Drilling Industry News

RSS

Colorado State University researchers are beginning work on a four-year, $3-million project funded by the EPA to improve water quality assessments and address environmental problems related to water resources.

U.S. Senators recently agreed to triple the ethanol used in gasoline and to ban MTBE, leading to a nationwide ban in four years.

Earlier this year, about 150 attendees and 16 exhibitors traveled to the Grand Okanagan Resort in Kelowna, British Columbia, for the 2002 British Columbia Ground Water Show.

Earlier this year in Pittsburgh, the National Drilling Association held the first meeting of its new board and officers.

New Mexico currently has no licensing testing requirements, and the New Mexico Ground Water Association is hoping to convince the state to adopt NGWA's exams.

Large water utilities have been tutored on how to assess and address possible terrorist threats to the nation's drinking water supply systems through methodology recently released by the Awwa Research Foundation.

Applied Water Management Inc. has been awarded a 20-year contract to operate the wastewater treatment and recycling system for CMGi Field, the new home of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots.

Nine drinking water wells have been shut down in Orange County because of state concerns over a new contaminant.

Residents of Camden, N.J., who were supplied drinking water from a contaminated well field that is now a federal Superfund site are gearing up for legal action.

The EPA recently released a revised draft risk assessment of ammonium perchlorate, a component of solid rocket fuel.