Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Danish 'environmental catastrophe' kept quiet ( Metroexpress . dk / The   Local.dk; February 26, 2016) http://www.thelocal.dk/20160226/danish-environmental-catastrophe-kept-quiet Original Danish Article: Brand i Fredericia var skyline i udledning af flare tusind ton gødning http://www.mx.dk/nyheder/danmark/story/21387569

Sustainable Groundwater Management (SGM) Program -  California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Websites: Groundwater Sustainability Emergency Regulations http://www.water.ca.gov/groundwater/sgm/gsp.cfm Sustainable Groundwater Management Act ( SGMA ) http://www.water.ca.gov/cagroundwater/legislation.cfm Statewide Map:  Critically Overdrafted Groundwater Basins   ( January 2016 ) http://www.water.ca.gov/groundwater/sgm/pdfs/GW_basinsCriticalOverdraft_CA.pdf California DWR Draft Reports: Sustainable Groundwater Management Act Draft Emergency Regulations for Groundwater Sustainability Plans and Alternatives ( February 18, 2016 ) http://www.water.ca.gov/groundwater/sgm/pdfs/DRAFT_GSP_Emergency_Regulations_021816.pdf Groundwater Sustainability Program:  Draft Strategic Plan ( March 9, 2015 ) http://www.water.ca.gov/groundwater/sgm/pdfs/DWR_GSP_DraftStrategicPlanMarch2015.pdf N. B.:   Public review and written comment submissions reg...

City of Bakersfield set to reinstate old water wells due to lack of surface water (Kurt KELSEY, KGET TV 17 News ; February 18, 2016) http://www.kerngoldenempire.com/news/city-of-bakersfield-set-to-reinstate-old-water-wells-due-to-lack-of-surface-water Arvin water district working on long term solution that includes new wells (Steven HICKS, KERO TV 23 News ; April 15, 2015) http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/arvin-water-district-working-on-longterm-solution-that-includes-new-wells?autoplay=true Map:  Central Valley's Arsenic Contamination (2006 - 2013) (Aubrey Ann PARKER, circleofblue.org ; May 6, 2014) http://www.circleofblue.org/waternews/2014/world/arsenic-post/ Reports: Communities that Rely on Contaminated Groundwater Source for Drinking Water ( California Water Boards ; January 2013) http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/gama/ab2222/docs/ab2222.pdf California's Contaminated Groundwater:  Is the State Minding the Store? (HELPERIN et al., 2001) https://www.nrdc...

EPA :  Mine spill dumped 888,000 pounds of metals in river (Dan ELLIOTT,  Associated Press ; February 5, 2016) http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2ed4e26cb9dc4120bb530d598f334bf9/epa-mine-spill-dumped-880000-pounds-metals-river EPA Updates Flint Response Website with Interactive Map, Chlorine Sampling Results ( Water and Wastes Digest ; February 1, 2016) http://www.wwdmag.com/epa-updates-flint-response-website-interactive-map-chlorine-sampling-results?eid=286061460&bid=1297314 N. B. :  For background information on the Gold King Mine Spill  (Colorado) and Flint's Water Contamination (Michigan), please refer to "Blog Archives"  for former blog posts under the following listed dates: October 7, 2015 August 10, 2015 August 6, 2015

First research links California quakes in oil operations (Ellen KNICKMEYER, Associated Press ; February 4, 2016) http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a34e52dbfc0d4160911052821df8ed73/first-research-links-california-quakes-oil-operations Study:  Oil field operations caused California Earthquakes (David R. BAKER, SFGate ; February 4, 2016) http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Study-Oil-field-operations-caused-California-6808015.php Selected  Articles : NEW :  Oklahoma's induced seismicity strongly linked to wastewater injection depth (HINCKS et al. , 2018) http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2018/01/31/science.aap7911.full Human-Induced Earthquakes from Deep-Well Injection:  A Brief Overview (FOLGER and TIEMANN, 2015) https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43836.pdf Myths and Facts on Waste Water Injection, Hydraulic Fracturing, Enhanced Oil Recovery, and Induced Seismicity  (RUBINSTEIN and MAHANI, 2015) https://scits.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

Highly efficient heavy metal ions filter (Peter RÜEGG, ETH Zürich News ;January 25, 2016) https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2016/01/highly-efficient-heavy-metal-ions-filter.html

Fog Transports Mercury to Shore (Jillian KEMSLEY, Chemical & Engineering News ; January 25, 2016) http://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i4/Fog-Transports-Mercury-Shore-Studies.html?h=-5168616 Mercury-laden fog swirls over coastal California, Scientists find [Cheryl DYBAS, National Science Foundation (NSF); August 26, 2015] http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=136056 Research Articles: Total and monomethyl mercury in fog water from the Central California Coast (WEISS-PENZIAS et al., 2012) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1029/2011GL050324/asset/grl28862.pdf?v=1&t=ik4iu3al&s=ae8c5664374e809260c1eeeb888edbb61e4ffdd0 Total and Monomethyl Mercury in Terrestrial Arthropods from the Central California Coast (ORTIZ et al., 2014) http://fognet.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Ortiz-Weiss-Penzias-Total-and-MMHg-in-terrestrial-arthropods-from-central-calif-coast-Bull-Environ-Contam-Toxicol-2014.pdf Video:    Dr. Kenneth Coale pr...

Stephen Hume: Effluent linked to contaminated water in Okanagan ( The   Vancouver Sun ; February 1, 2016)