Norfolk water pollution control superintendent recognized at national conference
NORFOLK - Todd Boling, City of Norfolk Water Pollution Control Superintendent, recently received recognition at a national conference.
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) recognized Boling as an outstanding volunteer, a part of their new Volunteer Service Recognition Project, at the recent Water Environment Federation’s Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference in Chicago.
Foreign plankton species makes first appearance in Lake Erie
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A type of plankton found in many parts of the world has turned up in the Great Lakes.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says Cornell University researchers detected the creature in a water sample taken from Lake Erie last year.
The rotifer species is called Brachionus leydigii, a non-native invertebrate.
Report: 7 million gallons of sewage spilled into NY lake
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — A sewer pipe break caused by last week's heavy rain has spilled millions of gallons of raw sewage into a central New York lake.
The Post-Standard of Syracuse reports (http://bit.ly/2eUpoEC ) Onondaga County has told the state Department of Environmental Conservation that a 42-inch diameter pipe near Syracuse's Inner Harbor broke Friday during a period when it rained for nearly an entire day.