Charles River Property Owners Must Now Control Stormwater
BOSTON, Massachusetts, December 1, 2008 (ENS) – The U.S. EPA and the state of Massachusetts are about to impose stormwater permit controls on industrial, commercial and high-density residential facilities in the Charles River watershed. Stormwater containing high levels of phosphorus is blamed for neon blue-green algae blooms of toxic cyanobacteria that have taken over the [...]
Read More »Federal Lawsuit Filed to Halt Florida’s Toxic Algae Blooms
TALLAHASSEE, Florida, July 18, 2008 (ENS) – Today, five environmental groups filed a lawsuit to compel the federal government and the state of Florida to set numeric limits on the excess nutrients which trigger harmful blooms of blue-green algae. Algae blooms are fouling Florida’s beaches, lakes, rivers, and springs, threatening public health, and closing swimming [...]
Read More »Toxic Algae Poisons Klamath River and Two Reservoirs
SANTA ROSA, California, June 18, 2008 (ENS) – A California Superior Court judge has invited the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board to exercise its authority to regulate water quality to rid the Klamath River of toxic algae. The ruling by Judge Elaine Rushing comes in a lawsuit filed by Klamath Riverkeeper, the Karuk [...]
Read More »Emerging Waterfowl, Raptor Disease Linked to Toxic Algae
COLUMBIA, South Carolina, January 14, 2008 (ENS) – Wildlife biologists and park rangers are monitoring area reservoirs and lakes for signs of a new fatal bird disease that primarily affects waterfowl and raptors. Biologists are concerned with the emergence of avian vacuolar myelinopathy, AVM, in South Carolina. The disease has been implicated in the death [...]
Read More »Sides Line Up in Florida State-Federal Water Dispute
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, January 2, 2008 (ENS) – A lawsuit by three environmental groups seeking to force the South Florida Water Management District to obtain federal discharge permits for pumping water into Florida’s largest lake has attracted a large number of opponents. Nine states and dozens of agencies and organizations filed legal briefs in [...]
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