Preston Mulligan has been a reporter in the Maritimes for more than 20 years.
Court documents show 13 plaintiffs claim the town was negligent in its management of the site "in a matter that has caused pollution and environmental damage to ground and surface water, soil and aquatic life."
Was a sawmill tank drained properly?
In the court documents, the plaintiffs say the source of the contamination comes from the old 246,000-litre dip tank on the sawmill site.
Councillor Clifford Hood, chair of the town’s water utility, said while there may be contamination on the old sawmill site, he doesn’t believe it’s spreading to neighbouring properties "Our position is that we have not caused any of the allegations that are being made by those plaintiffs," said Hood.
Contamination ‘not moving’: councillor The community’s fear of contamination began to grow last year when the town spread garbage-filled compost over the former sawmill site.
But residents saw trash in the compost in early 2016 and complained.
They determined the compost wasn’t a source of contamination.
They also allege the contamination on the sawmill site made its way into the well water of three of the plaintiffs listed.
According to the court documents, several of the plaintiffs received a notice from the town in June of 2016 indicating that "contamination is known or suspected to directly impact surface water or sediment on the plaintiffs properties."

Government Report Continues to Target Yongsan Garrison As Source Ground Water Pollution.
What would be an interesting piece of information is what is the pollution to the ground water in other areas of Seoul around Yongsan Garrison?
I find it hard to believe that Yongsan is the only place in Seoul with polluted ground water: A contaminant detected in groundwater beneath a U.S.
Forces Korea (USFK) garrison in Seoul was above the permissible level, a government report showed Tuesday.
The U.S. Army base in Yongsan, central Seoul, has long been suspected as the source of oil that has contaminated the nearby water and land.
The Seoul Metropolitan Government has been conducting a purification project since 2001, but petroleum-based contaminants above the standard level have continued to be detected in water near the base.
According to a joint probe conducted by the environment ministry and the USFK in May 2015, 2.440 milligrams per liter of benzene was found at an observation well at the base, which is 162 times higher than the allowable level of 0.015 milligrams per liter.
Among 14 monitoring wells of 15 to 20 centimeters in diameter, four had benzene levels some 20 to 162 times higher than the standard, the report showed.
A total of seven wells showed above standard levels of benzenes.
[Yonhap] You can read more at the link, but this pollution issue has long been one that South Korean leftists have used to stoke anti-US sentiment and the Korean government uses to get additional money out of USFK for clean up expenses which according to the SOFA they don’t have to pay.

Controlling antimicrobial contamination of soil and water with bacteria.
Now, a new study at the University of Nevada, Reno has found a potential way to reduce the presence of the antimicrobial that is also linked to problems with antibiotic resistance.
"The results are promising that we gained better understanding about how triclosan is degraded in natural environment, and can potentially find a way of removing the contaminant from the environment and in the long term fighting the antibiotic resistance problem," Yu "Frank" Yang, assistant professor of environmental engineering at the University, said.
Yang and his team’s research on how to reduce the presence of triclosan in the environment was recognized among Emerging Investigator Series by the journal "Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts," a publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and published in the April edition as the inside front-cover story.
The article describes how the triclosan, used for things like hand sanitizer, detergents, soaps and paints, can be degraded faster in the environment through a process with a combination of metal-reducing bacterium and natural organic matter.
"If we can completely understand the degradation of antimicrobial agent, we can provide a treatment process in engineered and natural environments."
The team tested the matrix of a bacteria strain mixed with the organic material to find the condition that degraded triclosan the fastest.
"Both are challenging tasks."
His paper is part of their 2017 "Emerging Investigator Series" which highlights "the best and brightest early career scientists in the environmental chemical sciences.” The journal website explains the "Emerging Investigator" distinction “showcases the high quality research being carried out by researchers in the early stages of their independent careers.
He has been at the University of Nevada, Reno since September 2013 as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

CONCORD, N.H. — Dartmouth College has reached a settlement with a family that said they suffered health problems from drinking well water contaminated by runoff from a site where the Ivy League school once dumped animals used in science experiments.
"This will allow the Higginses to move on with their lives in a new location," college spokeswoman Diana Lawrence said, adding that details of the settlement remain confidential.
A nearby site also contained remains of human cadavers and stillborn fetuses used in medical classes.
One of the chemicals used in the experiments, a suspected carcinogen called 1,4-dioxane, leaked into the groundwater around the site — contaminating the Higgins family well and raising fears that property values in the area had been affected.
The chemical has been linked to eye, nose and throat irritation and, in long-term exposure, to liver and kidney damage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Even their dogs were not spared, they said, with one urinating blood and another vomiting.
"This is a settlement that takes care of everything," he told VPR on Tuesday.
"It takes care of any future health issues, it takes care of the emotional distress, it’s A to Z."
If any of the 48 eligible homeowners want to sell, the college said it would make up the difference between the sale and the fair market value of the home or buy the property outright.
It completed construction in January on a system at the dump site to capture and clean contaminated water.

Water boil advisory issued for Moundridge.
The city of Moundridge has issued a boil water advisory for the city public water supply in McPherson County.
City officials issued the advisory because of a loss of pressure in the system.
Moundridge schools will be closed Wednesday due to the boil water advisory, according to the district’s Facebook page.
Residents should observe the following precautions until further notice: Boil water for one minute prior to drinking or food preparation, or use bottled water.
Dispose of ice cubes and do not use ice from a household automatic icemaker.
Disinfect dishes and other food contact surfaces by immersion for at least one minute in clean tap water that contains one teaspoon of unscented household bleach per gallon of water.
Water used for bathing does not generally need to be boiled.
Persons with cuts or severe rashes may consult their physicians.
If your tap water appears dirty, flush the water lines by letting the water run until it clears.

Banned chemicals contaminate groundwater near US bases on Okinawa.
The Pentagon won’t let Okinawan officials on base to investigate.
The carcinogenics perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) were found in high concentrations in underground water during surveys in August and January, the Okinawa prefectural government’s environmental protection department said in a statement.
Despite the ban, though, the chemicals have been discovered near both Futenma and Kadena Air Base, also on Okinawa.
The three locations had 1.3, 0.21 and 0.71 micrograms respectively, and were all adjacent to and downstream from Kadena.
“We received a [ministry] response that the military handles the agents appropriately and that they see no need to conduct the proposed survey.” Despite the presence of the chemicals in groundwater, water remains safe to drink, according to a spokesman from Ginowan City’s water bureau.
The Chatan Water Treatment Plant serves both Kadena and the surrounding areas.
Around the same time that PFOS and PFOA were discovered in the groundwater downstream of Kadena, the Air Force announced it would switch to an "environmentally responsible" foam used to extinguish fires because the acids were detected at current and former military bases where firefighting training exercises have been conducted in the US.
In June 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs awarded disability payments to some US veterans who were exposed to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.
However, the US government has not compensated Vietnamese citizens who were affected by the poison, or the following generations that are still dealing with the consequences.

Oil drilling plans in Stoughton could pose ‘an unacceptable risk’ to a public water supply, according to the Environment Agency.
The Bedhampton and Havant springs provide water to 34 per cent of people in the area managed by Portsmouth Water, which supplies Chichester, Bognor and a significant region of the South Downs.
Controversy over the plans for exploratory oil wells in Markwells Wood has centred around contamination risks to the water source for several months.
Applicant UK Oil and Gas said drilling would be safe and issued fresh documentation earlier this year in response to concerns.
But the EA’s second report found the revised information was still insufficient and urged the ‘precautionary principle’ to protect and manage the water source.
“Further evidence based assessment of the hydrogeology at the Markwells Wood site is needed to show potential risks have been identified and understood.” Around 2,000 objections have been made to the plans ,including campaign group Markwells Wood Watch, which crowdfunded its own hydrogeological report last month.
The group is now putting pressure on the EA to change the status of the area around Markwells Wood to a Source Protection Zone 1, a level that would prohibit all drilling.
It is hoped a refusal at the site, which falls within the South Downs National Park, would set a precedent in the area.
“Oil production in this area is simply too risky.” What do you think?
Send your view to letters@chiobserver.co.uk

State officials identified Saint-Gobain’s Merrimack facility, along with sister production sites in New York and Vermont, as sources of chemical contamination of household wells and public drinking water supplies.
James Brindle, a Defense Department spokesman, told Circle of Blue that the department does not yet have cleanup cost figures that it can release publicly.
And the agency worked with industry to phase out production of PFOA and PFOS.
Without national standards “it will remain unnecessarily difficult for drinking water suppliers, owners of contaminated land, and others concerned about the potential public health consequences of PFASs to address the sources of PFAS contamination and recover cleanup costs from responsible parties.” In the absence of federal rules, state leaders are on their own to set standards.
From 2006 to 2016 the state tested more than 1,000 water samples from 80 public water systems.
Still, only now is the state acting — and the regulations affect drinking water providers not the chemical manufacturers.
But state tests found the well exceeded the 70 parts per trillion standard for PFOA and PFOS, as did three private wells in the neighborhood.
Other wells near the Kingston fire station showed hundreds of parts per trillion of unregulated PFAS compounds, Kernen said.
At another site, near a car wash, testing of a monitoring well showed more than 9,000 parts per trillion of unregulated PFAS compounds.
Some 500 homes whose wells were polluted were connected to a public water system.

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