Tainted Wells Found on Ohio Resort Island
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Contaminated wells may be the source of the mystery illness that has stricken more than 1,000 visitors to an Ohio island getaway in Lake Erie, authorities said on Friday.
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Spinach contaminated with E. coli. Frozen oysters tainted by norovirus. Peanut butter fouled by salmonella.
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PAULSBORO, NJ The Coast Guard now says that more than 473-thousand gallons of crude oil is missing from the tanker Athos I. And now, investigators believe that significantly more oil was spilled into the Delaware
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Scientists in Rockingham County have detected higher concentrations of the gasoline additive MtBE hundreds of feet below the surface than in shallow wells.
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By Dan Davis, The Tribune, Seymour, Ind.  Feb. 10--Federal health officials want to further evaluate soil and water samples from some Carr Township properties.
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When residents in a district of the Marshall Islands capital quench their thirst, the water is more than likely to be contaminated by human waste and the decomposed bodies of relatives.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 3--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 Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press  May 26--Michigan is getting shortchanged on federal funds to test for contamination at its beaches, according to a new federal report.
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A rare sunlight and chlorine reaction tainted the water of two reservoirs that supply drinking water to Los Angeles with a cancer-causing chemical, utility officials said Friday.
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By Allyson Bond, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Mar. 2--GLENOLA -- Test results for possible water contamination in Glenola near the Confluence Watersports facility were returned earlier this week stating none of the chemicals tested were detectable in the water.
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By Jennifer Maloney, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 13--The Suffolk Water Authority and opponents clashed yesterday in a hearing on the authority's application to drill into the Lloyd aquifer to help address contamination issues in Northport.
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By The Associated Press  BELPRE, Ohio - Within weeks, testing for the presence of a chemical used to make Teflon that's been found in the blood of Ohio and West Virginia residents will start extending to hundreds and perhaps thousands of isolated wells.
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By RICHARD BURGESS  The state Department of Health and Hospitals on Friday issued swim advisories for public beaches in Cameron Parish, except one, after testing found high levels of a bacteria used as an indicator of sewage.
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An oil companyâs plan to begin exploratory drilling near the remote site of Robert Smithsonâs âSpiral Jettyâ along the Great Salt Lake in Utah has stirred an impassioned response from artists and others who fear that the project could endanger that massive artwork. The jetty, a 1,500-foot-long curlicue of salt crystals, rocks and mud jutting into the lake, was completed by Smithson in 1970, three years before he died in a plane crash. The State of Utah, which must approve any plan for drilling in the area, decided recently to extend a period for public comment on the proposal until Feb. 13. John Harja, who runs the stateâs public land policy coordinating office, said on Tuesday that the office had received 900 letters, e-mail messages and calls about the issue in the last several days. Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, issued a statement calling the jetty âa significant cultural siteâ and saying that the trust was âdeeply concerned about the potential harm that energy development could bringâ to it.
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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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By Dennis Cauchon  The Milwaukee suburb of New Berlin gets half its water from the Great Lakes and half from underground wells that are tainted with radium, a radioactive element.
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By Andrew Tran, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 27--FORT LAUDERDALE -- Two men were treated after inhaling pool chemicals that leaked when a truck crashed on Ocean Boulevard on Wednesday, authorities said.