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Moreover, DuPont was only required to clean up drinking water in communities where C8 levels exceeded the EPA’s safety limit of 0.4 parts per billion. (A recent study concluded that even this figure may be more than 100 times too high.) The water in Parkersburg, where most of the plaintiffs lived, initially fell just below that threshold.
Oct. 22—2 Marion County water projects funded by W.Va. IJDC CHARLESTON — Two Marion County water projects were among a list of nine approved oct. 13 by the West Virginia Infrastructure and ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in West Virginia designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contamination. [1]
This they did at 5:09 p.m. [7] [15] West Virginia American Water concluded that its tap water was unsafe for use and instructed its customers to cease using its tap water at 5:45 p.m. [13] [16] Freedom Industries failed to contact West Virginia American Water following the spill, and West Virginia American Water was instead notified by the DEP. [7]
The Buckhannon River is a 45.4-mile-long (73.1 km) [3] tributary of the Tygart Valley River in north-central West Virginia, USA.Via the Tygart Valley, Monongahela and Ohio rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 309 square miles (800 km 2) on the unglaciated portion of the Allegheny Plateau.
Out of 23 water providers in Texas, Dallas water was picked for having the best drinking water in the state. Dallas officials will head to Anaheim in June to compete for nationwide honors.
The Hunters met with Eddie Canales, the executive director of the South Texas Human Rights Center, about 15 years ago and provided the design for the low-cost water stations. In light of the news ...
The lake contains 20 billion US gallons (7.6 × 10 10 litres; 1.7 × 10 10 imperial gallons) of coal ash and smokestack scrubber waste. [2] The northern coast of the lake is only a few hundred meters from the Ohio River, which is the drinking water source for more than three million people.