Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

San Joaquin River Valley Watershed by Shannon1 ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Free bottled water is coming up to 42,000 Stanislaus-area homes with tainted wells (John HOLLAND, Modesto   Bee ; April 19, 2021 https://www.modbee.com/news/business/agriculture/article250508234.html Selected Publications: Effect of Groundwater Age and Recharge Source on Nitrate Concentrations in Domestic Wells in the San Joaquin Valley (CASTALDO et al., 2021) https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.0c03071 Spatiotemporal variation of nitrate concentrations in soil and groundwater of an intensely polluted agricultural area (NAKAGAWA et al. , 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82188-2 Groundwater development leads to decreasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California (HAUGEN et al. , 2021) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721002898 Measuring nitrate leaching across the critical zone at field to farm scale  (GUREVICH  et al. , 2020) htt...

Update: Congress Urged to Investigate Huge Wastewater Release, Threat of Catastrophic Collapse of Florida's Piney Point Phosphogypsum Stack   (Press Release, Center for Biological Diversity ; April 12, 2021) https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/congress-urged-to-investigate-huge-wastewater-release-threat-of-catastrophic-collapse-of-floridas-piney-point-phosphogypsum-stack-2021-04-12/ _______ Dumping of polluted wastewater from Piney Point continues.  DEP working to treat water (Zac ANDERSON and Jesse MENDOZA, Sarasota Herald-Tribune; April 7, 2021) https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/disaster/2021/04/07/suncoast-water-keeper-tampa-bay-water-keeper-say-florida-dep-failed-on-piney-point/7117166002/ USF Scientists testing the waters to study the effects of Piney Point Reservoir release (Leda ALVIM, The USF Oracle ; April 7, 2021) http://www.usforacle.com/2021/04/07/usf-scientists-testing-the-waters-to-study-effects-of-piney-point-reservoir-release/ Crews Dr...