Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

Groundwater over-pumping is reducing San Joaquin Valley's ability to store water (Ker THAN, Stanford News ; April 12, 2017) http://news.stanford.edu/2017/04/12/groundwater-overuse-cuts-san-joaquin-valleys-water-storage-ability/ Selected Publications: Water Stress and a Changing San Joaquin Valley (HANAK  et al. , 2017) http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R_0317EHR.pdf Water Availability and Land Subsidence in the Central Valley, California, USA (FAUNT et al. , 2016) https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10040-015-1339-x.pdf Land Subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley, CA USA, 2007 - 2014 (SNEED and BRANDT, 2015) https://www.proc-iahs.net/372/23/2015/piahs-372-23-2015.pdf Permanent scatterer InSAR reveals seasonal and long-term aquifer system response to groundwater pumping and artificial recharge (BELL et al. , 2008) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2007WR006152/epdf

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...

Update: Michigan Agrees To Pay $600 Million To Flint Residents Over Water Debacle (Bill CHAPPELL, NPR ; August 20, 2020) https://www.npr.org/2020/08/20/904258763/michigan-will-pay-600-million-to-flint-residents-over-water-debacle ______________ Flint residents must start paying for water they still can't drink without a filter (Brady DENNIS, The Washington Post ; February 28, 2017) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/02/28/flint-residents-must-start-paying-for-water-they-still-cant-drink-without-a-filter/?utm_term=.f58265275b64 Commission:  'Systemic racism' at root of Flint Water Crisis (Jeff KAROUB, Associated Press ; February 17, 2017) http://bigstory.ap.org/article/df42de2ec4424193866467a2981ccb51/commission-systemic-racism-root-flint-water-crisis Flint residents still can't drink the water 1,000 days into the crisis (Bryce COVERT, ThinkProgress.org ; January 27, 2017) https://thinkprogress.org/flint-water-still-not-safe...

Signs of Tijuana Sewage Flow a Long Time Ago (Vincent FARNSWORTH,  San Diego Reader ; February 26, 2017) http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/feb/26/stringers-signs-tijuana-sewage-flow-long-time-ago/ Tracking Trash Across the U. S.- Mexico Border and Developping a Sustainable Water Future for the Tijuana Watershed on Agenda for March 2 Public Meeting in Imperial Beach, CA [Press Release, International Boundary & Water Commission (IBWC) ; February 9, 2017] https://www.ibwc.gov/Files/Press_release_020917.pdf Selected Publication: Wastewater Collection Rehabilitation for Main Lines in Tijuana, Mexico (Environmental Assessment, U. S. EPA ; February 4, 2014) https://archive.epa.gov/region9/nepa/web/pdf/tijuana-ww-draft-environmental-assessment.pdf Website: International Boundary and Water Commision/Comision Internacional de Limites y Aguas https://www.ibwc.gov/