Tag: sewage
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Environmental group: Iowa’s waterway cleanup plan could take 22,000 years
The nonprofit’s latest review of the state’s Nutrient Reduction Strategy – the backbone of Iowa’s water quality efforts – found the plan still isn’t working, in the council’s view. State leaders, including the agriculture secretary, insist the program is making progress.
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Single Systems: Great Lakes cities’ sewer designs mean waste in the waters
The video shot in the summer of 2016 is grisly. In it, Mark Mattson, co-founder of the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, displays materials skimmed from the Toronto harbor, which lies along the northwestern end of Lake Ontario. As his small boat bobs in the water, he lays them on a wooden oar: slimy condoms, tampons and…
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Fort Lauderdale’s polluted waterways need help: Here come the oysters
Photo: Mike Lambrechts — The Broward chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association is providing homes for oysters to filter water in Fort Lauderdale’s sewage-contaminated waterways. As broken sewage pipes foul Fort Lauderdale’s waterways, a group of conservationists has begun deploying one of the world’s most formidable filtration systems. A single oyster can cleanse more than…
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Coronavirus doesn’t jeopardize tap water, but it might be carried in raw sewage
Brian Wright, 22, picks up bottled water out of a shopping cart while much of the bottled water has already been sold for the day at the Stater Bros. market in Rancho Cucamonga Monday afternoon March 16, 2020. Health, evnironmental and water officials say tap water is entirely safe from the new coronavirus because of…
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State chips in money for project to try to “destroy” PFAS in wastewater
Photo: The sample room at the Grand Rapids wastewater treatment facility. DUSTIN DWYER / MICHIGAN RADIO The swirling liquid rushes into concrete channels behind a black chain-link fence. “That is what sewage looks like,” says Nicole Pasch, who works in Environmental Services for the city of Grand Rapids. Pasch is showing off the wastewater treatment…
