Items Tagged with 'environmental cleanup'

DC Water CEO David Gadis cited long-term access easements, standardized permitting timelines and better regulator field coordination "to prevent a recurrence of the failure," but one stakeholder lamented there was no conclusive spill cause or 'clear plan' to avoid future ones.

Separate lawsuits claim delayed repairs and neglect resulted in release of hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage from the Potomac Interceptor pipeline earlier this year.

D.C. mayor’s declared disaster site gets additional federal help, while utility DC Water predicts repairs to finish in mid-March—but longer-term costs and impact concerns remain.

Utility DC Water is boosting efforts to repair ruptured 72-in. sewer line, the largest untreated wastewater spill in U.S. history, according to experts, with as much as 300 million gallons released into the river. 

Proposed cuts would amount to a $163B decrease in discretionary spending from the enacted 2025 budget.

Administrator Lee Zeldin called for Mexico to work with the U.S. to finally end sewage flows from Tijuana into southern San Diego County. 

Most of the money will go toward the costs of the ongoing cleanup following the derailment in last year East Palestine.

Remediation will target PCBs, petroleum compounds and heavy metals inone of the most polluted areas of the U.S.

Water systems, and their design and construction experts, boost efforts to eliminate contamination from ubiquitous 'forever’ chemicals, a key component of widely used firefighting foam runoff—as federal rules, technologies and costs catch up.

The Dept. of Defense plans to shutter Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Hawaii move forward with the state's conditional approval.