Tag: Department of Environmental Protection
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Toilet to tap? Daytona Beach experiments with turning treated wastewater into drinking water
The city of Daytona Beach is part of a new pilot program to experiment with turning treated wastewater into drinking water. The city is working with Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the St. Johns River Water Management District on the project. The city has built a treatment facility for the two-year pilot project, but…
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Environmental Groups Sue Newark Over Lead in Drinking Water
Photo by Gabriel Rocha/Flickr The Natural Resources Defense Council and Newark Education Workers Caucus have taken the city of Newark, New Jersey, to court over elevated levels of lead in the city’s drinking water. The NRDC and NEW Caucus allege that city officials have failed to implement adequate water quality and treatment systems to prevent…
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New York City’s $1 Billion Leaking Water Infrastructure Repair
(Photo: The tunnel boring machine excavating the Delaware Aqueduct Bypass Tunnel. Credit: NYC Water on YouTube) The world’s longest tunnel needs a $1.2 billion fix. Built during World War II, the Delaware Aqueduct supplies approximately half of New York City’s drinking water and has been leaking 15 million to 35 million gallons daily since the…
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DEP using water insects to measure waterway health
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is making public aquatic life sampling results from across the state. The data is publicly available in a GIS viewer with downloadable data sets. Known as benthic macroinvertebrates, these are the insects and animals that spend most, if not all, of their lives underwater. They can be mayflies or…
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New Jersey Sets First Binding State Limits for Perfluorinated Chemicals in Drinking Water
Regulators adopt strictest standards in the nation. Photo: Groundwater in Salem County, New Jersey, has been contaminated by perfluorinated chemicals from industrial manufacturing facilities. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Besides lead, no contaminant in drinking water has provoked as loud a public outcry in the last two years in the United States as a class…
