U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman and U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon have received the 2007 Ground Water Protector Award from the National Ground Water Association (NGWA). The Ground Water Protector Award recognizes
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Water Quality Financing Act of 2007 (HR 720) by a strong 303-108 vote. The bill would authorize the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
The United States should begin looking at energy and water needs as one issue so that each resource can be sustained in the future – that’s the crux of findings of a report the Department of Energy recently submitted to Congress.
A Dutch researcher has designed a simulation program to study the interactions between oil and water outside of the laboratory, research which will help provide insight into the behavior of contaminated ground water.
In the fall of 2006, Connelly and Associates Inc., one of the largest geotechnical drilling firms in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore areas, was hired by Schnabel Engineering Inc. to install geotechnical instrumentation and monitoring wells in test boreholes at the Jefferson Memorial. The purpose of the investigation was to determine soil and ground water conditions related to upheaval and movement of the surficial sidewalks, pavement and seawall along the Tidal Basin.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made a preliminary determination not to regulate 11 contaminants on the second drinking water contaminant candidate list. The agency's preliminary regulatory determination, based on a review of health effects and occurrence data, concludes that the specific contaminants do not occur at levels of public health concern in public water systems.
Since 1974, glaciologist Lonnie Thompson has made the trek to the Quelccaya ice cap at least 27 times, drilling cores through to bedrock, taking samples and periodically monitoring its slow but accelerating retreat.
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