Erosion News Articles

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• To clean up Great Lakes, Barack Obama pledges $475 million for next year
  Cleaning up toxic substances and "areas of concern": $146.9 million, or 31 percent. The EPA will control most of the spending ($113.9 million), reducing toxins, including PCBs, mercury, dioxin and pesticides. The Army Corps of Engineers will get another $10 million for this task, and with other agencies will help remove contaminated sediment and other industrial pollution that hampers places like the Cuyahoga and Ashtabula rivers and Lake Erie harbors.
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• Soil erosion slowed with smart planting
  With many parts of the country experience a fairly damp spring this year, Cheryl and I are getting a lot of enquiries about plants that don't mind having wet feet.
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• Government bill regulating contaminated soils in Catalonia
  The region of Catalonia in Spain has developed a Government bill regulating Contaminated Soils in order to comply with both National Law 10/1998 of 21st April on Waste, and Royal Decree 9/2005 of 14th January, by which it is established the list of soil polluting activities and the standard criteria to declare a soil as contaminated.
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• USDA extends certain CRP contracts
  Colorado
  Gary Wall, acting state executive director of USDA's Farm Service Agency in Colorado, announced May 13 that FSA will offer certain producers the opportunity to modify and extend their Conservation Reserve Program contracts that are scheduled to expire on Sept. 30.
  "USDA is committed to safeguarding the nation's natural resources and this program will help protect millions of acres of American topsoil from erosion and enhance the quality of our water," said Wall.
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• Inlet sand-stoppers don’t come cheap
  Backers of terminal groins already face a formidable coalition of state regulators, environmentalists and coastal scientists arguing against using hardened structures to fight chronic erosion around volatile inlets.
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• Push is on for full cleanup of NY nuclear site
  By CAROLYN THOMPSON | Associated Press Writer
  May 29, 2009
  BUFFALO, N.Y. - With a little more than a week left to be heard in the decades-old debate over how to clean up a western New York nuclear site, supporters of complete decontamination say anything less would jeopardize the health of the Great Lakes and its vital freshwater.
  State and federal energy officials in November recommended a two-phase plan that would have them spend $1 billion to remove contaminated buildings and soil from the West Valley site over the next several years, while deferring for up to 30 years the larger question of whether to leave some radioactive waste forever buried.
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• Radon problem cannot be ruled out in the houses of Ranchi city in India. American Chronicle
  Earth has many ways to kill us. We keep on the lookout, and rightly so, for volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides, flooding, cosmic impacts, climate change and falling rocks on the highway. Should we still worry about radon
  You remember radon—that radioactive gas that comes up from the soil and collects in basements and ground floors, sometimes in well water. Radon is a prominent villain in many countries. Blamed for tens of thousands of deaths from lung cancer. Like asbestos, radon was looked at more kindly when it was new, and today it too is more feared than it deserves.
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• Base NC's coastal protection on science, not monied interests
  If the North Carolina Senate has its way, decades of sound coastal management will be sacrificed to benefit owners of exclusive beachfront houses, most of which are investment properties or second homes.
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• Beachfront Management Act from the S.C. Code of Laws
  Title 48 - Environmental Protection and Conservation
  CHAPTER 39.
  COASTAL TIDELANDS AND WETLANDS
  SECTION 48-39-250. Legislative findings regarding the coastal beach/dune system.
  The General Assembly finds that:
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• Cause of water reservoir cracking revealed
  A thorough analysis by consulting engineers revealed the cause of soil-cement cracking to be high water pressures underneath the reservoir’s erosion control liner, according to a report issued on Friday, June 5.
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• Stalled projects leave muddy mess
  Bulldozers stopped in mid-scrape, exposing raw, red dirt at the Gwinnett County site. When it rains, silt and mud wash into a nearby stream, threatening fish and other aquatic life.
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• Mitigation Banking Factsheet
  Mitigation bank is a wetland, stream, or other aquatic resource area that has been restored, established, enhanced, or (in certain circumstances) preserved for the purpose of providing compensation for unavoidable impacts to aquatic resources permitted under Section 404 or a similar state or local wetland regulation. A mitigation bank may be created when a government agency, corporation, nonprofit organization, or other entity undertakes these activities under a formal agreement with a regulatory agency. Mitigation banks have four distinct components:
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• Review: Wetlands 'Exposé' Misses the Mark
  6 June 2009 | The US government policy of 'no net loss' for wetlands is one of the most significant parts of the Clean Water Act, and so one of the key elements of our environmental law. Done right, it protects and restores some of the nation's most valuable ecosystems; done wrong, it can provide "green wash" cover to the decline of these same ecosystems. For these and other reasons, it's about time someone provided non-specialists with a detailed but jargon-free examination of this exciting field's successes and failures. Unfortunately, this isn't the agenda of Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss.
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• Decision Taken on Nation's Largest Lead-Tainted Neighborhood
  The selected final remedy with an estimated capital cost of $236.6 million "addresses the principal current and potential risks to human health and the environment," says the EPA in the Record of Decision.
  The remedy involves excavation, backfilling, and revegetation of lead-contaminated residential soils in the 9,966 residential properties where the lead levels exceed 400 parts per million.
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