Nicholas Meat can weather a pandemic, but the actual weather is a different story.
The central Pennsylvania meat processing plant temporarily ceased operations at its Loganton plant Feb. 23 following a Department of Environmental Protection compliance order prohibiting the company from applying processing waste to snow-covered fields.
The plant processes about 600 dairy cull cows and bulls each day. Brian Miller, director of sustainability at Nicholas Meat, said DEP has permitted the facility to apply the residual waste, which is mostly wash water, on snowy fields for the last 10 years. But this weekâs order brought the practice to an abrupt halt.
Repairs in progress after sewer main break spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage into street of N.J. town
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
Posted Feb 26, 2021
A truck cleans up Dudley Avenue in Ventnor on Thursday, days after a sewer line break spilled millions of gallons in to the streets in the Atlantic County city.Atlantic County Utilities Authority
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With three of the six locations near the Wellington Avenue break still showing elevated levels of bacteria, the shellfish harvesting ban in the Lakes Bay area put into place by the state Department of Environmental Protection remains in place, the Atlantic County Utilities Authority said.
State officials discuss water infrastructure funding
Participants at Wednesday’s discussion on water infrastructure funding, which was organized by the Franklin Regional Council of Governments, Pioneer Valley Planning Commission and Berkshire Regional Planning Commission. Screenshot
Published: 2/25/2021 6:42:28 PM
State and local officials met remotely Wednesday night to discuss the importance of locating funding to support local and regional water suppliers and treatment facilities.
“While we often don’t think enough about our water and wastewater infrastructure, and it’s sometimes not the most exciting topic on the table, I think it’s easy to agree that the work of local and regional wastewater utilities has never been more critical,” said Kathleen Theoharides, secretary of the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs.
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Heating oil spill at Donna Barron s home
Barron reflected Wednesday on her range of emotions since she first learned of the hazardous waste spill. I look back at the video of the first story and I was devastated. I was so worried and there was stress all over my face, Barron said. And now, I m just ecstatic! I m so happy it s closed and got resolved. Thank you for your help. I could never have done that without you.
Even worse, the catastrophes are often not covered by home insurance because most policies have a pollution exclusion.
As a result, homeowners are forced to clean out retirement savings or college funds for intensive projects that sometimes require moving homes off their foundations.