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The EPA ordered Wyandotte County to stop the overflow, which increases residents’ risk of exposure to toxic chemicals, ...
The city says efforts have modernized Waterloo's wastewater system, ending years of sewer backups and reducing overflows.
A review Tuesday of the City of Fort Smith's consent decree work assessing and fixing hundreds of miles of its sewer system ...
The Fort Smith Board of Directors has asked city staff to better communicate sewer system work to address improvements ...
The federal government “successfully finalized a proposed resolution” to Youngstown’s plan to reduce a major wastewater improvement project, but asked a judge to give it until Aug. 26 to consider any ...
The US EPA announced Monday it plans to approve a sixth state for authority to permit underground CO2 injection wells. The US EPA announced Monday it plans to approve a sixth state for authority to ...
BASF is subject to two consent decrees, agreements reached with the state in U.S. District Court, from 1980 and 1986, as well as an administrative order on consent with EPA for corrective action.
The state's 1986 consent decree with BASF required the well-pumping system created by the company to maintain an inward "hydraulic gradient" at the North Works site, but BASF has not successfully ...
The consent decree was modified in October 2017, and required the full restoration of the stream, from Walker Avenue at the city-county line to Chinquapin Run’s confluence with Herring Run, a ...
Jackson's water and sewer systems have been under federal consent decrees for years due to the city falling out of federal compliance with the Clean Water Act. The issues were exacerbated in ...
The proposed consent decree was filed with the U.S District Court for the District of New Mexico and is subject to a 30-day comment period. The complaint and the proposed consent decree are ...
WATERLOO | City Council members have agreed to pay a $272,000 fine and make sewer improvements to resolve claims brought by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.