Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Christmas Tree Composting in Prince William County

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Christmas is over. As a part of the yard waste collection program instituted this past fall, the cut Christmas Trees will be picked up by tr...
Sunday, December 26, 2021

Oceana takes aim at Amazon Plastic Waste

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The ubiquitous use of plastic in our modern world and inadequate management of plastic waste has led to increased contamination of freshwate...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Drinking Water to be Studied for PFAS

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On Monday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announcedthe Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 5) to establish na...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Aboveground Storage Tanks

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For almost a week in 2014 Charleston  West Virginia and the surrounding communities were without drinking water because of a chemical spill ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Dug Well Design to Safely Access Shallow Groundwater

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 The following is from a news release from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS): There are three basic styles of modern well construction: Dr...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

Increasing Salinization of our Drinking Water

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According to the Izaak Walton League of America in Virginia : “The data collected by Virginia Save Our Streams volunteers shows, without a d...
Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Water Infrastructure Grants

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Under the recently passed Infrastructure Bill, EPA will allocate $7.4 billion to states, Tribes, and territories for 2022, with nearly half ...