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Foodservice company draws MDEQ fine for wastewater

Associated Press — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:22:04 +0000

PEARL — A foodservice company is paying an $18,000 civil fine for dumping wastewater into Jackson’s sewer system for 11 years without a permit. Valley Services agreed in March to pay the fine to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. An order published by the department says the company’s Pearl facility has been discharging wastewater [...]

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More segments of beach closed due to water quality issues

MBJ Staff — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:34:21 +0000

MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has issued water contact advisories for five sampling stations. These segments of beach are not closed; however, there may be an increased risk of illness associated with swimming in these areas. The affected stations are: • Station 1 — [...]

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Water advisory issued on Coast bayou after fuel spill

MBJ Staff — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:22:05 +0000

MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has issued a temporary water contact advisory for Dutch Bayou in Moss Point. The advisory was issued due to a fuel spill from the Pilot Travel Center located at 6705 Highway 63. MDEQ Emergency Response and Underground Storage Tank staff and local emergency officials [...]

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Spokesman: Raw sewage has been pouring in river since weekend

Associated Press — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:26:10 +0000

MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Millions of gallons of raw sewage are pouring into the Mississippi River from a St. Louis wastewater treatment plant where two of three pumps have failed. Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District spokesman Lance LeComb says the pumps went out on Sunday night, and it’s unclear how quickly they may be fixed or [...]

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State becomes third to sue BP over 2010 oil spill

Associated Press — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 11:58:11 +0000

JACKSON — Mississippi has become the third state to sue BP PLC over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Attorney General Jim Hood announced the state had filed lawsuits in federal and state court. The move comes one day before the three-year statute of limitations expires for claims related to the April 20, 2010, [...]

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Boats still idled by oil spill on Mississippi; reopening uncertain

Associated Press — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:01:18 +0000

VICKSBURG — With more than 50 vessels idled on the water for a fourth day today, authorities said they still do not know when they will be able to reopen a 16-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that has been closed due to an oil spill. A plan to pump oil from a leaking barge [...]

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River remains closed as oil spill cleanup continues

Associated Press — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:43:58 +0000

VICKSBURG — Barges transporting commerce idled among the nearly four-dozen vessels stacked up today along a normally bustling stretch of the Mississippi River, denied transit as crews feverishly sought to clean up leaking oil spilled in a weekend barge accident. Workers have been skimming oily water around the clock near Vicksburg ever since a barge [...]

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Neighborhoods still being tested for pollutants from plant

Associated Press — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:43:26 +0000

HATTIESBURG — Officials have been conducting testing at and near the former Hercules plant to determine whether contaminants have spread into surrounding neighborhoods. Testing is being conducted by officials with the state Department of Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency and Ashland Inc., Hercules’ parent company at wells within a half-mile radius of the former [...]

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Investigators testing neighborhoods for pollutants

Associated Press — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:36:38 +0000

HATTIESBURG — State and federal agencies are testing neighborhoods around a former chemical plant in Hattiesburg for possible pollution. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Environmental Protection Agency and Ashland Inc., Hercules’ parent company, have drilled test wells within a half-mile of the plant, the Hattiesburg American reported. The wells are drilled in the path [...]

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Former mill owner charged after massive fish kill

Associated Press — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:50:40 +0000

PEARL RIVER — The Justice Department has filed two criminal misdemeanor charges against Temple-Inland, the former owner of a paper mill in Bogalusa, La., for violating federal environmental laws. The charges stem from a five-day spill of pollutants from the company’s paper plant into the Pearl River in August 2011. A bill of information filed [...]

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