Yearly Archives: 2014
Federal Assistance for Vermont Farmers
POV
September 10, 2014
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced Thursday (September 4, 2014) a $45 million program available to Vermont farmers who adopt conservation practices intended to prevent nutrient runoff into the state’s waterways. According to the USDA news release, blue-green algae blooms on Lake Champlain are the result of degraded water quality primarily due to phosphorus […]
Milwaukee Thinks Outside the Box for Stormwater Control
POV
September 8, 2014
Milwaukee has a combined sewer system where stormwater runoff and sewage is collected in the same pipe. Milwaukee has evaluated the feasibility of using uninhabited houses to temporarily store combined sewage and stormwater in the basement following rain events. The basement locations will be empty houses already scheduled to be razed. City officials were looking […]
Nutrients Not Going Away Any Time Soon
POV
September 5, 2014
Recently I shared a presentation titled “Potential Impacts of Kentucky’s Nutrient Strategy” at the Environmental Permitting and Reporting Conference. In general, nutrients come from two sources: point and non-point discharges. Point source discharges are easy to identify and usually have a KPDES permit. Right or wrong, it is these facilities that will sources will bear […]
West Virginia’s Deadline for Registering ASTs is Approaching
POV
August 28, 2014
Several months ago, we highlighted the new aboveground storage tank rule that would take affect in West Virginia. Click here for that update. Deadlines for the rule are quickly approaching. Tank owners in West Virginia are reminded to register their aboveground storage tanks (ASTs) with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) prior to October […]
Progress in reduction of Urban Air Toxics – EPA’s Urban Air Toxics Report to Congress
POV
August 26, 2014
U.S. EPA released the Second Integrated Urban Air Toxics Report to Congress which is the final of two reports required under the Clean Air Act (CAA) to inform Congress of progress in reducing public health risks from urban air toxics. Air toxics, also known as toxic air pollutants or hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), are those […]