County: Wells Now Safe From Benzene: Miami-Dade's Water Department Says It's Now Safe to Use Freshwater Pumps Turned Off Two Years Ago Because of Contamination
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 4--Two years after a mysterious chemical contamination shut down two-thirds of the pumps tapping Miami-Dade's largest source of drinking water, county engineers are preparing to put them back on line.
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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.
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By Aliana Ramos, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 14--GEORGETOWN -- Control over water and sewer service in rural Georgetown County may be up for grabs.
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By Amy Rinard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Feb. 14--When it comes to groundwater, what happens in western Waukesha County does not stay in western Waukesha County.
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The federal safety level for benzene, a leukemia-causing air toxin found throughout Houston and routinely inhaled by petrochemical plant workers, is too high to protect workers from blood cell
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By Matt Dees, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 13--DURHAM -- City water wasn't tested for volatile organic compounds last year because the samples kept getting misplaced, deputy city manager Ted Voorhees said Monday.
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By Neil Johnson and Mike Salinero, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jun. 5--TAMPA -- Florida is issuing a collective thanks to Barry for dousing wildfires, giving Tampa's water customers a break and soaking thirsty lawns.
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By Erika Pesantes, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Dec. 15--DELRAY BEACH -- Residents' sewer rates are set to increase to pay for a $17 million deep injection well project that will pump highly treated wastewater thousands of feet beneath the ground's surface.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 14--Many of South Florida's top water managers practice what they preach when it comes to water conservation, but utility records show at least three used more water this year than they did before drought restrictions.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 9--A tributary to two major Arizona waterways will be protected from development and groundwater pumping because a Tucsonan donated a major ranch to The Nature Conservancy.
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Bacteria levels in DC tap water exceeded federal health standards this month for the first time since 1996, city and Environmental Protection Agency officials announced yesterday, but they said most people are not at risk.
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By Nick C. Sortal, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 18--DEERFIELD BEACH -- At Quiet Waters Park, you can see Florida's Turnpike to the west and the mountainous Broward County landfill to the south. But this wasn't always the case.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Mar. 5--Three Benton County sites that long have been known to be contaminated are now on a state Department of Ecology list of hazardous sites planned for cleanup.   The Benton City Maintenance Yard, Chevron Chemical Co.
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To Texas litigator Scott Summy, methyl tertiary butyl ether, the gasoline additive that reduces air pollution, is the devil--and his savior. He claims to have proof that Big Oil knew that MTBE-laced gasoline would leak out of filling station tanks into the ground and contaminate water supplies across America--and is therefore culpable in a big public hazard. "We are talking about the public's drinking water, and these guys have intentionally contaminated it to the largest scale ever in this country," says Summy.
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By Alyson Crean, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Jun. 23--The Monroe County Commission Wednesday tabled a proposal that would extend the timeframe on an existing moratorium that affects working waterfront properties.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 10--DURHAM -- State water regulators have cited the city of Durham for failing to test its water last year for volatile organic compounds.   The compounds are a class of carbon chemicals that evaporate readily.
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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.