The tap water in at least four Los Angeles County facilities, including two in Lancaster, has levels of contaminants such as arsenic and lead that exceed federal and state recommendations, according to a new county report released Thursday. The study by the county Department of Agricultural Commissioner/ Weights and Measures looked at the drinking water in 765 county facilities, including county jails, fire stations and wells.
A nonprofit organization that monitors the health of the Potomac River said Wednesday that a condition causing abnormalities in fish should serve as an urgent warning to rehabilitate the waterway that provides 90 percent of the D.C. area's drinking water. The Potomac Conservancy in its third annual State of the Nation's River report highlighted a number of pollutants in the Potomac River that disrupt the endocrine system in humans and in fish and contribute to a condition in which some fish exhibit both male and female traits.
Changing a stream such as Irwin Run has minimal impact on rivers and lakes, but those changes can add up in terms of discharging pollutants, Louis Kaplan, a senior research scientist at the Stroud Water Research Center in Chester County. Protecting the nation's biggest rivers and lakes depends on guarding the smallest creeks feeding them, the Environmental Protection Agency said in an argument to bolster its right to oversee headwaters.
For sociologists who came in and studied us after the spill, Cordova became a case study of what happens when a whole community of people is traumatized. We had a massive increase in PTSD in Cordova, as well as general anxiety disorder, and, of course, this trickled down to the kids. We're very tight with the children here, and we have always taught them as a community, not just as individuals. Some of these kids own fishing boats when they're 15 and 16, and it's the same thing with the native people of this region, with an emphasis on subsistence harvesting, sharing and celebrating resources. We don't have ageism in Cordova, it's a very fluid sharing of life across the generations. What the Supreme Court did was to decide that a one-to-one ratio of compensatory damages was just punishm...
...A marine biologist with a subspecialty in water pollutants, Ott received her doctorate from the Un...
This action announces the availability of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed decision identifying water quality limited segments and associated pollutants in Oregon to be listed pursuant to section 303(d)(2) of the Clean Water Act (CWA). EPA is proposing to add 1004 water quality limited segments to Oregon's 2010 Section 303(d) list. EPA solicits public comment on these proposed listings. The proposed listings, together with additional information concerning the proposed listings, are available for review on EPA's Web site.
Newhall Vice President Marlee Lauffer says that environmentalists inflated the perchlorate danger in a last-ditch attempt to stop West Creek. And on July 26, with a perchlorate treatment plan in hand and proof of additional water supplies, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved Newhall's final environmental report by a vote of 3 to 1. Lauffer expects that model West Creek homes, priced from the "mid-threes through the mid-eights," will be available for viewing by next fall. West Creek's homes are part of an ever-growing planned community based around Newhall's Valencia housing development, begun in the 1960s. While Valencia was sprouting, the nearby Whittaker-Bermite factory was producing perchlorate for Sidewinder missiles and military flares. The factory closed in 198...
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