Category: Public health
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State puts Flint on notice for not fixing water system deficiencies
The Flint water plant is shown in this Flint Journal file photo. FLINT, MI — The city has failed to fix water system problems identified by the state more than nine months ago and now must agree to a schedule for correcting them. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has told Mayor Karen Weaver that…
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Salem water sees decrease in toxins, Wilsonville sees increase
Salem tap water could be safe for everyone after another day, said city officials Friday. There’s no guarantee, because toxin levels can wax and wane, but water treatment staff are seeing a trend line in the right direction. The city needs two days of clean test results before a water advisory that caused some residents…
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Brain-damaging lead in tap water, hundreds of homes across Chicago
A Tribune analysis of the results shows lead was found in water drawn from nearly 70 percent of the 2,797 homes tested during the past two years. Tap water in 3 of every 10 homes sampled had lead concentrations above 5 parts per billion, the maximum allowed in bottled water by the U.S. Food and…
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Plan to protect Lake Erie from algae blooms isn’t working, study shows
Farm runoff provides fertilizer that turbo-charges algae growth in the western Lake Erie basin. Wochit (Photo: Brenda Culler, Ohio Department of Natural Resources.) Miles of green, mucky and potentially toxic algae blooms on western Lake Erie — and the oxygen-deprived dead zones in the Great Lake that come with them — have led Ohio to…
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Flint Activist LeeAnne Walters Wins Major Environmental Prize
LeeAnne Walters, a recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize, was key in exposing the crisis of lead-laced water in Flint, Mich. A Flint activist who worked to expose the Michigan city’s lead crisis is being hailed as an environmental hero. She’s one of the winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize. The honor, announced on…
