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November 6, 2024

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Category 3 Hurricane Rafael threatens west Cuba, heavy rain and storm surge to impact Florida Keys
HAPPENING NOW
Wednesday, November 6 2024

Why we need a continental approach to source water protection
Interview with Dr. Peter Leavitt, FRSC, Professor University of Regina, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change and Society The technology is available to preserve and maintain water quality in our lakes and rivers. When will social and political will align to protect continental water resources?

Safe Drinking Water Act
EPA Serious Violators List Georgia SDWA Compliance is up for a second quarter in a row: 82.6% to 83.5%

INVASIVE SPECIES SPELL TROUBLE FOR NEW YORK’S BELOVED TAP WATER
Zebra mussels, hydrilla and now a waterflea have made their homes in New Croton Reservoir. - By Lauren Dalban, Inside Climate News
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here.
EPA National Pollution Prevention Training and Conference
December 10 -11, 2024, Washington, D.C.
Register by Nov 1, free to attend in person or remote. Sessions include presentations by P2 experts, participants learn about grants available, reducing pollution and finding alternatives, including some chemicals EPA has regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act.

CWA CrimeBox
Environmental Crimes Historic Conviction: Fiscal Year 2009; Case ID# CR_1954 (California)
Dredge material dumped illegally off Winter Island in violation of Clean Water Act results in $1.5 million penalty
Hazardous Spill File
689370 gallons of sewage released into Chattahoochee Watershed
Tropical Storm Rafael bearing down on Jamaica, intensifying rapidly
AFTER THE CLOSE
Tuesday, November 5 2024
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WATER SHORTAGE
Feuding Neighbors
For more than three decades, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida have disputed the use of two shared river basins, the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT).

RECENT ARTICLES

"THE US IS FACING SIGNIFICANT STRAINS ON ITS WATER SUPPLY", JPMorgan Chase & Co Report - October 2024
Already overstretched, US water resources, are being further stressed by the boom in AI artificial intelligence.

Maintaining drinking water quality through flood and fire
Rockdale County, Georgia During post-hurricane flooding, Biolab chemical fire broke out, spewing a toxic plume

PROMISE MADE; PROMISE KEPT
Canada launches long-awaited national independent agency to manage freshwater - by Julia-Simone Rutgers, The Narwhal
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RECENT REPORTS

Category 3 Hurricane Rafael threatens west Cuba, heavy rain and storm surge to impact Florida Keys
HAPPENING NOW
Wednesday, November 6 2024

Tropical Storm Rafael bearing down on Jamaica, intensifying rapidly
AFTER THE CLOSE
Tuesday, November 5 2024

Potential Tropical Cyclone 18 eyes Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Cuba
AFTER THE CLOSE
Monday, November 4 2024

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SDWA Profiles

Safe Drinking Water Act
EPA Serious Violators List Georgia SDWA Compliance is up for a second quarter in a row: 82.6% to 83.5%

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SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT
Jones County Water
BWA issued following service outage

SAFE DRINKING WATER ACT
North Monroe County Water Big Buck Trail BWA

Safe Drinking Water Act
EPA Serious Violators List Georgia SDWA Compliance is up: 82.6%

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HARMFUL ALGAE BLOOMS

HAB Tracker
AFTER THE CLOSE
Jekyll Island, St Simons beaches testing clean and clear of bacteria

HAB Tracker
from CyAN Cyanobacteria Assessment Network of the US EPA
Jackson Lake, Lake Lanier, Lake Hartwell cyanobacteria cell counts

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SPILLS

Hazardous Spill File
689370 gallons of sewage released into Chattahoochee Watershed

Hazardous Spill File
8 Tonnes of asphalt released in Savannah Watershed

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FLOWS

Streamflow Situation
From the network of USGS real time streamflow monitors in Georgia
Normal streamflows statewide

Streamflow Situation
From the network of USGS real time streamflow monitors in Georgia
Streamflows heading back to seasonal normal statewide

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Crime Box

CWA CrimeBox
Environmental Crimes Historic Conviction: Fiscal Year 2009; Case ID# CR_1954 (California)
Dredge material dumped illegally off Winter Island in violation of Clean Water Act results in $1.5 million penalty

CWA CrimeBox
Environmental Crimes Historic Conviction: Fiscal Year 2009; Case ID# CR_1928 (California)
Oxnard, CA metal finisher sentenced for discharging toxic wastewater to the municipal treatment plant

CWA CrimeBox
Environmental Crimes Historic Conviction: Fiscal Year 2010; Case ID# CR_1919 (California)
Ship Pilot sent to prison, ships owner fined 10 million for collision with San Francisco Bay Bridge tower, more than 2000 migratory birds wiped out including endangered pelicans and murrelets

CWA CrimeBox
Environmental Crimes Historic Conviction: Fiscal Year 2008; Case ID# CR_1824 (California)
Dead ducks found in an oil slick tracked to a vessel in San Diego Bay

CWA CrimeBox
Environmental Crimes Historic Conviction: Fiscal Year 2008; Case ID# CR_1823 (California)
Electroplator pleads guilty to discharging cyanide to Los Angeles public sanitary sewer, sent to prison

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