Massive water main break within the City of Dallas. Perhaps tens of millions of gallons of drinking water discharging daily for the past five years into the Great Trinity Forest. No fix from the city. Continuous discharge at thousands of gallons per minute is flooding hundreds of acres of bottomland hardwood floodplain forest lessening our… >> Read More
BLANCO, Texas (KXAN) — City of Blanco Mayor Mike Arnold said the city’s water reserves have refilled enough to serve the city for the next few days under current Stage 6 water restrictions. He attributes the tightened restrictions to maintenance issues the city’s water supplier is facing. Friday, the city issued an emergency notice on… >> Read More
While officials say some of the wastewater has been diverted back to the treatment plant, 10% of the city’s wastewater is still entering the river. A sewer pipe that crosses beneath the Winooski River broke on Wednesday morning and is dumping about 10% of Burlington’s wastewater flow into the flooded river, which will ultimately reach… >> Read More
Due to a lack of water, the state of Arizona has announced that it will not approve any more building permits for single-family homes that rely on wells in Maricopa County, CleanTechnica reported. Like much of the western U.S., Arizona has been facing a huge drought for many years. A shortage of rainfall has led… >> Read More
Students and staff at Merrimack Valley High School were halfway through fourth period when a harsh odor permeated classrooms and hallways throughout the two-story brick building, nestled along a wooded area bordering New Hampshire’s capital city of Concord. The scent was potent and nauseating. And it soon caused trouble, as it sickened one person after… >> Read More