Entry 242124A non-profit organization based out of California called Dig Deep recently released a report claiming that a lack of access to water is...
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News Briefs: Biosolids Facility Explosion Injures Three Workers
Entry 242150An explosion at a biosolids processing facility in Wooster, Ohio, resulted in the hospitalization of three employees, according to The Daily...
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News Briefs: Treatment Plant Taken Offline After Main Break in Odessa, Texas
Entry 242160Crews in Odessa, Texas, were scrambling ahead of a heat wave June 15 to repair a major main break that left...
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News Briefs: Pump Failure Causes Wastewater Release Into Niagara River
Entry 242163Over Memorial Day weekend, millions of gallons of untreated wastewater leaked into the Niagara River after a pump failure.
Although one of the...
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News Briefs: Vandals Shoot 'Johnny Cash' Water Tower in Arkansas, Springing Leak
Entry 242182Nearly 30,000 gpd of drinking water is leaking from a water tower that features Johnny Cash’s silhouette in Kingland, Arkansas, after...
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News Briefs: Florida Governor Announces Funding to Support Red Tide Research, Mitigation
Entry 242188Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently announced a commitment to nearly $14 million in the Fiscal Year 2022-‘23 budget to continue Florida’s...
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News Briefs: Alliance for the Great Lakes Praises Milwaukee's Plan to Eliminate CSOs
Entry 242191Joel Brammeier, president of the Alliance for the Great Lakes, recently talked to Wisconsin Public Radio about his concerns about how sewer systems...
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News Briefs: Environment Officials Warn Maryland's Back River Is Unsafe for Human Contact
Entry 242194Due to contaminants in Back River that can cause illness, the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Maryland Department of...
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News Briefs: Chemical Mixing Mishap Causes Chlorine Cloud in Virginia
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Area homes and business were evacuated after a recent chemical incident at a wastewater treatment facility in Bedford, Virginia.According to a...
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News Briefs: Study Finds PFAS Are More Detectable as WWTP Effluent
Entry 242224Recent research out of Western Michigan University finds that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are more detectable after being discharged as...
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News Briefs: Baltimore Seeks Judicial Review of State's WWTP Takeover
Entry 242232The City of Baltimore is asking for a judicial review of the State of Maryland’s recent takeover of the Back River...
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News Briefs: Maryland Takes Control of Troubled WWTP in Baltimore County
Entry 242241Maryland Secretary of the Environment Ben Grumbles has ordered that the Maryland Environmental Service take control of the Back River Wastewater...
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News Briefs: San Diego County Unveils Its First Potable Reuse Treatment Plant
Entry 242244San Diego County recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its first operational potable water reuse treatment plant...
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News Briefs: CDC Sees Limited Participation in National Wastewater Surveillance System
Entry 242256After Bloomburg reported recently that one third of the Centers for Disease Control’s wastewater sample sites showed a rise in COVID-19...





