District’s Environmental Health Director Addresses Oscoda Water Contamination Concerns.
We got some answers on the Oscoda water contamination issue from District Health Department #2’s Environmental Health Director.
On April 25th, a town hall meeting was held in Oscoda to continue the conversation, and catch up those of us who didn’t have all the details.
The contaminants, called perfluorinated chemicals, or PFA’s, were accidentally leaked into groundwater by the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base.
Environmental Health Director Chuck Lichon says while they are still trying to understand the issue completely, they are working closely with residents to make sure they have access to safe drinking water.
Or they can get a water cooler.
This is not just a local issue, however.
The air force is currently working with PFA leakages in cities across the nation.
And 38 of the 40 also have issues with these Perfluorinated chemicals or PFA’s, into the groundwater,” Lichon says.
We’ll unveil the history that led to the leaks in the first place, learn about the different organizations involved and what they’re doing to combat the problem locally, and hear how the Air Force is responding to the national threat.

SIUE’s Lallish receives IWEA Meredith Award.
EDWARDSVILLE – Rick Lallish, program director of Water Pollution Control at the Environmental Resources Training Center (ERTC) at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, has received the Illinois Water Environment Association’s (IWEA) Kenneth Meredith Award.
“We all go above and beyond for our students and operators throughout the state.
They are employed at wastewater treatment plants, engineering firms and manufacturers of water treatment equipment.
Lallish was chosen by the IWEA for his outstanding efforts in assisting the many wastewater operators and professionals in the state.
The instructors use its 30,000-gallon per day training-scale drinking water and wastewater treatment plant to teach students the skills needed to properly operate a plant.
To meet the important need for trained operators, ERTC annually provides up to 30 graduates from its Water Quality Control Operations Program.
These graduates are skilled operators and most possess their state certifications.
ERTC courses are designed to assist entry level personnel, who are preparing for a career in drinking water and wastewater treatment systems, and persons already employed in such systems who desire education to upgrade job skills, obtain advanced certification levels and prepare for more responsible positions.
ERTC plays a role in the education of minority and female students, who typically makeup 20 percent of the students in the Water Quality Control Operations Program.

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The textiles and apparel manufacturing industry has always been one of the major causes for global environmental pollution.
As the industry continues to thrive in emerging countries such as China and Bangladesh, how to tackle environmental pollution, especially water pollution has become one of the biggest issues faced by the industry.
China Takes Serious Actions Against Textile Polluters Chinese authorities are taking hard actions to fight against textile industry pollution as a recent report shows that enterprises and manufactures in China who caused serious pollution were fined a total of USD 38.3 million in the first quarter of 2017.
Many of these enterprises and manufacturers were operating in China’s textile Industry.
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Reservoirs of HEP dams long- term solution to water woes.
KUCHING: A long-term solution to the water woes in Sarawak would be the usage of reservoirs of hydro electric power (HEP) dams as water sources.
Water pollution and/or salty water from rivers are hard to control but the control of water from dams can be assured.
Chief Minister Datuk Amar Abang Johari Tun Openg said he was thinking outside the box in solving the water issue and therefore came out with a long-term solution.
He mentioned the reservoir of Bakun HEP dam to solve the murky tap water in Belaga, salty water in Tanjung Manis and the Batang Ai HEP dam to solve salty water-linked problem in Sebuyau, for instance.
The Baleh and Murum dams would be used to solve water woes in the northern region, he added.
“All we need is grid piping system.
We have dams and so we will make use of them.
He said the state cabinet had agreed to appoint a consultant to do an overall study on the matter.
The idea is to pump water from the reservoirs of these HEP dams – in Batang Ai, Bakun, Baleh and Murum – to the water treatment plants.

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – Environmentalists and public health advocates are going to court to fight the Trump administration’s move to rewrite Obama-era rules limiting water pollution from coal-fired power plants.
A coalition of about a dozen groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
The action challenges the decision by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt last month seeking to rewrite the 2015 water pollution regulations.
Arsenic, lead and mercury and other potentially harmful contaminants leach from massive pits of waterlogged ash left behind after burning coal to generate electricity.
"These standards would have tackled the biggest source of toxic water pollution in the country, and now the Trump EPA is trying to toss them out.
It’s indefensible," said Pete Harrison, an attorney for Waterkeeper Alliance.
"The EPA didn’t even pretend to seek public input before plowing ahead with this rollback that could allow millions of pounds of preventable toxic pollution to go into our water."
In addition to the Waterkeepers, Earthjustice, the Sierra Club, Clean Water Action and the Environmental Integrity Project are among the groups filing suit.
President Donald Trump has pledged to reverse decades of decline in coal-mining jobs and has questioned the consensus of climate scientists that man-made carbon emissions are to blame for global warming.
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Regardless of who is to blame – and there are many causes of water pollution – the fact there is a problem is clear.
One special creature that lives in our streams, lakes, ponds, and swamps is the koura, or freshwater crayfish.
* Analysis: ‘Swimmability’ only part of the grim freshwater story * ‘Serious pressures’ facing rivers, Government report finds Koura are found in native and exotic forests, and pastoral waterways, but very rarely in urban streams because of chemical pollution, increased flood flows from stormwater inputs, and degradation of habitat.
There are two species endemic to New Zealand – a larger one that grows up to 80 centimetres long and is found on Stewart Island in the Marlborough Sounds and the east and south of the South Island, and one that is slightly smaller and found in the North Island, top of the south, and the West Coast.
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They also have a sort of reverse gear, to shoot back into shelter when alarmed, by flicking their tail forwards violently.
Their first pair of legs, their pincers, are used mainly for catching food, for fighting with invaders, or for waving menacingly at intruders.
Koura are scavengers that feed on leftovers that float by in the water or settle on the bottom; old leaves and small insects are favourites.
They cling to their mothers with their pincers until they are nearly 4 millimetres long.
Be aware of what goes down the drain, and remember that we are not the only ones who depend on clean freshwater streams and rivers.

Chasewood still investigating well water contamination.
Close to eight years have passed since elevated levels of radioactive particles were found in the drinking water of the Chasewood subdivision in eastern Fort Bend County.
In their quest to confirm whether the water contamination is linked to cancer cases in Chasewood, residents are participating in an independent survey to track cancer occurrences.
A second opinion In March of 2016, at the request of concerned residents, the Texas Department of State Health Services released a study to identify possible cancer clusters in the Chasewood area.
The civic club felt the DSHS survey—the scope of which was crafted by the state at the request of the Houston Health Department—should have looked for more cancer types.
We don’t look at the cause of the cancer.
Smith said about 25-30 percent of households responded to the survey and if enough cases of a particular cancer are reported, that could meet the DSHS threshold for a new cluster study.
Water from Greenridge MUD wells serving the neighborhood tested above the legal limit for radioactive gross alpha particles in 2009.
“If the water was contaminated, most likely the things the water was being housed in—the pumps, the tanks—was contaminated as well,” he said.
Houston owned the water wells but the gas wells were operated by OG Co. Inc, according to a letter from the RRC.

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Iowa Farmers Won a Water Pollution Lawsuit, But at What Cost?.
That leaves Des Moines Water Works, the utility that filed the lawsuit, and farmers in almost exactly the same place they were before they went to court: The utility faces bigger bills to remove farming-related chemicals from the Raccoon River, its source of drinking water, and the farmers still aren’t required to reduce pollution from their farms.
“The court’s ruling noted that this policy issue is left up to the Iowa legislature to resolve, but it didn’t happen this year, so we’re disappointed in that,” says Laura Sarcone, a spokeswoman for the Des Moines Water Works.
In Iowa, 92 percent of them are found in rivers and lakes and came from agriculture and other unregulated sources.
Meanwhile, the two Republican-controlled chambers of the legislature couldn’t agree on how to improve water quality, even though it was a top priority for outgoing Gov.
Kim Reynolds, who will succeed Branstad, said water quality “will continue to be a priority of mine” in next year’s legislative session.
The soybean association and the Des Moines Water Works do agree on at least one thing: the need for more data on water quality to be collected and published.
The utility, of course, is keeping close tabs on the level of nitrates in the Raccoon River.
Heavy rains have diluted the nitrates, and Des Moines only used its nitrate-removal system 65 days last year.
In May 2016, the level of nitrogen in the Gulf of Mexico was 12 percent higher than the average over the previous 25 years.

Fostoria panel OKs water pollution project.
FOSTORIA — Fostoria City Council approved an agreement Tuesday evening to start the process for a more than $10 million Ohio Environmental Protection Agency-mandated project.
City Engineer Dan Thornton said the design work for the plan could be paid for with a $675,000, zero-interest loan to begin this year.
If the city is approved for the loans, Thornton said the work must begin quickly.
Thornton also said there were issues with a screw pump at the water treatment plant.
“Without screw pumps, we aren’t treating any water.” In other news, City Auditor Steve Garner said income tax revenue was down about 21.6 percent from last year at this time.
The city has collected about $1.6 million in the first four months of 2017 compared to a little more than $2 million in 2016.
During old business, council approved a $340,000 loan through the Revolving Loan Fund to TJS Tri-County Properties.
She said the project is a $1.7 million investment that is to bring 15 jobs.
Smith said recent activity in the Revolving Loan Fund is a good thing for the city.