Jul 12
Well, well, well… this is quite the deep subject: In rural Pennsylvania, over a million private wells serve about three and a half million people. The bad news is about half of those wells fail to meet at least one of the EPA’s safe drinking water standards. Diane Oleson of Penn State Extension says many …
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Jan 31
We’re getting a bit salty in this episode… listen up! Salt helps keep winter roads safe. But when snow melts, the salt runs off pavement and can end up in waterways. John Jackson is with the Stroud Water Research Center in Pennsylvania. In the lab, he’s studied the toxicity of salt on mayflies – a …
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Aug 15
—Brooke Kansier, Great Lakes Echo* It might not be as addictive as Candy Crush, but a new EPA app could have big implications for water management and the people who drink, swim or fish within the Great Lakes. The yet-unnamed app will detect blooms of cyanobacteria—a photosynthetic microbe often mistaken for algae and responsible for …
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Jul 25
From your spray bottle to our shared waters, common cleaning toxins can dirty up waterways big time—listen up: Household hazards, oh my! It all comes out in the wash with common household cleaners, according to Aislinn Gauchay, assistant director of the Shedd Aquarium’s sustainability program. The fact is, harsh cleaning chemicals as well as pesticides …
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Apr 16
—Morgan Linn, Great Lakes Echo* Levels of hazardous flame retardants in most Great Lakes fish are declining—or at least researchers thought they were. But a new study shows that this isn’t the case for Lake Erie smallmouth bass, an important game fish. And the contaminated fish threatens the health of some of those who eat them. …
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