by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Aug 16, 2018 | Regulatory Permit Process
On August 15, Wild Virginia and the Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition (DPMC) released a scathing report summarizing 17,000 comments filed with the State Water Control Board in advance of its August 21 scheduled meeting. As Blue Virginia detailed here, the report...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jun 22, 2017 | Health & Safety, Pipelines
Four actions: Call & write your legislators. Sign the 2 petitions below. Recent decisions by the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to allow the Corps of Engineers to review the water body crossings as part of the Nationwide 12 permit process does not...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Mar 21, 2017 | Regulatory Permit Process
Urgent Action Needed!!!! March 31, 2017 is the deadline for requesting the Department of Environmental Quality [DEQ] to hold a public hearing on this issue. Please read the Kayanite Public Notice, posted in Farmville Herald here: Kyanite Public Notice 3.2017 KMC is...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
Synagro is the private company that distributes the sludge for the wastewater treatment plants which are owned by the state. In Virginia There was a lawsuit involving Synagro’s spreading 1 million gallons of hog waste material from Smithfield’s lagoons. The lawsuit...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Jul 4, 2016 | Bio-Solids, Sludge, Health & Safety
US EPA’s 503 sludge rule (1993) allows treated sewage sludges, aka biosolids, to be land-applied to farms, forests, parks, school playgrounds, home gardens and other private and public lands. According to a recent EPA survey, biosolids contain a wide range of...
