Significant fish kill brings foul smell to Winter Springs neighborhood
Some people living in Winter Springs say the past few weeks have been filled with foul air because of a fish kill. Share Updated: 8:01 PM EST Jan 20, 2021
Significant fish kill brings foul smell to Winter Springs neighborhood
Some people living in Winter Springs say the past few weeks have been filled with foul air because of a fish kill. Share Updated: 8:01 PM EST Jan 20, 2021
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Show Transcript SUMMER: WESH 2’S DAVE MCDANIEL LOOKS AT HOW STATE ENVIRONMENTAL OFFICIALS ARE WORKING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WHAT LED TO THE MESS. DAVE DEAD FISH LINING THE : SHORLINE, A FILM ON THE WATER. I NOTICED WHEN THE SPRINKLERS WOULD RUN IT’S THE SMELL OF SEWE DAVE: JAY NEWCOMER, HIS WIFE AND NEIGHBORS WERE HORRIFIED EARLY THIS MONTH. THE POND IN WHAT USED TO BE THE GOLF COURSE BEHIND THEIR HOME IN THE HIGHLANDS AREA OF WINTER SPRINGS WENT FROM GORGEOUS TO DISGUSTING.
New West Virginia environmental secretary appointed
January 21, 2021 GMT
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice appointed Harold Ward as the state’s new environmental secretary on Wednesday.
The Department of Environmental Protection is in charge of regulating everything from air and water quality to overseeing abandoned mine lands.
Ward was most recently deputy secretary of operations and director of the mining and reclamation division. He joined state government in 1989 after graduating from West Virginia University, according to a news release from the governor’s office.
“Harold Ward has been a superstar in the WVDEP for a long time and the work he’s done during my administration,” Justice said in a statement.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. Representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency say the capped of General Electric landfills are not harmful, yet the last public health study that was conducted in relation to them was in 2008. After receiving a presentation about environmental monitoring activities from the problematic landfills that abut Allendale Elementary School, the City Council s Public Health and Safety subcommittee requested that the state Department of Public Health provide an updated study on cancer cases in that area. The committee was shocked to find out that a study of this nature has not been conducted since 2008, while Hill 78 and Building 71 were capped and have not been in use for over 10 years. Since the GE Housatonic Public Health Assessment was released in 2008, there have no further evaluations of cancer incidents in the Allendale area.
State Department of Environmental Protection police, White Plains police and state troopers fished out the submerged vehicle Tuesday during a routine study of the reservoir near the town of Katonah, a DEP spokesman said.