Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
Brian Kahn, whose home on Garden Road is just east of the landfill, said he "is finally glad to see that (the municipal water) is coming through."
His family, along with several of his neighbors, have been provided bottled water from the village of Milford and Milford Township for the past few years because of the contamination.
Complaints surfaced at a hearing in Roswell (Tuesday) over the Bush administration's proposed Global Nuclear Energy Partnership program, or GNEP.
But when environmental lawyer Bob Guild asked to see the documents one day five years ago, state regulators only gave him a thin folder.
Landfill operator Chem-Nuclear had persuaded regulators to withhold many of the files, arguing the information included trade secrets. Without the records, Guild lost a court case that could have forced tougher disposal practices at the 37-year-old landfill.
Methamphetamine use is a problem we've been dealing with for years now, but the bigger problem may be meth labs. New methods allow meth labs to pop up anywhere and disappear overnight, and what gets left behind is a major health hazard.
The EPA action was prompted by a series of Yakima Herald-Republic stories published last month about the failure to remedy -- or even examine -- long-standing problems of nitrates contaminating small private wells.
The stories showed how local, state and federal agencies virtually ignored a study six years ago that found one in five of 195 wells tested outside five Lower Valley communities contained nitrates in excess of federal safety limits.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency has set a cleanup plan for the South Minneapolis Residential Soil Contamination Superfund site, which is contaminated with varying levels of arsenic from the former CMC Heartland company that produced and distributed pesticides and herbicides at the epicenter of the 1,480-acre area between 1938 and 1963.
The pollution was discovered in 2004. By the end of this year, the EPA will have cleaned up almost 200 properties.About 110 residents filled pews at Victor United Methodist Church Oct. 30 to hear plans and to fill out comment sheets to be filed with a federal grant application by Nov. 14.
An EPA-funded site assessment found contamination at the site, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, arsenic, which may or may not be higher than naturally occurring levels, and limited amounts of lead and PCBs, Jeter said.
