Marine-Base Housing Contained Drinking Water Contaminated With Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) for Nearly 30 Years Says Federal Health Agency
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To: MEDICAL EDITORS  Contact: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, +1- 404-498-0070   ATLANTA, June 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Water in the drinking water system for the Tarawa Terrace family housing area at U.S.
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By Zane Wilson, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Dec. 15--Customers of the Browns Ferry Water District in central Georgetown County were advised late Thursday to boil their water before drinking it or use bottled water because E. coli was found in the water.
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More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination
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A surprising number of drinking  water systems on domestic and foreign commercial aircraft  tested this summer by the government did not meet federal  standards because they were contaminated with potentially  harmful bacteria, regulators said on Monday.
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By The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 21--What started out as a simple dredging proposal to improve navigation at the base of Budd Inlet has turned into a costly need to clean up chemical contamination in the inlet.
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Investigators trying to track down the source of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illnesses on a Lake Erie resort island are focusing on drinking water.
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An anti-bacterial agent commonly found in soaps and detergents has been found in water from streams and wastewater treatment plants in the Baltimore area, a Johns Hopkins researcher said Wednesday.
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Drinking water on commercial airliners will be checked more frequently after the Environmental Protection Agency found evidence of harmful bacteria in the water of one of every eight planes tested.
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Military officials should directly inform hundreds of thousands of Marine families and workers that they drank and washed in toxin-contaminated water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, Sen. Elizabeth Dole said Wednesday.
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By Alexandra Mayer-Hohdahl, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Jun. 19--LOWELL -- Members of the Lowell Fire Department and its Hazardous Materials Team worked early Monday afternoon to contain a substance that had been spotted on the water of the city's Northern Canal.
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By Darrin Youker, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Mar. 11--Since 1982, residents in Bally have had problems with contamination in their municipal water supply.  But in a few months, the federal Environmental Protection Agency finally expects to remedy the situation.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency since early 2006 has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times the recommended maximum for U.S. workers, congressional...
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Toxic chlorine pollutants were found at unsafe levels in 40 percent of D.C. tap water samples tested this spring during the water utility's annual chlorine surge, according to a national environmental group's report to be released today.
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Jun. 6--WASHINGTON -- Recommendations in a national study on federal water pollution cleanup projects already are part of planned PCB dredging of the Hudson River at Fort Edward, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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A more refined test of the water in the Washington Aqueduct has revealed the presence of perchlorate, a toxic chemical typically found in weapons and explosives, federal officials said yesterday.
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Federal environmental officials have ordered the U.S. military to clean up PCBs, pesticides, metals and other contaminants at McGuire Air Force Base.
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By Sammy Fretwell, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Jun. 18--Despite federal warnings, the state has not set aside enough money to clean up leaks from buried petroleum tanks that threaten drinking water across South Carolina.