A leading innovator in water purification technologies, Encinitas-based CycloPure, Inc., has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant in the amount of $725,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF). CycloPure, the developer of DEXSORB filtration products, will use the grant funds to adapt its DEXSORP-MP adsorbent …
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The Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board is providing free water quality testing for residents that get their drinking water from domestic wells. Previous testing suggests the likelihood of widespread groundwater contamination problems that warrants periodic testing of the estimated 44,000 domestic wells throughout the region. Of the 1,627 …
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Inspections by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May 2016 at the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant found that facility staff had not immediately notified the National Response Center of three separate releases of chlorine in 2013 and 2014, a violation of the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and …
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A partnership between the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and Project Water Education for Teachers (Project WET) is offering K-12 teachers two workshops on “Understanding Climate Change in California.” The workshops are sponsored by DWR’s Climate Change team and facilitated by Project Wet, a nonprofit water education organization. DWR sponsors …
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Historically used for mining copper, zinc, silver and gold, the Copper Bluff Mine, in Humboldt County, is being proposed for addition to the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL). The announcement of the possible addition of Copper Bluff Mine to the NPL was made by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …
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Water reliability for an unannexed portion of the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation’s Reservation took a major step forward earlier this week when the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California agreed to water deliveries to 227 acres of developed land on the tribe’s reservation …
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