www.tnonline.com/2012/dec/04/dep-calls-further-probe-wildcat-sewers Tuesday, December 4, 2012 By JACOB SEIBEL TN Correspondent tneditor@tnonline.com Unpermitted sewer lines that discharge untreated sewage, known as wildcat sewers, have officially delayed the nearly decade-long Act 537 project for West Penn Township and Walker Township. With the plan supposed to be finished by the end of December before what supervisors hoped to… Read more
www.timesleader.com/news/PennPIRG-release-report-on.html 1/24/2012 PennPIRG releases report on threat of nuclear power to PA drinking water The Pennsylvania Public Interest Research Group (PennPIRG) Education Fund has released new data on how nuclear power plants are a threat to the drinking water for Pennsylvanians in a report, “Too Close To Home: Nuclear Power and the Threat to Drinking… Read more
Penn State Extension will be offering several training workshops for new Master Well Owner Volunteers in 2012. The six week online course will begin on February 6, 2012. Two Saturday training workshops will also be offered this spring in McKean and Butler Counties. More details on these training workshops, including a link to the online… Read more
http://www.tnonline.com/2011/aug/25/new-study-determines-states-offer-inadequate-coal-ash-protection Thursday, August 25, 2011 A new study finds that state regulations regarding coal ash disposal are inadequate to protect public health and drinking water supplies for nearby communities. The information comes as federal regulations – the first of their kind – are under attack by a hostile Congress bent on derailing any effort to… Read more
http://www.tnonline.com/2011/jul/20/costly-delay By LIZ PINKEY TN Correspondent tneditor@tnonline.com Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Members of Tamaqua’s Borough Council got an earful last night from several citizens who are unhappy about the fact that they are responsible for footing the bill to connect to the sanitary sewer, after years of illegally, and in most cases, unknowingly, discharging waste… Read more
http://www.tnonline.com/2011/jul/19/expensive-proposition By ANDY LEIBENGUTH aleibenguth@tnonline.com Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Forty Tamaqua property owners are being given 60-day notices to stop discharging wastewater directly to the Wabash Creek culvert and to connect to Tamaqua’s municipal sewer system. The work is to be done at property owners’ expense. The state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued an… Read more
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2011/2011-06-08-01.html WASHINGTON, DC, June 8, 2011 (ENS) – Environmental health and autism experts Tuesday called for reform of the outdated U.S. law regulating chemicals, the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. They warned that the recent sharp rise in autism is likely due, in part, to the cocktail of toxic chemicals that pregnant women, fetuses,… Read more
http://citizensvoice.com/news/cancer-cases-raise-worry-in-pittston-neighborhood-1.1149970#axzz1MzQ9BcoU By Andrew Staub (Staff Writer) Published: May 21, 2011 It seems everybody who lives near Chuck Meninchini is sick. The radius of disease circles Mill Street and Carroll Street in Pittston, Meninchini’s hometown. In a one-block radius on the streets five people have brain cancer, Meninchini said. And there’s more. Fifteen people in the… Read more
http://www.tnonline.com/node/197237 Reported on Friday, May 20, 2011 By LIZ PINKEY tneditor@tnonline.com Fifty six properties in the borough of Tamaqua have been identified as having active or once active illegal sewer connections to the Wabash Creek. Those that were once active may need further investigation to determine if they will need to be addressed. Council president… Read more
In all of the debate on Capitol Hill about cutting budgets, you wouldn’t expect water to get a great deal of attention. But it should. The Continuing Resolution set to emerge from the House this week makes drastic reductions in support for critical functions of the Environmental Protection Agency – the federal entity charged with… Read more
