By Doug Barrett
May 13, 2021 | 7:48 AM
Northwood (ND) has secured a $7 million dollar Clean Water State Revolving Fund loan from the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality. The money will be used to improve portions of the sanitary sewer system and install a citywide storm sewer system.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides part of the SRF Programs funding, which offers below-market interest rate loans to political subdivisions for financing projects authorized under the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act.
Winnipeg Free Press By: Kerry Black
Adrian Wyld / The Canadian Press
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised in 2015 that long-term boil-water advisories on First Nations would be eliminated by March 2021; Indigenous Services Canada now says the earliest it could happen is 2023.
Indigenous Services Canada has announced it won’t end long-term advisories until 2023 at the earliest. In 2015, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to ending all long-term drinking water advisories by March 2021. When that deadline passed, the government recommitted to ending long-term advisories without a target date.
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This announcement comes as no surprise to many First Nations outraged by the lack of progress on ending drinking water advisories in their communities, and the growing divide and gap that exists between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities.
Recently, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) proposed to amend the Proposition 65 regulations related to short form warnings.
Harbor Beach council takes final touches to allow purchase of former plant
Rich Harp, For the Tribune
May 8, 2021
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The Harbor Beach City Council started putting the final touches onto an ordinance amendment that would allow property to be used for a variety of uses at the site of the former Detroit Edison plant.
According to Harbor Beach Mayor Gary Booms, the site is zoned industrial, which would not allow perspective purchasers to use it for any other purpose. The tract of land, which includes several acres of lake-frontage, will be rezoned. After the rezoning, it could be divided and used for residential, recreational, commercial, or other purposes.
ASHER ROSINGER
Imagine seeing a news report about lead contamination in drinking water in a community that looks like yours. It might make you think twice about whether to drink your tap water or serve it to your kids – especially if you also have experienced tap water problems in the past.
In a new study, my colleagues Anisha Patel, Francesca Weaks and I estimate that approximately 61.4 million people in the U.S. did not drink their tap water as of 2017-2018. Our research, which was released in preprint format on April 8, 2021, and has not yet been peer reviewed, found that this number has grown sharply in the past several years.