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This is a list of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania 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 contaminations. [1]
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Guest column: Act 12 permits a local government to tap the value of their water treatment assets and avoid heavy debt. Fixing Pa. water systems will cost billions, let local governments tap ...
The company then paid to have a water well drilled for the landowner, which the owner said also was contaminated. According to a letter dated October 19, 2011, The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection tested the landowner's well water twice, and found no contamination in the water.
As the water table around the well is lowered from pumping, unsaturated soil is exposed. This area, called the capillary fringe, is often highly contaminated, as it holds undissolved chemicals, chemicals that are lighter than water, and vapors that have escaped from the dissolved groundwater below. Contaminants in the newly exposed zone can be ...
Dec. 29—TOLLAND — The Town Council on Tuesday unanimously authorized spending up to $50,000 in federal COVID relief funds to pay for engineering and a cost analysis study of well water ...
Environmental impact of fracking in the United States has been an issue of public concern, and includes the contamination of ground and surface water, methane emissions, [1] air pollution, migration of gases and fracking chemicals and radionuclides to the surface, the potential mishandling of solid waste, drill cuttings, increased seismicity and associated effects on human and ecosystem health.
As a real estate agent and homeowner in Stillwater, Carmen Rubel Carver became concerned in March when she learned that the city's water system had been tagged with a state Health Department ...