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Peter Rubins: Muskie’s Androscoggin: To ‘B’ or not to ‘B.’ That is the question
City government, industry and environmentalists have worked for 50 years to improve the river’s quality. We are now petitioning the Department of Environmental Protection and Legislature to reclassify the river from the lowest class, C, up to Class B.
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Peter Rubins
The Androscoggin River was one of the top 10 polluted rivers in the country in 1972 when our senator from Rumford, Ed Muskie, pushed through the Clean Water Act. The Lower River now is the poster child for the Clean Water Act, with data showing that it has met Class B for the past 20 years 99% of the time.
Falmouth residents soon will be restricted to watering their lawns on certain days of the week in an effort to conserve the lower-than-normal town water supply.
As its meeting on Monday, April 26, the select board approved the restrictions based on a proposal by the department of public works.
âWeâre hoping the restrictions eliminate 50 percent of the water demand and conserves a couple million gallons of water,â Water Superintendent Cathal OâBrien said.
Starting Saturday, May 1, odd-numbered homes will be permitted to use automatic sprinklers on their property on Saturdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays, and even-numbered homes will be permitted to use sprinklers on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. No one may use lawn sprinklers on Mondays.
PAHOKEE The bloom spread like an aging bruise at the Pahokee Marina this month, turning green goo on the water’s surface to shades of teal as cyanobacteria cells broke open, releasing toxins 100 times higher than what’s considered harmful to humans.
In the nooks and crannies along the edges of Lake Okeechobee, algae-sensing NOAA satellite images tell a similar story or show there’s potential for a blue-green algae bloom as summer days stretch and temperatures warm.
On Wednesday morning, Florida Department of Environmental Protection water test results from the marina came back showing 860 parts per billion, or ppb, of the toxin microcystin – a potent poison that can kill pets that swim in it and cause respiratory, skin and digestion problems in humans. A mid-April toxin reading of 120 ppb was measured at Port Mayaca.