The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is proposing a rule that will set numeric “trigger levels” for many of the 118 recently designated toxic pollutants that could potentially discharge into surface waters around the state. These trigger levels will prompt more than 50 municipal treatment facilities statewide to develop plans that will spell out how they will reduce their discharge of pollutants found in their effluent above the trigger level.
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By: Oregon DEQ News
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is proposing a rule that will set numeric “trigger” levels for many of the 118 recently designated toxic pollutants that could potentially discharge into surface waters around the state. These trigger levels will prompt more than 50 municipal treatment facilities statewide to develop plans that will spell out how they will reduce their discharge of pollutants found in their effluent above the trigger level.
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By: Oregon DEQ News
With funds from the federal stimulus package, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is planning cleanup of a petroleum-contaminated site in the unincorporated town of Keno, west of Klamath Falls. The site is the center of an area-wide groundwater contamination problem. DEQ will use about $350,000 in federal stimulus monies this winter to determine the extent of petroleum contamination in the area and provide funding to the local water provider to hook up the Keno Elementary School and possibly other affected businesses and residences.
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By: Oregon DEQ News
With funds from the federal stimulus package, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is planning cleanup of a petroleum-contaminated site in the Lake County community of Fort Rock. The property currently is a rural store and retail gas station. DEQ will use about $195,000 in federal stimulus monies this winter to determine the extent of petroleum contamination at the site and neighboring properties, and remove remaining petroleum contamination from the property.
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By: Oregon DEQ News
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has penalized Meggitt-Oregon Inc., which operates the Meggitt Polymer Solutions industrial polymer manufacturing facility at 2010 Lafayette Ave. in McMinnville, $3,959 for hazardous waste violations earlier this year.
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By: Oregon DEQ News
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is issuing an air pollution advisory through Saturday, December 26, due to stagnant air conditions over Umatilla, Morrow, Sherman, Gilliam, Wasco, Jefferson, Deschutes, Wheeler, Crook, Grant, Baker, Harney, Klamath, Lake, Jackson and Josephine counties. There is a possibility of extending the advisory into next week.
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By: Oregon DEQ News
WDNR South Central Region - Waterloo — The Department of Natural Resources is seeking public comment on two applications submitted by Crave Brothers Farm, LLC and Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, LLC of W11550 Torpy Road, …
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By: Wisconsin DNR News Releases
WDNR South Central Region - WATERLOO - The Department of Natural Resources is seeking public comment on two applications submitted by Crave Brothers Farm, LLC and Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, LLC of W11550 Torpy Road, …
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WDNR West Central Region - EAU CLAIRE - Biologists with the state Department of Natural Resources have tracked what could be the same cougar through parts of St. Croix, Pierce and Dunn counties in western Wisconsin.
It is …
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By: Wisconsin DNR News Releases
WDNR West Central Region - WAUSAU - The failure of an underground pipe allowed an estimated 25,000 gallons of gasoline to flow into the ground and to the water table 20 feet beneath the Magellan Pipeline Company’s Wausau …
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