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Acid Mine Drainage to the extreme: Sherridon, Manitoba Canada
An interview with Matt Lindsay, Ph.D., P.Geo., NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Mine Closure Geochemistry
We really need to avoid remediation outcomes such as we see at Sherridon, which is obviously not what anyone hoped for.
Safe Drinking Water Act Compliance
WTLA.us Serious Violators List LA drinking water facilities compliance falls to 62.6%

HISTORIC ARCTIC BLAST BRINGS RECORD-BREAKING SNOWFALL TO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA Causing multiple broken mains and loss of pressure.
WILDFIRES ARE TOO MUCH FOR MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEMS. IN LOS ANGELES, FIREFIGHTERS TRIED ANYWAY.
When wind-driven embers sent flames ripping through the Los Angeles area on Jan. 7, firefighters and residents began noticing less water pressure in their hoses. In some cases, fire hydrants had no water at all.
Maven's Notebook -by Kylie Mohr, High Country News With Permission
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 Wednesday, January 29, 2025
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Acid Mine Drainage to the extreme: Sherridon, Manitoba Canada
An interview with Matt Lindsay, Ph.D., P.Geo., NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Mine Closure Geochemistry
We really need to avoid remediation outcomes such as we see at Sherridon, which is obviously not what anyone hoped for.

HISTORIC ARCTIC BLAST BRINGS RECORD-BREAKING SNOWFALL TO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA Causing multiple broken mains and loss of pressure.

WILDFIRES ARE TOO MUCH FOR MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEMS. IN LOS ANGELES, FIREFIGHTERS TRIED ANYWAY.
When wind-driven embers sent flames ripping through the Los Angeles area on Jan. 7, firefighters and residents began noticing less water pressure in their hoses. In some cases, fire hydrants had no water at all.
Maven's Notebook -by Kylie Mohr, High Country News With Permission

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 Wednesday, January 29, 2025

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 Tuesday, January 28, 2025

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WTLA.us Serious Violators List LA drinking water facilities compliance falls to 62.6%

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SDWA
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 Bastrop Water System Grade A, no violations
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 Chatham Water System
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 HABs back in Bayou Fortier

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 Bluegreen widespread in Lake Pontchartrain

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 Beryl filling the west and central LA waterways

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 Beryl spikes streamflow levels in the west

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Crime Box

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Environmental Crimes Historic Conviction:  Fiscal Year 2013; Case ID# CR_2453 (California)
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Metal plating business claims no industrial wastewater, principal sent to prison 2 years for illegal acidic discharge

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Antioch concrete beam manufacturer fined $3.5 million for high pH discharges

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Environmental Crimes Historic Conviction:  Fiscal Year 2011; Case ID# CR_2162 (California)
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