Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Seattle plant failure dumps millions of gallons of sewage (Phuong LE, Associated Press ; March 26, 2017) http://bigstory.ap.org/article/3c51a6c1fb9441c8bffb68f969aa915f/seattle-plant-failure-dumps-millions-gallons-sewage 'Major emergency' dumps millions of gallons of raw sewage into Puget Sound (KOMO Staff; February 9, 2017) http://komonews.com/news/local/major-emergency-dumps-millions-of-gallons-of-raw-sewage-into-puget-sound Websites : Pollution in our Waterways ( Puget Soundkeeper ) http://www.pugetsoundkeeper.org/aboutpugetsound/pollution/ Puget Sound and Coastal Monitoring ( Department of Ecology - State of Washington ) http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/eap/pscoastalintro.htm

Localized Analysis Reveals City-Level Drinking Water Violations ( Water & Wastes Digest Magazine ; March 10, 2017) http://www.wwdmag.com/contaminants/localized-analysis-reveals-city-level-drinking-water-violations?eid=286061460&bid=1691022 Drinking Water Quality Remains a Top Priority  (Editorial Team, FluksAqua.com;  November 14, 2016) https://www.fluksaqua.com/blog/en/drinking-water-quality-remains-a-top-priority/ Website : Envirofacts - Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) ( U. S. EPA) https://www3.epa.gov/enviro/facts/sdwis/search.html

The 2017 Dirty Dozen: Strawberries, Spinach Top EWG's List of Pesticides in Produce : Strawberries remain at the top of the Dirty Dozen™ list of the EWG Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™, with spinach jumping to second place in the annual ranking of conventionally grown produce with the most pesticide residues. (Monica AMARELO, Environmental Working Group ; March 8, 2017) Websites: All 48 Fruits and Vegetables with Pesticide Residue Data [ Environmental Working Group (EWG); 2017 ] https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/list.php Summary of the Food Quality Protection Act [ Public Law 104-170 (1996); U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)] https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-food-quality-protection-act Pesticides Data Program [ U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ] https://www.ams.usda.gov/datasets/pdp

Lake worshipped by Incans now littered with trash (Franklin BRICENO, Associated Press ; March 2, 2017) http://bigstory.ap.org/article/a5b68583268b4f7ca85dd9ea4bb6a32a/lake-worshipped-incans-now-littered-trash Losing the Sacred Lake:  Environmental Degradation of Lake Titicaca and the Impact on Surrounding Indigenous Communities (Alexander MONTORO, Ayniglobal.org ; December 14, 2014) http://ayniglobal.org/losing-the-sacred-lake-environmental-degradation-of-lake-titicaca-and-the-impact-on-its-surrounding-indigenous-communities/ Selected Publications: Pb pollution from leaded gasoline in South America in the context of a 2000-year metallurgical history (EICHER  et al. , 2015) http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/2/e1400196/tab-pdf Fractionation of heavy metals and assessment of contamination of the sediments of Lake Titicaca (CÁCERES CHOQUE et al. , 2013) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oswaldo_Ramos_Ramos/publication/256291140_Fractionation_of_heavy_met...