The News Review:

- Brockovich: Midland Texas Water Sullied
- deaths at Miami Children’s Hospital traced to water supply
- Lisa Madigan: Crestwood officials lied about tainted well
- Radioactive leak contained at Dresden nuclear power plant …
- Governor EPD ease outdoor water use schedules
- Former lab owner accused of filing phony water tests
- Just add water: Normally dry Chelan River gets wet

Brockovich: Midland Texas Water Sullied
CBS News
They have both been diagnosed with kidney problems. “It’s kind of odd that two members of the same household basically have the same problem” Johnson said. Both Saythre and Johnson now have state-monitored filters on their water supply. But the main concern for residents is finding the culprit. Bob Bowcock an environmental investigator believes the source of the contamination is Schlumberger an oil field services company. The Early Show asked Schlumberger for comment and the company said in a statement: “Chromium has not been used in any of the processes performed at the Schlumberger facilities in Midland Texas and independent water samplings indicate that the source is likely an adjacent site unrelated or our facilities. No lawsuits have been filed and the state is still investigating.

deaths at Miami Children’s Hospital traced to water supply
MiamiHerald.com
comp –> Two infants who died and one who was sickened at Miami Children’s Hospital in March were infected with a common yet deadly bacteria a county health department investigation concluded Wednesday. The infections occurred in the hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit where premature and severly ill infants are cared for. The Miami-Dade Health Department report traced the bacteria Psudomonas aeruginosa to the unit’s water supply and said the hospital lacked policies for routine inspections of plumbing did not systematically flush the system and didn’t take part in the county’s twice-yearly free chlorine purge program that is aimed at cutting such infections. The bacteria is widespread in nature and found in water soil plants and animals and can be deadly to infants with compromised immune systems. The two who died and one who was sickened all were born extremely prematurely. The bacteria’s spread in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit was wider than initially reported infecting 14 of 36 infants although none besides the three became ill the report said. The report recommends that the hospital initiate monthly checks of water quality train its staff in infection control closely monitor chlorine levels and use the county’s twice-yearly chlorine purge.

Lisa Madigan: Crestwood officials lied about tainted well
Chicago Tribune
EPA inspectors questioned him after discovering the well water could be pumped untreated into the village’s distribution system. Nine days after the Tribune’s investigation was published Robert Stranczek and his lawyer gave Madigan’s office a chart confirming the newspaper’s account of how much water the village had drawn from the well. The monthly amount ranged from about 3 percent to as high as 20 percent of Crestwood’s total water supply. In an April 24 interview with the Tribune Stranczek acknowledged he has known about the use of the well since at least 1997 when he became a village trustee. He was appointed mayor in 2007 when his father retired. Efforts to reach the Stranczeks and Scaccia for comment about the lawsuit were not successful but in a statement the village said Crestwood’s drinking water always was safe to drink. “The village has been closely cooperating with the Illinois EPA in its investigation and it will continue to do so” it said.

Radioactive leak contained at Dresden nuclear power plant …
Chicago Tribune
The leak is not believed to have left the 1700-acre plant site which is not far from the Kankakee and. Exelon officials said leaked tritium has not entered the public water supply. But the company hasn’t found the cause or source of the leak.
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Governor EPD ease outdoor water use schedules
The Daily Citizen
I believe Georgians will continue to use our water resources wisely under this new outdoor watering schedule. ”Under a non-drought schedule outdoor water use is allowed three days a week on assigned days using odd and even-numbered addresses. dd-numbered addresses can water on Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays. Even-numbered and unnumbered addresses are allowed to water on Mondays Wednesdays and Saturdays. Water use may occur at any time of the day on the assigned days however landscape watering is discouraged between 10 a.

Former lab owner accused of filing phony water tests
Boston Globe
was indicted by a Middlesex grand jury yesterday on 50 counts of making false reports to the Department of Environmental Protection two counts of larceny under $250 and two counts of larceny over $250 said a joint statement from the ffice of the Attorney General and the Department of Environmental Protection. He is accused of filing false reports for a number of municipalities including Ashby Chicopee Harvard and Lawrence authorities said. The agency had partially decertified Thorstensen Laboratory in August 2007 and March 2008 prohibiting it from conducting several tests on water supplies. The action followed routine on-site inspections by the Department of Environmental Protection the statement said. At that time Carlson told the agency he would subcontract those tests to other certified labs the authorities said. In December of 2008 the state agency’s Laboratory Certification Program conducted an unannounced enforcement inspection and revoked Thorstensen Laboratory’s entire certification to conduct tests on water supplies and wastewater. A subsequent investigation by the Massachusetts Environmental Crimes Strike Force found that Carlson was not subcontracting out water tests according to the authorities.

Just add water: Normally dry Chelan River gets wet
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Work under way at the dam will allow a permanent year-round flow to start in ctober for the first time since the dam was built in the 1920s. The spawning seasons for steelhead and chinook salmon don’t correspond to the spill season when river flows are higher. The PUD will supply higher flows that fish need by pumping water to the head of the new channel. Work began on the project last June. It’s part of the utility’s new 50-year federal license to operate Lake Chelan Dam. —Information from: The Wenatchee World.