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New County Study Links Groundwater Contamination With Mulching Operations
2016-02-24 16:00:00| Waste Age
27East.com A new Suffolk County Health Department study links, for the first time, groundwater contamination with mulching and composting facilities on Long Island. read more
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Groundwater Crisis Worsens Food Insecurity
2016-02-23 08:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Sijabuliso Nleya has been kept busy in the past few weeks digging up sand. He is not a sand poacher like scores of people who local district councils across the country say are digging along dry river beds for sand used in the construction of houses. "The situation is terrible," said Nleya, who owns a plot in Douglasdale, a small farming community on the outskirts of Bulawayo. Together with other men, he has been filling up dry wells and boreholes, as groundwater increasingly becomes an unforeseen...
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How climate change will affect western groundwater
2016-02-18 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: By 2050 climate change will increase the groundwater deficit even more for four economically important aquifers in the western U.S., reports a University of Arizona-led team of scientists. The new report is the first to integrate scientists' knowledge about groundwater in the U.S. West with scientific models that show how climate change will affect the region. "We wanted to know, 'What are the expectations for increases and decreases in groundwater as we go forward in this century?'" said lead...
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Casella wants to measure groundwater at Charlton homes
2016-02-17 06:35:01| Waste Management - Topix.net
CHARLTON – Casella Waste Systems, operator of the Southbridge Recycling and Disposal Park, aims to identify the direction of groundwater in a nearby neighborhood of contaminated private wells by putting data-logging pressure transducers in seven residential wells, a spokesman for the company told the Board of Health on Tuesday. The Vermont-based waste management company wants to put the transducers in the wells of Charlton homes at 54, 81, 90, 102 H Foote Road, 9 and 19 Eleanor Lane, and 190 Berry Corner Road.
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Ford to begin groundwater testing in Livonia
2016-02-09 13:36:24| Waste Management - Topix.net
"It's a chemical that we haven't used since the 80s', so it's a broken down version of that and concentrations are very low already, but per MDEQ criteria we need to figure out where it stops and figure out what we need to do from there," said John Cangany, Sustainability Communications Manager at Ford. The cleaning agent that's since been phased out of use was discovered after the plant started doing renovations in August.
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