Environmental Geochemistry Issues Semi-Monthly

EPA Installs Barrier, Valve In Mine That Spilled Toxic Waste : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is installing a barrier and valve inside an inactive Colorado mine to prevent another surge of toxic wastewater like a 2015 blowout that contaminated rivers in three states. (Dan ELLIOTT, Associated Press/CBS Denver Channel 4 News ; September 20, 2017) Yet... Gold King Mine:  EPA Refuses to Pay Spill Damages (Alysa LANDRY, Indian Country Today ; January 16, 2017) https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/environment/gold-king-mine-epa-refuses-pay-spill-damages/ Selected Publications : Understanding the Gold King Mine Spill  (CHIEF et al ., 2016) https://www.superfund.arizona.edu/sites/superfund.arizona.edu/files/u70/understanding_the_gold_king_mine_spill_v13_preamble_final.pdf Post Gold King Mine Spill Investigation of Metal Stability in Water and Sediments of the Animas River Watershed (RODRIGUEZ-FREIRE et al ., 2016) https://www.researchgate.net/profile...

On August 16, 2017, I had the unique opportunity of participating in person at the  "Land Subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley"   - a  Water Education Foundation (WEF) Event - on the CSU Fresno Campus in Fresno, CA. To those who might be interested in the various presentations made by Researchers from the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) , the  National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL) , the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS) , and the Central California Irrigation District,  a copy of the Briefing Agenda and five (5) Power Point presentations may be accessed via the following Water Education Foundation hyperlink: Land Subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley Briefing (August 16, 2017) http://www.watereducation.org/foundation-event/land-subsidence-san-joaquin-valley Also... Melting snowpack and sinking land threaten Valley communities with flooding (Marc BENJAMIN, The Fresno Bee ; April 1, 2017) htt...

Preparing for the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse : On Aug. 21, 2017, the moon will pass in front of the sun and cast a shadow upon all of North America, coast-to-coast, for the first time since 1918. The Great American Eclipse is 2 Weeks Away.  Are you Ready? (Calla COFIELD, Space.com ; August 7, 2017) https://www.space.com/37726-solar-eclipse-2017-2-weeks-away.html Map: Total Solar Eclispe on August 21, 2017  (NASA) https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/eclipse_full_map.pdf Website: NASA - Total Solar Eclipse  https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2017Aug21Tgoogle.html

Hong Kong cleans up greasy beaches after palm oil spill | AFP.com [ Agence France Presse (AFP) ; August 7, 2017] Also... Multiple beaches polluted by spilled palm oil from sunken ship ( Ejinsight.com ; August 7, 2017) http://www.ejinsight.com/20170807-multiple-beaches-polluted-by-spilled-palm-oil-from-sunken-ship/ Map of the Pearl River Estuary ( Xiaoyan Chen Huiwang Gao Xiaohong Yao Zhenhua Chen Hongda Fang Shufeng Ye ; FigShare; 23.07.2013) Soko Islands viewed from Tian Tan Buddha on Lantau  (Millevache, Wikimedia Commons; October 24, 2013) By Millevache - Own work . Cropped version of File:Island from Tian Tan Buddha.JPG by User:Mimihitam , CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link

How Much Drinking Water Has California Lost to Oil Industry Waste?  No One Knows (Lauren SOMMER, KQED Science ; August 3, 2017) https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/08/03/how-much-drinking-water-has-california-lost-to-oil-industry-waste-no-one-knows/

The Poison Papers:  Documenting the Hidden History of Chemical and Pesticide Hazards in the United States https://www.poisonpapers.org/ N. B.:   " The Poison Papers is a project of the Bioscience Resource Project of Ithaca, NY and the Center for Media and Democracy of Madison, WI . Both organisations are 501(c)(3) non-profits." Research Study :   Chemical Time Bomb (Janine COHEN and Karen MICHELMORE,  Four Corners - ABC News Australia ; July 23, 2013) http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/07/22/3806111.htm N. B.:   Examines the historic and continued use of Dioxin containing herbicides and the detrimental impact on human health in Australia. Website:   Tracking Pollutant Release and Transfers in North American:  The North American PRTR Project [ Committee for Environmental Cooperation ( CEC ) ] http://www.cec.org/our-work/projects/tracking-pollutant-releases-and-transfers-north-america-north-american-prtr-project ...

Cal Water advises customers to boil water : Officials said the area bordered by Drake Street on the north, Spruce Street on the east, 21st Street on the south, and Oak Street on the west are the customers being advised to boil their water. (Esteban RAMIREZ, Kern Golden Empire ; July 29, 2017) Bakersfield:  Boil Water Advisory Issued for Small Portion of Cal Water's Bakersfield District ( California Water Service ; July 29, 2017) https://www.calwater.com/2017-0729-bk-boil/