EPA Nears New Storm Sewage Guidlines
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The Environmental Protection Agency is leaning toward allowing sewage plants to skip some stages of treatment during heavy rains or melting slow as long as the treated water meets all permits and other safeguards are provided, agency sources said Wednesday.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 7--Fort Lewis officials promised Wednesday to help protect Puget Sound by intercepting hazardous wastes before they enter the post's sewage treatment plant.
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By Roy Appleton, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 14--Any decision is days, if not weeks, away. But the North Texas Municipal Water District and its customer cities moved Wednesday toward new, tougher water restrictions.
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By Bertrand M. Gutierrez, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Mar. 9--Clean tap water. Unclogged wastewater pipes. Modernized treatment plants.
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By Pam Sohn, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 25--On July 1, Tennessee residents will be able to go to the Internet and find violations of the Clean Water Act.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Mar. 10--RICHMOND -- The Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach was officially declared a "no discharge zone" for boat sewage on Friday, a move intended to curb bacteria pollution that plagues the city waterway.
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By Chris Bowman, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 17--To operators of the Sacramento regional sewage treatment works skirting Elk Grove, the rail tanker that lumbers up to the sprawling plant every few days represents a delivery of disinfectant to purify wastewater.   But to the U.S.
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The Water Department notified residents Thursday that on Aug. 26 bacteria was found in the water supply in the Oak Street area, where construction is now taking place to install new water mains.
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A new network of sensors will detail how ecological threats to the waterway affect the seacoast.
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By Ian Berry, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Sep. 22--With the federal Superfund cleanup of Chattanooga Creek nearing completion, scientists, politicians, regulators and community leaders are asking what's next.
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By Rick Steelhammer  rsteelhammer@wvgazette.com  Plans to relocate the sewage plant serving Pocahontas County's largest development onto the grounds of one of its smallest and oldest tourist stops came a step closer to becoming a reality on Wednesday.
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IT ISN'T pretty. In fact, it's disgusting. It's one of North Jersey's most serious water-quality problems and has been for decades. During heavy rains, untreated sewage pours out of aging sewer systems directly into area rivers and streams.
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By Patrick Lynch, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Feb. 12--RICHMOND -- The General Assembly is poised to create a slew of new guidelines for spreading sludge on farms.
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WASHINGTON -- November 12 -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), led by Bush appointees, plans to launch a new study in which participating low income families will have their children exposed to toxic pesticides over the course of two years.
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The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration unveils a newly updated Web site that lets people call up a map of the storm that wreaked havoc on Louisiana.
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A new research center at the University of New Hampshire hopes to help reduce a huge threat to water quality nationwide: stormwater carrying pollutants into streams, wetlands and coastal harbors.
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By ERIK ROBINSON, Columbian staff writer  Five polluted sites in Clark and Skamania counties are on the state Department of Ecology's radar, through new listings on the Hazardous Sites List.