the National Priorities List, as well as keeping up-to-date about TCE contaminations and what the EPA is doing to clean up the site.
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Are you living in a former meth lab?
October 12, 2008 - Jason Dowdell and Michelle DiLorenzo thought the three-bedroom ranch along a quiet, winding Jefferson County road would be the perfect place to start their life together.
They envisioned a nursery in one bedroom. Toys in the backyard. Perennials in the planters.
But all that was put on hold two years later when they learned the home was contaminated with enough methamphetamine residue to be condemned in more than a dozen states.
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They envisioned a nursery in one bedroom. Toys in the backyard. Perennials in the planters.
But all that was put on hold two years later when they learned the home was contaminated with enough methamphetamine residue to be condemned in more than a dozen states.
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