Mississippi Business Journal » pollutants http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Funding lacking for former Chemfax site cleanup http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/14/funding-lacking-for-former-chemfax-site-cleanup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=funding-lacking-for-former-chemfax-site-cleanup http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/14/funding-lacking-for-former-chemfax-site-cleanup/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:53:45 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=47262 GULFPORT — The cost to remove harmful chemicals from an old industrial site, Chemfax Inc. in Gulfport, is estimated at $2.5 million. That is what about 30 residents learned last night at a meeting with the Environmental Protection Agency. The Sun Herald reports the EPA conducted an emergency cleanup in 1999 that cost $1 million [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/14/funding-lacking-for-former-chemfax-site-cleanup/feed/ 0 MDEQ finally lifts Pearl River advisory following fish-kill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/14/mdeq-finally-lifts-pearl-river-advisory-following-fish-kill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mdeq-finally-lifts-pearl-river-advisory-following-fish-kill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/14/mdeq-finally-lifts-pearl-river-advisory-following-fish-kill/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:57:09 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=46024 SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has lifted an advisory for a section of the Pearl River in Pearl River County. The section extended from Highway 26 near Poplarville south to I-59 near Nicholson. MDEQ issued a water contact and a fish consumption advisory Aug. 14 due to a massive fish [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/14/mdeq-finally-lifts-pearl-river-advisory-following-fish-kill/feed/ 0 Reservoir discharge returns to normal post-fish kill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/08/22/reservoir-discharge-returns-to-normal-post-fish-kill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reservoir-discharge-returns-to-normal-post-fish-kill http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/08/22/reservoir-discharge-returns-to-normal-post-fish-kill/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:27:26 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=45055 SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District (PRV) has resumed normal operations of its fresh water discharge into the Pearl River from the Ross Barnett Reservoir. For a two-day period the PRV had increased that discharge in an effort to assist the people on the lower Pearl River as they recover from [...]

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