Tuesday s Afternoon Update | 5/11/2021
What a no-show El Niño might mean for this year s hurricane season
This week is National Hurricane Preparedness Week. It’s a chance for people to get a head start on their prep for this year’s Atlantic hurricane season. And according to the tropical storm experts at Colorado State University it’s going to be a busy one. Their latest forecast is for 17 named storms during the season, which runs from June 1 to November 30. Of those 17, researchers expect eight to become hurricanes and four to reach major hurricane strength. More from the WLRNand Florida Politics.
Hudson Reporter
Lawsuit filed against Secaucus business
Suit alleges Wilenta Feed, Inc. violated the state’s Water Pollution Control Act ×
Wilenta Feed Inc. at 46 Henry Street in Secaucus, via Google Maps.
Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Acting Commissioner Shawn LaTourette have announced the filing of nine new environmental enforcement actions, including seven to hold polluters accountable for contamination in environmentally overburdened communities.
Seven lawsuits address pollution in Secaucus, Kearny, Camden, Trenton, Edison, Bridgeton and Egg Harbor City. Two cases are based in Butler and Vineland.
The complaints involve a broad range of alleged environmental abuses by the defendant property owners and other responsible parties. They include illegal dumping that allowed massive quantities of contaminated soil, construction and demolition debris, along with contaminated tires and other refuse, to accumulate
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending April 30th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US rose by 60 billion cubic feet to 1,958 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 345 billion cubic feet, or 15.0% below the 2,303 billion cubic feet that were in storage on April 30th of last year, and 61 billion cubic feet, or 3.0% below the five-year average of 2,019 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 30th of April in recent years..the 60 billion cubic feet that were added to US natural gas storage this week was more than the average forecast of a 51 billion cubic foot addition from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts, but was well below the average addition of 81 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been injected into natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, as well as well below the 103 billion cubic feet added to natural
Wrightsville official: Let s get out of the water and sewer business
York Dispatch
Increasing debt service charges tacked onto monthly sewer and water bills have resulted in Wrightsville officials considering selling the borough s assets, an official said Monday.
A meeting slated for 7 p.m. Wednesday at the John Wright Restaurant, located at 234 N. Front St., invites borough residents and municipal officials to discuss the issue.
The meeting is to provide information, and no official government deliberation will occur, according to Borough Council President Eric White, who organized the meeting. I believe there is no future in owning the water and sewer business, White said Monday. (The residents) know I m trying to lower the water and sewer bills. Our people need relief now.
American Aquafarmsâ discharge estimates spark questions
GOULDSBORO â Hancock County residents late last week got an abstract picture of how American Aquafarms would draw and discharge sea water and dispose of waste from its proposed operation in Frenchman Bay.
But when citizens asked, the Norwegian-backed company failed to specify by whom and exactly where in the world the closed-pen technology is being used in real time commercially to grow and successfully harvest Atlantic salmon for the global market.
At a three hour-plus online public meeting last week, American Aquafarms Vice President Eirik Jors, Portland-headquartered Ransom Consulting Engineers and Scientistsâ Senior Project Manager Elizabeth Ransom and civil engineer and computer modeler Nathan Dill provided a detailed blueprint showing how American Aquafarms would discharge a total of 2 billion gallons of circulated water (23,775 gallons per second) daily from the two 15-pen sites northwest of Long Porcu