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A collaboration between the U.S. Geological Service and West Virginia University has resulted in a better understanding of the chemicals that spilled into the Elk River in 2014, affecting the drinking water of 300,000 Charleston-area residents.
Scientists in the organizations examined river and tap samples at several locations impacted by the spill. The results, which were recently published in the journal Chemosphere, are the first to report concentrations for each of the two chemical forms of the primary spill component (4-methylcyclohexane methanol, or 4-MCHM) in water samples.
Kung Wang, Eberly Distinguished Professor in the C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry at West Virginia University, and doctoral student Haresh Thakellapalli used a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer to establish the concentrations of the two distinct chemical forms in the spill sample. Their measurements of the low concentrations of the chemicals were a key contribution to the study.
Among the U.S. Geological Survey findings, some of which informed other recently published studies:
Knowing how to identify the unique properties and odors of the chemicals, researchers say, will inform other studies examining other potential impacts of the spill.
"This spill represented a huge challenge for all of the entities who responded to it, as the behavior of these specific components in water environments was largely unknown before the spill," said Bill Foreman, a U.S. Geological Survey research chemist and lead author of the study. "Researchers had little information on how the spilled chemicals moved through water, their stability or toxicity, or even how to measure them, as published information was either limited or non-existent."
The method used by the Geological Survey and WVU scientists to identify the chemicals was able to determine both chemical forms of 4-MCHM to concentrations less than 0.5 part-per-billion. Measurement at these low concentrations is critical to understanding 4-MCHM behavior in the environment and in drinking water systems, and because Crude MCHM, part of the spill material, has a low odor threshold that people can smell at less than 1 ppb.
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More information: Foreman, W.T., Rose, D.L., Chambers, D.B., Crain, A.S., Murtagh, L.K., Thakellapalli, H., and Wang, K.K., 2014, "Determination of (4-Methylcyclohexyl) methanol isomers by heated purge-and-trap GC/MS in water samples from the 2014 Elk River, West Virginia, chemical spill:" Chemosphere, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2014.11.006.
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LOSING an incredible 100kg between them has enabled a Hervey Bay couple to realise their dream - they are expecting their first child.
Derek Smith lost 30kg and Telaine Feeney lost 70kg by sticking to a low-carbohydrate and high-fat diet, eating bacon, eggs and cream but shunning carbohydrate-loaded breads and sugar.
Their efforts to drop the kilos have had many fantastic benefits for the couple - but number one in their book was Telaine falling pregnant with their first child.
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The two had been trying for years before losing the weight when they started the diet in 2013, and had almost decided to try IVF until the weight loss helped them conceive their much-wanted child.
When asked if they were excited, Derek had only one word to say: "Absolutely."
"It's pretty phenomenal," he said.
Telaine has also achieved another important health benefit through her weight loss.
Her blood sugar level often registered at over 30.
BENTON COUNTY, Mo. -- Customers in a former sewer district are up-in-arms after they say their voting rights were violated and now they are being charged for services they do not want or need.
People living outside of the city of Warsaw in Benton County say they are being charged $80 per month to flush their toilets after years of mismanagement by the Benton County Sewer District #1.
After federal courts, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and Attorney General intervened, people say they are not given a choice when it comes to getting rid of their sewage.
Now, they hope to flush the past 20 years away and go back to what they can afford.
Inside the Benton County courthouse, residents of the Blue and White Branch communities near Lake of the Ozarks say their voices are not being heard.
Hubert, a retired Vietnam veteran, and his wife, Joyce, moved to the area full time ten years ago. For as long as they've lived there, there's been problems with Benton County Sewer District #1.
"With everything that has gone in with the district, with the management, the rate hikes, we can't afford them, the people can't afford them," says Harris.
Residents say the sewer district came about in the 90s after water officials said that septic tanks failing in the area were polluting the lake.
After years of service, voters elected to dissolve the district in 2013. Following the vote, the Attorney General ruled shutting down shop would not be that easy because someone has to pay the USDA back for loaning the district $1.6 million to clean up the lake.
"The board got a loan in 1996 without the voter approval of the people. The people never voted to in debt the district," says George Hall, a former customer and resident trying to intervene into the court case.
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Several springs protection advocacy groups have joined forces in the hopes they will accomplish more together than separately.
In December, representatives of nine groups, including four from North Central Florida, established the Florida Springs Council.
Together, they plan to advocate for comprehensive springs protection legislation during the upcoming legislative session in Tallahassee, and potentially mount legal challenges against groundwater pumping permits, water supply plans and minimum flows and levels that they feel harm or do not do enough to protect the states springs and the aquifer.
They also plan to launch an education campaign to distribute technical data on the springs and aquifer.
The idea is to bring all these groups together to speak with a unified voice on springs protection, to educate and advocate on springs issues said Bob Knight, with the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute, the Silver Springs Alliance and the newly formed coalitions executive committee.
Other member groups from this area include the Ichetucknee Alliance and Our Santa Fe River Inc. From other parts of the state, the Save the Manatee Club, Wakulla Springs Alliance, Kings Bay Springs Alliance, Friends of Warm Mineral Springs and Withlacoochee Aquatic Restoration Inc. were also organizing members.
The basic idea of this is to approach these issues more holistically, said Bob Palmer, with the Howard T. Odum Florida Springs Institute, the Ichetucknee Alliance and the newly formed coalition.
Knight said he expects the councils membership to continue to expand.
With committee meetings in Tallahassee underway in advance of the upcoming session, advocating for a springs bill will be an early priority for the group. In 2014, state Sen. David Simmons R-Altamonte Springs, introduced a bill that unanimously passed the Environmental Preservation and Conservation Committee chaired by state Sen. Charlie Dean R- Inverness. That bill then went through numerous amendments that removed or loosened some specific requirements and timelines for setting minimum, flows and levels and recovery plans for water bodies that were below historic flows as well as the basin management action plans for cleaning up impaired water bodies and watersheds.
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