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Recycled Water Plays Important Role in California’s Water Supply Options

October 24, 2018October 11, 2019 by Guest Author

With the devasting impacts of unleashed groundwater pumping and climate change as a backdrop, this year California policy makers took steps to both improve the state’s water future and kick the can down the road. For example, Governor Brown signed two bills to establish per-person indoor water use goals, create ... Read more »

New Tool for Water Managers Untangles CA’s Groundwater Management Act

September 19, 2018 by Jennifer Nastu

Sustainably managing groundwater is one of the most important and complex challenges that California will face in coming decades, water experts in the state believe. Now, water managers have a new tool to help them understand California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA): the Groundwater Exchange, a free, collaborative online platform ... Read more »

As City Infrastructure Ages, Property Owners Seek New Ways to Manage Storm Water Runoff

July 13, 2017July 27, 2017 by Jennifer Nastu

As environmental regulations on how storm water runoff is handled tighten, property owners are increasingly becoming pressed to manage runoff in innovative ways – or face higher fees from cities and municipalities. Developers are charged by some local governments when stormwater runoff significantly increases the amount of water in storm ... Read more »

Groundwater Fees Prompt Farmers to Slash Water Use by a Third

June 22, 2017July 17, 2017 by Jennifer Nastu

When it comes to drought and the farming community, it seems a self-imposed fee on groundwater could work better than government regulations, according to a new study from the University of Colorado Boulder. The study suggests that self-imposed well-pumping fees can play an important role, incentivizing farmers to slash use ... Read more »

EPA Proposes Removing Most of Fulton, NY Site from Superfund List

February 12, 2015February 11, 2015 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

After cleaning up more than 10,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil and about 9 million gallons of contaminated groundwater, the EPA is proposing to remove a portion of the Fulton Terminals Superfund site, located in Fulton, New York, from the federal Superfund list of the most contaminated hazardous waste sites. ... Read more »

DNV GL Calls for Industry Collaboration to Quantify Fracking Risk

October 16, 2014October 15, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

DNV GL has launched a joint industry project to address concerns about fracking risks — particularly related to groundwater contamination — and invites industry and other stakeholders to participate. The aim is to collect data, develop and validate quantitative risk assessment methodologies and outline risk management strategies that can be ... Read more »

Groundwater Remediation Market to Exceed $14bn in 2015

October 14, 2014October 13, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

More than $14 billion will be spent in 2015 to remove metals, VOCs and other contaminants from groundwater, according to Site Remediation World Markets published by the McIlvaine Company. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are present at more than two-thirds of the Superfund, EPA Resource and Recovery Act and Department of ... Read more »

Farmers Fight Coca-Cola Over Groundwater

October 10, 2014October 9, 2014 by Ken Jennison

In Mehadiganj village, Uttar Pradesh state, India, the lack of groundwater has set farmers against a local Coca-Cola bottling plant, as both vie for the dwindling resource, according to Bloomberg. In August, Coca-Cola abandoned a $24 million expansion plan for the site, citing delays in permits to extract more water, ... Read more »

Duke Energy to Clean Up, Close Coal Ash Pits

September 29, 2014October 3, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Duke Energy officials told state regulators Tuesday it plans to remove coal ash from one of its South Carolina waste pits and close two additional ones, according to Power Engineering. Duke has ash pits at two power plants in the state. The W.S. Lee plant, which is set to convert ... Read more »

Free Groundwater Data Management Software Available

September 5, 2014September 5, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Eijkelkamp Agrisearch Equipment has released the latest version of its free groundwater data management software. Diver-Office 2014.1, can be downloaded from the company’s Diver water level logger website. What is new in Diver-Office 2014.1: Windows 8 (PCs) is supported Download only data that is not already in Diver-Office Select multiple DXTs ... Read more »

Fracking May Face Severe Water Competition

September 3, 2014September 5, 2014 by Ken Jennison

Hydraulic fracturing companies working to develop shale gas may encounter intense competition for water, as 38 percent of the world’s shale resources are either under extremely high water stress or facing arid conditions, according to a report by the World Resources Institute. The report ranks water stress across the 20 ... Read more »

Michigan Landfill to Take Radioactive Fracking Waste

August 25, 2014September 11, 2014 by Ken Jennison

A landfill in eastern Michigan was ready to accept up to 36 tons of low-level radioactive fracking waste last week that had already been rejected from two other states, according to the Detroit News. A number of local residents, as well as the Michigan director of the Sierra Club, expressed public ... Read more »

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