The News Review:

- Dry California Sucks Up Federal Water Recycling Dollars
- Suit filed over contaminated water at NC base
- States digging deep to monitor water
- Take control of distilled water supply
- California may adopt more lenient gray water code in August
- Special Report: Hydraulic fracturing water use issues under …
- Looking at Mozingo Lake: city water supply

Dry California Sucks Up Federal Water Recycling Dollars
Environment News Service
Projects cover a broad range of recycling reuse and recovery activities which met federal criteria for funding. The largest single amount $20 million will fund the first phase of the City of xnard’s Groundwater Recovery Enhancement and Treatment program. This long-range water supply strategy aims to combine wastewater recycling groundwater injection and groundwater desalination to make more efficient use of existing local water resources to meet projected water supply needs of the city through 2020. Nearly as much $17. 7 million will fund three projects in the Irvine Ranch Water District which serves a population of 330000 in and around the range County city of Irvine south of Los Angeles. IRWD’s philosophy is that “water is too valuable to be used just once. ” Recycled water now makes up 20 percent of IRWD’s total water supply.

Suit filed over contaminated water at NC base
The Associated Press
District Court for 45-year-old Laura Jones. It says she has lymphoma and now lives in Iowa. The woman’s attorneys allege that chemicals in water at Camp Lejeune had caused health problems including cancers reproductive disorders and birth defects. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages. A government report earlier this month found tainted water at Camp Lejeune between the 1950s and 1985 can’t definitively be linked to health problems. A Marines spokesman didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment. Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press.

States digging deep to monitor water
The Associated Press
(AP) — About a quarter mile into dense woods geologists watch as a drilling rig twists a shaft deep into the granite bedrock of southeastern New Hampshire. They are searching for water — not to drink — but to watch. State and federal agencies have been watching or monitoring lakes and rivers for more than a century but less attention has gone to vast amounts of water in cracks and rock fissures deep underground leaving a void in understanding a resource growing in importance as demands for water increase and surface water sources are being used to the fullest in many areas. New Hampshire is drilling a series of wells to monitor groundwater in cracks in granite hundreds of feet below the surface. The goal is to allow scientists to check for contamination; learn about how long it takes for rainfall or melting snow to make its way into the supply; and keep tabs on how climate change population growth and development affect the water. State Geologist David Wunsch would like to share the information as part of a nationwide network.

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California may adopt more lenient gray water code in August
Los Angeles Times
Under the new code a clothes washer or other single-fixture residential gray water system such as a shower could be installed or altered without a construction permit. That?s a complete reversal of the present state requirement that homeowners installing systems to recycle the waste water from their sinks showers bathtubs and laundry machines conform to Appendix G of the California plumbing code which requires that gray water systems not only be permitted by the appropriate administrative authority but installed underground with extensive filtering apparatus. Appendix G went into effect in 1992 at the end of a five-year drought. Its update was required by Senate Bill 1258 which passed last summer requiring the state's Department of Housing and Community Development to revise the code in an effort "to conserve water by facilitating greater reuse of graywater in California.
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Special Report: Hydraulic fracturing water use issues under …
il & Gas Journal
This includes discussion about adopting additional protective measures where fracturing activity occurs in close proximity to drinking water sources. Constructive dialogue will require input from legislators regulators industry environmental organizations and community stakeholders to evaluate the existing extensive state regulatory frameworks and to ensure that any new federal laws and regulations provide needed additional environmental protection not just an added layer of permitting paperwork and unproductive use of public agency resources. Protecting waterWater resources are protected from surface operations by a host of federal state and local regulatory programs. Notably some operators exceed these regulatory requirements. An example is the installation of secondary containment (steel plastic earthen material or some combination) at drilling and production sites around virtually all equipment containing liquids not just oil. Many operators store produced fluids in steel tanks rather than earthen pits as a means of staging for recycling or for proper waste disposal. This practice eliminates spillage and overflow of pits in case of excessive rainfall and unforeseen soil saturation if protective liners fail.

Looking at Mozingo Lake: city water supply
Maryville Daily Forum
Aside from individual connections those customers include the state Department of Corrections facility near the lake the abbey at Conception the convent at Clyde and several smaller towns in the area including Guilford Pickering and Quitman. Hopkins and Burlington Junction are possible customers in emergency situations. “We received certification from the DNR (Missouri Department of Natural Resources) in 2004 for our new water treatment plant” Decker said. The rated capacity of that facility is five million gallons of water per day. “The water from the lake is a great resource for the city from a quality as well as a quantity standpoint” Decker said noting that additives are necessary to enable the natural impurities to be removed effectively. “We actually ‘dirty’ the water so we can clean it” he said. What effect does water the city pulls from Mozingo have on the lake itself? “This time of year we’ll have a quarter to a half inch of evaporation which is more than we’ll use in any given day” Decker said.