Camp Lejeune Contamination – Health Impacts Not Fully Understood
By Scott Simonton In 1997 I ended up in the ER, and then admitted to the hospital, after I developed some significant pain in my feet and ankles along with a graying of the skin there. Over the next several days, the pain got worse, spread to my knees, and I was tested for everything […]
PFAS and EPA Standards
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/4-questions-about-the-epas-proposed-pfas-drinking-water-standard-answered
PFAS…The Dreaded Forever Contaminant
New Palestine Derailment…A Tale Repeated
The nearly five thousand residents of New Palestine, Ohio, in northeast Ohio near the Pennsylvania border, awoke on February 3 to the screeching metallic thunder of a trainwreck when 38 cars of a 159 car-long Norfolk and Southern train derailed, rupturing eleven tankers. A million pounds of vinyl chloride, butyl acrylate, ethylhexyl acrylate, and ethylene […]
We've Come A Long Way, But . . .
By Scott Simonton, PE, PhD My great-grandfather was a farmer in WV, on land near the Big Sandy River and the Kentucky border. The details of the story that’s in my mind – I think from my grandmother and from his death certificate – was that one day during the winter of 1923/1924, he travelled […]
Tougher than you think! – Maintaining a Quality Water Supply
Polar Vortexes, Bomb Cyclones, Atmospheric Rivers….all examples of some recent crazy weather patterns that have caused undue stress on Drinking Water processes throughout the continent. Most recently the folks in Jackson Mississippi have once again had to “go without” as their stressed treatment systems froze up in the extreme cold front just before Christmas last […]
Clean Drinking Water is a Human Right
Clean drinking #water is a human right because humans with human rights can’t live without drinking water. That this even needs to be explained in a public policy sense is a measure of nothing good — @CharlesPPierce #ColoradoRiver #COriver
