Ludhiana Ludhiana: Once again the issues of overflowing sewers and contaminated water supply were raised during the House meeting that had continued for five hours today.
2 Gurmail Singh alleged that there were major problems of contaminated water supply and choked sewers in his ward.
No patchwork has been carried out to repair potholes as big as 3 foot long on the road for the past one year, he added.
Lok Insaaf Party councillor from Ward No.
36 Harvinder Singh Kaler said: “When will we conduct discussions on other issues as the civic body had failed to solve the problems of overflowing sewers and contaminated water supply.
Meanwhile, councillor Gurdeep Singh Neetu demanded a check on violations at "vehras".
BJP councillor from Ward No.
Mayor Balkar Singh Sandhu asked the officials to attend to the phone calls of all councillors, otherwise MC House would pass a resolution to dismiss the erring officials.
The Opposition councillors asked the Mayor to take action against such officials who ignored his instructions.
A few councillors urged House to set up street vending zones at the earliest.

Speaking at the Pentagon on Thursday, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer told reporters that he made the decision earlier this week after the Navy judged it had “exhausted our avenue of satisfaction for the claimants.” He cited three separate legal rationales — including a 2016 district court decision related to the principle of sovereign immunity, an exemption to the Federal Tort Claims Act and the Feres doctrine — for why he made the decision after his own review and at the advice of the Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, Navy General Counsel, and the Department of Justice.
Two drinking wells at Lejeune — one of the Marine Corps’ largest bases — were found to be contaminated with industrial chemicals in 1984 and 1985 before they were shuttered.
Spencer said his decision this week has “no impact” on those benefits.
One of the chemicals that contaminated drinking water at Lejeune was Trichloroethylene, more commonly known as TCE.
The chemical is used to degrease metal and is listed as a “known human carcinogen” by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Environmental Protection Agency.
For the last 20 years, more than 4,000 claims of adverse health effects related to the water contamination have been filed against the Navy “with new claims submitted literally every week,” Spencer said.
The VA has linked the following eight diseases to exposure to the contaminants in Lejeune’s water supply during that 34-year period: adult leukemia, aplastic anemia and other myelodysplastic syndromes, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer, multiple myeloma, Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Parkinson’s disease.
“This is a difficult decision to be very frank with you,” Spencer said, adding, “This is not a happy outcome but it is fact that we had to decide on to move on.” The secretary emphasized that service members and veterans affected by the water contamination receive healthcare and disability benefits and that they can now seek other remedies through congressional action.
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KARACHI – Sindh Minister for Health Dr Azra Fazal Pechuho has said that typhoid has consistently been spreading in the province owing to contaminated water, fearing that the situation could become worst if not controlled.
Replying queries during question hour in Sindh Assembly, Dr Azra said that water distribution system was very old and not up to the mark as sewerage water gets mixed with drinking water due to which typhoid and other diseases were spreading.
The provincial government is taking several measures for provision of clean water to the people but there is need to a lot more” .When asked about the measures being taken by the department to fight against Typhoid, Dr Azra informed that ‘Polysaccharide’ vaccination was done through child survival program to the eligible children as well as conjugate Typhoid vaccine campaign was being carried out in affected areas of district Hyderabad through collaboration with Aga Khan University Hospital.
Training plan for the mass vaccination has been completed for Karachi, while it is in process in other parts of the Province,” she added.
“We don’t want to create panic until obtain required number of dosage.
‘Seven died of Naegleria’ The Health Minister informed that seven people died of Naegleria Fowleri Infection (NFI) across the province.
“Naegleria can only be prevented through chlorination of water and other measures for leak proof supply of water,” said Azra.
The minister was of the view that the role of health department was very limited as it could only impart health education, conduct public awareness sessions through print and electronic media for maintaining hygiene and to share the chlorination of water status with KW&SB for taking pre-emptive measures so as to avoid deaths due to NFI.
However, she added that they constituted a focal group to formulate strategy for control of NFI for water sampling and testing from pumping stations, reservoirs of KW&SB, monitoring of swimming pools of hotels, farm houses and recreational water parks for assessing chlorination status and its functional system.
“24000 chlorine tablets were distributed among the affected community to prevent water borne diseases,” she added.

Ashley Brandson Martha Troian APTN News While the Liberal government says progress has been made on a campaign pledge to end long term drinking water advisories in First Nations communities, some of those communities say they’ve since lost count of how many times they’ve been under short term advisories.
The latest First Nation community to have its long-term drinking water advisory lifted is Weenusk First Nation in Ontario as of late last year.
Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba is just one community that has been under a short-term advisory since December 6, 2018, affecting up to 5000 people.
“It’s a boil water advisory, so we can’t drink right from the tap, we have to boil our water just like many other communities in the north,” said Chief Eric Redhead.
It’s just unacceptable to live that way.” Redhead says Shamattawa First Nation came off a long-term drinking water advisory approximately two years ago, but it has since been placed under a string of short-term drinking water advisories.
Redhead said he lost count how many times the community has been on a drinking water advisory since 2016.
David Trout, the community’s water treatment plant operator agrees with Redhead.
A spokesperson with the department says some communities will face recurrent short term advisories but continues to support “First Nations-led approaches to addressing new and ongoing drinking water advisories.” Unclear whether drinking water advisories data collected by government While Indigenous Services displays the number of water-related advisories on its website, it’s difficult to determine if that is the whole picture.
When asked whether or not the department collects data on water and wastewater management, including short-term and long-term drinking water advisories, APTN News was informed repeatedly First Nation communities are owners and operators of this infrastructure, including its own data and that it is up to the community to share this information with the department.
APTN asked the community of Shamattawa if they are collecting their own data and whether OCAP is being implemented.

Ashley Brandson Martha Troian APTN News While the Liberal government says progress has been made on a campaign pledge to end long term drinking water advisories in First Nations communities, some of those communities say they’ve since lost count of how many times they’ve been under short term advisories.
The latest First Nation community to have its long-term drinking water advisory lifted is Weenusk First Nation in Ontario as of late last year.
Shamattawa First Nation in Manitoba is just one community that has been under a short-term advisory since December 6, 2018, affecting up to 5000 people.
“It’s a boil water advisory, so we can’t drink right from the tap, we have to boil our water just like many other communities in the north,” said Chief Eric Redhead.
It’s just unacceptable to live that way.” Redhead says Shamattawa First Nation came off a long-term drinking water advisory approximately two years ago, but it has since been placed under a string of short-term drinking water advisories.
Redhead said he lost count how many times the community has been on a drinking water advisory since 2016.
David Trout, the community’s water treatment plant operator agrees with Redhead.
A spokesperson with the department says some communities will face recurrent short term advisories but continues to support “First Nations-led approaches to addressing new and ongoing drinking water advisories.” Unclear whether drinking water advisories data collected by government While Indigenous Services displays the number of water-related advisories on its website, it’s difficult to determine if that is the whole picture.
When asked whether or not the department collects data on water and wastewater management, including short-term and long-term drinking water advisories, APTN News was informed repeatedly First Nation communities are owners and operators of this infrastructure, including its own data and that it is up to the community to share this information with the department.
APTN asked the community of Shamattawa if they are collecting their own data and whether OCAP is being implemented.

The company in charge of decommissioning a nuclear power plant in Genoa says it has found the source of radioactive groundwater discovered last year and that the contamination did not affect drinking water or the nearby Mississippi River.
LaCrosseSolutions, a subsidiary of the nuclear waste disposal company EnergySolutions, in March reported elevated levels of tritium in a monitoring well at Dairyland Power Cooperative’s La Crosse Boiling Water Reactor (LACBWR), the state’s first nuclear power plant to undergo decommissioning.
Records show that tritium levels spiked in December 2017 in water samples taken about 25 feet below the ground.
A sample from Feb. 1 registered 24,200 picocuries per liter, just below the Environmental Protection Agency’s limit for drinking water.
According to a report filed earlier this month with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the environmental consulting firm Haley & Aldrich traced the contamination to an exhaust vent installed in the former reactor building as part of the demolition.
The vent was just above a pit of stormwater and melted snow.
EnergySolutions spokesman Mark Walker said tritium was released into the air inside the reactor building as concrete was broken into smaller pieces.
A radioactive isotope of hydrogen, tritium bonds with airborne water molecules.
According to the report, water vapor from inside the plant condensed as it reached the outside air and combined with the runoff, which found its way into a shallow aquifer.
+3 Dairyland contracted with EnergySolutions in 2016 to remove the remaining buildings and transferred the site license to the Salt Lake City-based company, which used a similar license arrangement in decommissioning the Zion Nuclear Power Station near Chicago.

The fire college trained using that foam for years.
“They said it’s very unlikely you’re going to get cancer.
No one knows,” Flores said.
Flores’ is one of five residential wells that tested above the maximum level allowed in drinking water by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Tests on the well in August and September showed elevated levels of the compounds, also referred to as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
After the college well tested above the limits, the Florida Department of Health in Marion County began contacting nearby residents and businesses to ask for permission to test their wells.
I’ve been there for over 30 years and drink the water every day,” she said.
“We all have issues, but I don’t know if anything is related to the water,” Lawson said.
He said DOH personnel try to contact residents in person, by leaving door hangers and through the mail.
Concerns over PFAS are nothing new.

For at least 35 years, people who lived and worked on Camp Lejeune were drinking dangerously contaminated water.
The chemicals came from leaking fuel tanks, an off-base dry cleaning business and quite possibly other sources as well.
Ingestion of those substances is dangerous and can produce a host of severe illnesses, including leukemia, aplastic anemias, bladder cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer, multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and Parkinson’s disease.
And indeed, thousands of former service members and base civilians have developed those illnesses and others that may be related to the water contamination.
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said last week that at least 4,400 claims totaling $963 billion have been filed.
That’s astonishing and deeply disappointing, although certainly without precedent.
But those are certainly not the only ones that medical research has connected with longterm ingestion of those chemicals —and civilian employees and service members’ families were exposed as well.
Spencer may be right that law limits federal liability for the illnesses.
A North Carolina law puts a 10-year statute of limitations on such cases, a federal law limits government liability unless actual negligence is found, and a Supreme Court decision rules that the federal government isn’t liable for injuries to military members hurt while on duty.
And Congress needs to act as well, providing relief for the thousands of Marines, civilians and families whose lives were tragically disrupted because the government failed to adequately test the water on Camp Lejeune for safety.

(KEVN) – Three months ago Ellsworth Air Force Base announced that some residential wells were contaminated, and surrounding residents are still dealing with the issue.
We spoke with one Box Elder woman to find out how her family is getting by.
But a few months ago, Ellsworth Air Force Base told Maynard her water is contaminated with high levels of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, better known as PFOS.
After three rounds of testing, Ellsworth Air Force Base sampled 68 wells, and 15 of them have high levels of PFOS and PFOA.
The base told her firefighting foam runoff caused the contamination of her water."
NanCee Maynard says, "I’m really disappointed.
We’re neighbors out here.
When it was save the base, we all jumped in and did what we could, wrote our letters, helped them save the base, helped them have a living and a healthy lifestyle.
The long-term solution is hooking affected residents up to city water.
NanCee Maynard says, "If it’s Box Elder, since we’re outside the city limits, we would have double user fees."

(KOTA TV) – Three months ago Ellsworth Air Force Base announced that some residential wells were contaminated, and surrounding residents are still dealing with the issue.
We spoke with one Box Elder woman to find out how her family is getting by.
But a few months ago, Ellsworth Air Force Base told Maynard her water is contaminated with high levels of perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, better known as PFOS.
After three rounds of testing, Ellsworth Air Force Base sampled 68 wells, and 15 of them have high levels of PFOS and PFOA.
The base told her firefighting foam runoff caused the contamination of her water."
NanCee Maynard says, "I’m really disappointed.
We’re neighbors out here.
When it was save the base, we all jumped in and did what we could, wrote our letters, helped them save the base, helped them have a living and a healthy lifestyle.
The long-term solution is hooking affected residents up to city water.
NanCee Maynard says, "If it’s Box Elder, since we’re outside the city limits, we would have double user fees."