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Toxic waterways
- The Marietta Times
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2009-10-31 |
| The two rivers that converge at Marietta are among the 10 most polluted in the country, according to a new environmental report. | |
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| 2008-07-30 | |
| Lake Erie's public beaches failed so many bacterial tests last year that Ohio ranks second-worst among all states, according to a new report. | |
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Bacteria infiltrating lake
- The Lorain Morning Journal
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2008-07-30 |
| LORAIN -- Lakeview Beach and Century Beach are increasingly sites of unsafe, bacteria-infiltrated water, according to a public interest groups' annual beach water quality report of the United States. | |
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| 2008-07-29 | |
| COLUMBUS, OHIO – As summer temperatures soar and families flock to America’s coastal beaches, they often find that an unwelcome “intruder†has beaten them to the shore: an official beach advisory, warning people not to enter the water because of dirty water contaminated with dangerous bacteria. | |
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Ohio health officials test Lake Erie beaches for bacteria
- Akron Beacon Journal
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2008-05-24 |
| Ohio health officials plan to monitor bacteria levels in Lake Erie this summer, employing computer models to warn swimmers of high pollution levels. Environmentalists last summer ranked the region's beaches among the worst in the nation for water quality. | |
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Grendell seeks language fix with Great Lakes Compact
- The News-Herald
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2008-02-16 |
| State Sen. Tim Grendell has introduced legislation he says corrects problematic wording with the existing compact to protect the Great Lakes. | |
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| 2007-12-31 | |
| Fourteen months after completion of a $48 million addition to the city's wastewater-treatment system, Toledo's Bay View treatment plant no longer dumps raw sewage into the Maumee River. Although untreated sewage continues to flow through combined sewer outfalls located along the Maumee and Ottawa rivers during heavy rains each year, the raw sewage that once routinely overwhelmed the water treatment plant on North Summit Street is under control. | |
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County among top 25 in pollution violators 11 facilities put area 22nd on nation’s list
- Ashtabula Star Beacon
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2007-10-13 |
| Ashtabula County ranked among the top counties in the country for its number of entities that violated water discharge permits more than once during 2005. | |
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Dover Chemical: Firm not to blame for all violations
- New Philadelphia Times Reporter
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2007-10-12 |
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Ohio tops list for clean-water violations, Environment Ohio reports
- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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2007-10-12 |
| Ohio communities and industries violated federal clean water standards more often than in any other state, an environmental group contends. | |
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Dover firm in top water polluters
- Canton Repository
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2007-10-12 |
| COLUMBUS A Tuscarawas County company is one of the worst water polluters in the state and contributes to Ohio's rank as the worst state for water pollution violations, according to a report released on the 35th anniversary of the federal Clean Water Act. | |
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| 2007-10-12 | |
| Ohio was No. 1 in the United States in 2005 in excessive and illegal discharges from sewage plants and factories that polluted waterways, according to a new report. | |
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Report puts Ohio atop pollution list; Group looks at waterway discharges
- The Cincinnati Enquirer
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2007-10-12 |
| COLUMBUS - Ohio ranked first in the nation in the number of times its major factories and cities released an unauthorized amount of harmful chemicals and untreated sewage into waterways, according to a report released by an environmental group Thursday. | |
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Report: Ohio among nation's top water polluters
- Associated Press
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2007-10-11 |
| COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio ranked first in the nation in the number of times its major factories and cities released an unauthorized amount of harmful chemicals and untreated sewage into waterways, according to a report released by an environmental group Thursday. | |
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Ohio beaches' bacteria level worst in nation
- Cleveland Plain Dealer
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2007-08-11 |
| Even after three decades of clean-water efforts, they remain Northeast Ohio's unwholesome trinity - summer storms, sewage overflows and swimming in Lake Erie. | |
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11 Billion Gallons in 2005: State Officials Urged to Limit Sewage Spills into Erie Basin
- The Columbus Dispatch
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2007-05-24 |
| Environmentalists and legislators want the state to know the answer to a question few are willing to ask: "Where does poop go when a toilet flushes?" | |
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Ohio Waterways: Bill requires public notice for sewage discharges
- The Toledo Blade
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2007-05-24 |
| Municipal sewage systems like Toledo's would be forced to notify the state and the public whenever they discharge raw sewage into Ohio waters under a bill introduced yesterday in the Ohio House. | |
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Raw sewage dumped in lake: Imagine '3 billion toilets flushing'
- The Cleveland Plain Dealer
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2007-05-24 |
| More than 10 billion gallons of untreated raw sewage were dumped into Lake Erie from dozens of communities in 2005, according to a report an environmental group released Wednesday morning. | |
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