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According to the Woodland Park Herald News, a South Kearny, New Jersey chemical facility has failed to reduce the risk of a catastrophic accident or terrorist attack on the plant, and has grossly underestimated to the government the “worst case scenario” in such
an event, environmental activist organization Greenpeace said. (See item 5 )
Central Indiana residents fled flooded neighborhoods Tuesday, including in Avon west of
Indianapolis after two days of strong thunderstorms caused a retention lake to overflow an earthen dam threatening 32 homes and 16 trailers, the Associated Press reports. Residents in other parts of Indiana and Midwestern states had to deal with flooding and tornadoes
brought on by several days of storms. (See item 51 )
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June 22, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – (Pennsylvania) Two workers injured at Marcellus
Shale gas well. Two workers were injured on a recently completed Marcellus Shale gas
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well outside Gaines, Pennsylvania in Tioga County, when they were hit by highpressure, natural gas accidentally released when a pipeline coupling burst. The accident occurred June 18 and the injured workers were flown to Guthrie Medical Center where they remained hospitalized in stable condition June 20, according to a spokeswoman for Ultra Resources Inc., the Houston-based gas company that owns the well. The accident occurred as the Marcellus Shale drilling industry is under scrutiny due to recent accidents.
Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10173/1067294-53.stm#ixzz0rgeKWmum
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June 22, Associated Press – (Wisconsin) Gov. declares tornado emergency in SE
Wisconsin. Waukesha County, Wisconsin residents dug out Tuesday after two tornadoes ripped through the area. The tornadoes were among a series that raked across
Wisconsin Monday night, destroying homes and downing trees and power lines as thunderstorms moved through. The governor declared a state of emergency in
Waukesha County Tuesday. Close to 50,000 people lost power. We Energies said about
4,800 customers were still without power by early evening Tuesday. The utility hoped to restore power to most of them by midnight, but a We Energies spokesman cautioned customers in heavily damaged areas such as Eagle and Muskego may have to wait until late Wednesday. “We’re having to build entire power lines just from scratch,” he said.
“The damage was that severe.”
Source: http://wcco.com/wireapnewswi/Governor.declares.state.2.1767026.html
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June 22, Mobile Press-Register – (Louisiana) In case of hurricane, 3 to 7 days needed to evacuate Deepwater Horizon site. Operations at the Deepwater Horizon site would need “three to seven days” of lead time to unhook the riser pipe and evacuate to the mainland in the case of an approaching hurricane. The U.S. Coast
Guard’s top Admiral gave that estimate June 22 during an early afternoon news conference in response to a question about the possibility of a hurricane. A “tropical wave” in the eastern Caribbean created online chatter Monday that it could strengthen into a hurricane and move into the Gulf of Mexico. “If we got notice that a hurricane is coming, three to seven days in advance to demobolize and respond” would be needed, the Admiral said. The prospect of a hurricane has frightning possibilities for Gulf Coast residents, considering that a major storm would likely halt all work to cap the gushing oil well, as well cleanup efforts near the shore.
Source: http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/in_case_of_hurricane_3_to_7_da.html
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June 23, Palm Springs Desert Sun – (California) I-10 east of valley reopened after
Tuesday big rig crash. All eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 east of the Coachella
Valley in California were reopened by 4:30 a.m. June 23 after a big rig crash closed lanes June 22, the California Highway Patrol said. The big rig overturned onto its side around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, trapping the driver and spilling pesticide onto eastbound
Interstate 10, about 8 miles west of Desert Center Rice Road, Cal Fire reported. Crews
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pulled the driver from the vehicle and transported the person to a local hospital in critical condition. A hazardous materials team and county health officials were also called to the scene because 50 to 60 pallets of pesticide spilled onto the freeway. The crash had closed all eastbound lanes of Interstate 10 Tuesday, and the California
Highway Patrol diverted traffic around the crash during the closure.
Source: http://www.mydesert.com/article/20100623/NEWS0804/100623001/I-10-eastof-valley-reopened-after-Tuesday-big-rig-crash
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June 23, Woodland Park Herald News – (New Jersey) New Jersey chemical plant needs better protection, Greenpeace says. A South Kearny, New Jersey, chemical facility has failed to reduce the risk of a catastrophic accident or terrorist attack on the plant, and has grossly underestimated to the government what the “worst case scenario” would be in such an event, environmental activist organization Greenpeace said.
Greenpeace sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and to the company, Kuehne Chemical Co., complaining about lax security after conducting its own “citizen’s inspection” of the facility, which is bordered by the Hackensack River and extends under the Pulaski Skyway. Greenpeace was able to move freely around the perimeter of the plant in daylight without interruption or contact with any plant security or other security personnel.” Greenpeace was able to take pictures of the plant from
Greenpeace boats on the Hackensack, from above the plant on the Pulaski Skyway, and in front of the plant’s main gate. In a “worst case” disaster scenario that it was required to report to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, Greenpeace estimated that the catastrophic release of one 90-ton rail car of chlorine gas would put 12 million people at risk within a 14-mile radius of the plant in the New York-New Jersey region.
The Greenpeace photos indicated the presence of more than one rail car labeled with chlorine, and the company has reported on-site storage of 2 million pounds of chlorine gas. The president and chief executive officer of Kuehne, was unavailable to comment.
The chemical company was cited in 2008 for 31 safety violations and fined nearly
$50,000 by the federal government for mishandling chlorine.
Source: http://www.northjersey.com/news/environment/96952004_Chemical_plantrisk_assess mentchallenged.html
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June 22, Denver Post – (Colorado) Crash on C-470 in Jeffco cleaned up, traffic flow back to normal. An afternoon traffic accident on a busy stretch of highway involving a truck hauling pesticides tied up traffic June 22 in Jefferson County, Colorado, but closed lanes have been reopened. The accident happened at about 1 p.m. on or near the westbound C-470 ramp to eastbound I-70, according to the Colorado State Patrol. The crash involved a pickup truck and a commercial truck hauling pesticides. One driver was injured in the crash. Details on the injuries were not available. He was taken to St.
Anthony Central Hospital, the state patrol said. Hazardous materials teams are at the scene mopping up. The pesticide was diluted, according to the state patrol, and it’s not a public health threat at the site.
Source: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_15351163
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June 23, Brattleboro Reformer – (Vermont) VY: New cooling pipe crack ‘not an issue’. A spokesman for a group opposed to the relicensing of Vermont Yankee revealed a crack has been discovered in a cooling-water pipe in the Vernon, Vermont nuclear power plant’s east cooling tower. The spokesman, who works with the New
England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution, asked representatives from the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) Tuesday night why neither Entergy, which owns and operates the plant, nor the NRC had told anyone about an 18-inch crack in the header pipe that delivers water from the reactor-cooling system to the fan cells of the tower.
The NRC was in Brattleboro to discuss Yankee’s performance for 2009, the NRC’s
Groundwater Task Force review and the results of an NRC demand for information from Entergy. The director of communications for Yankee said two “through-wall” cracks were discovered in the header pipe during a routine inspection of the cooling towers June 17. The cracks measured 12 to 15 inches in length, he said, and were leaking about 10 gallons of water per minute. The header pipe moves 90,000 gallons of water per minute from the power plant to the cooling-fan cells. “There are no structural concerns whatsoever to the cooling tower,” said the Vermont Yankee spokesman. “We do not consider this an issue at all.”
Source: http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_15354701
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June 22, World Nuclear News – (Ohio) Reactor head replacement brought forward. The reactor vessel head at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant in Carroll
Township, Ohio will be replaced in 2011 and not 2014 as previously planned,
FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company (Fenoc) has announced. The 908 MWe pressurized water reactor is preparing for a restart following repairs to 24 control-rod, drive-mechanism nozzles in which signs of cracking caused by stress corrosion were found during a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage. After carrying out repair work, Fenoc had been planning to take operational steps to avoid more cracking until the scheduled vessel-head replacement in 2014. This would have included using a shorter operating cycle, a lowered core temperatures, and the extensive testing of the nozzles during a planned outage in 2012. However, local media contends the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC)was not happy with Fenoc’s proposed interval between inspections, and now it appears that Fenoc has decided that the best solution is to bring forward the vessel-head replacement rather than undergo the more frequent inspections that the NRC would likely have demanded.
Source: http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-
US_reactor_vessel_head_replacement_brought_forward-2206107-.html
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June 21, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission – (Kansas) NRC conducting special inspection at Wolf Creek nuclear plant. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) has begun a special inspection at the Wolf Creek Generating Station in
Burlington, Kansas to review the circumstances surrounding complications with a plant cooling-system pump. The incident did not affect public safety and the plant is currently operating at full power. Wolf Creek is operated by the Wolf Creek Nuclear
Operating Corp. Two NRC inspectors, who began their work June 21, will evaluate the
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events and circumstances surrounding complications that first arose during testing of a component-cooling, water-system pump May 24. During subsequent testing June 1, operators discovered pockets of nitrogen gas trapped in the system. The system is used to cool some safety-related and non-safety-related components in the plant, and acts to transfer heat from one cooling system to another to maintain safe operations. “The purpose of this special inspection is to better understand the presence of nitrogen pockets and the implications of the condition on system operability,” said the Region
IV Administrator. NRC inspectors will develop a chronology of the event, review the licensee’s root cause determination, and evaluate the licensee’s maintenance and testing program and the effectiveness of operators’ response to the event. The inspection report documenting their findings will be publicly available within 45 days of the end of the inspection.
Source: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/news/2010/10-025.iv.html
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June 22, Houston Chronicle – (Texas) OSHA cites shipbuilder in Channelview. The
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Sneed Shipbuilding in
Channelview, Texas for allegedly exposing employees to electrical and other safety hazards. The federal agency has proposed penalties totaling $59,300. “Welders were using damaged welding leads, and the company failed to repair damaged electrical junction boxes,” said the director of OSHA’s Houston North area office. “Electrical hazards like these can cause electrocution.” A company official declined comment.
Among the citations, OSHA issued 19 serious ones, including failing to provide employees with fall protection, and to provide: guards on grinders; covers over open manholes; and fire extinguishers in places where flammable paint and solvents are used.
Source: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7074751.html
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June 23, Spacewar.com
– (National) Trident II D5 missile scores record 134 test flights in a row. The U.S. Navy conducted successful test flights June 8 and 9 of four
Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles (FBMs) built by Lockheed Martin. The Navy launched the unarmed missiles from the submerged submarine USS Maryland (SSBN
738) in the Atlantic Ocean. This test marked the 131st, 132nd, 133rd and 134th consecutive successful test flights of the Trident II D5 missile since 1989. The Navy launched the missiles as part of a Follow-on Commander’s Evaluation Test. The Navy conducts a continuing series of operational-system evaluation tests to assure the safety, reliability, readiness and performance of the Trident II D5 Strategic Weapon System, as required by the Department of Defense’s National Command Authority. First deployed in 1990, the D5 missile is currently aboard OHIO-class submarines and British
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VANGUARD-class submarines. The three-stage, solid-propellant, inertial-guided ballistic missile can travel a nominal range of 4,000 nautical miles, and carries multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles.
Source: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Trident_II_D5_Missile_Scores_Record_134_Test_F lights_In_A_Row_999.html
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June 23, Naval Open Source INTelligence – (National) Northrop Grumman’s APG-
81 radar sensor performs flawlessly on first mission systems flight of Lockheed
Martin F-35 aircraft. Northrop Grumman Corporation’s new APG-81 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar met and exceeded its performance objectives successfully tracking long-range targets as part of the first mission systems test flights of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II BF-4 aircraft. “During the F-35 flight, the Northrop Grumman APG-81 radar met and exceeded performance expectations, tracking long-range targets at all aspect angles with excellent stability.
We look forward to working with Lockheed Martin in demonstrating the APG-81’s high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and other advanced capabilities on subsequent test flights,” said the vice president of combat avionics at Northrop
Grumman’s Electronic Systems sector.
Source: http://nosint.blogspot.com/2010/06/northrop-grummans-apg-81-radarsensor.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blog spot/fqzx+(Naval+Open+Source+INTelligence)
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June 22, KIRO 7 Seattle – (Washington) Scam ‘Bank’ calls resurface in Thurston
County. Police in Thurston County, Washington said they are again receiving reports about automated “bank” calls on cell phones after a rash of similar calls subsided several months ago. The sheriff’s department said bank cardholders are receiving prerecorded messages on their cell phones stating the call is from the cardholder’s bank.
Police said currently, the messages say they are from Evergreen Direct Credit Union and Our Community Credit Union and state that “their debit card has been deactivated due to a billing error.” The message then prompts cardholders to enter their 16-digit, debit-card number and PIN. After the information is entered, the message says the account has been activated. As a result, the cardholder’s account is accessed through
ATM activity, by the callers who are based in Spain. The sheriff’s department said banks do not call and ask customers account information, and even if a local phone number appears on caller ID, the call could originate anywhere in the world.
Source: http://www.kirotv.com/news/23992088/detail.html
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June 23, Denver Post – (Colorado) Witness says train sparked fire near Royal
Gorge. The co-owner of Royal Gorge Rafting and Royal Gorge Vacation Rentals said
June 22 that the Parkdale Canyon Fire near Canon City, Colorado erupted when sparks from the Royal Gorge Route train spewed into a nearby brush and ignited the blaze.
“The train had just passed the north entrance of the Royal Gorge on the east side,” said the rafting company’s co-owner. “There were sparks coming from somewhere in the train.” The man said that as he and rafters watched, the sparks ignited bushes every 500 to 1,000 yards over a three-mile stretch next to the train tracks. He said the sparks came from the Royal Gorge Route train that left Canon City at 12:30 p.m. June 21. The
Royal Gorge Route had “no comment” on the fires June 22. The man said that on June
22 alone he expected to lose $8,000 worth of business because of the ban on rafting. He added that this is not the first time trains going through the gorge have sparked fires. A federal Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman said that no official determination of the cause has been made, and that the 700-acre fire has been 15 percent contained.
Source: http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_15349655?source=commented-
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June 23, WVIR 9 Charlottesville – (Virginia) Zion Crossroads truck stop evacuated. An unusual substance brought business to a standstill at a Louisa County,
Virginia truck stop the night of June 22. Hazmat crews responded around 6 p.m. to the scene of a spill at the CITGO Truck Stop just off Interstate 64 in Zion Crossroads. A lieutenant with Louisa County Fire and EMS says a truck driver was returning to his cab after fueling up and found the leak. The unidentified corrosive managed to seep out of a metal barrel and eat through the bed of the truck. The parking lot was evacuated and drivers stranded. The lot serves as a rest stop and scale station for long distance drivers, but it was roped off starting at 6 p.m. “Anytime we have a tractor trailer that’s placard, dangerous, or flammable, we’ve got to take out precautions to clear out the area,” explained a fire department spokesman. “Just because we don’t know how much cargo is in that truck or what he’s hauling.” Haz-mat crews were called in from
Charlottesville to try and figure out exactly what they found. The truck driver says he was hauling a bio-degradable material that’s often used by oil companies. The spill has been cleaned up and crews have sealed the leaking drum inside another drum.
Source: http://www.nbc29.com/Global/story.asp?S=12692154
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June 22, WUSA 9 Washington – (District of Columbia) NTSB: Metro hasn’t gone far enough to fix safety culture. One year after the train crash tragedy that killed nine people and injured 80 on the Red Line, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority (Metro) has not gone far enough to fix serious problems with its “safety culture,” according to the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board
(NTSB). “They haven’t yet completed the action that’s needed,” the NTSB spokesman said on the anniversary of the collision. The NTSB has issued nine safety recommendations to Metro in the wake of the tragedy, but the transit system has failed to fully implement any of them. Four employees have died in incidents since the Red
Line accident. “Unfortunately what we’ve seen since the June 2009 accident is three more events on WMATA property,” the spokesman said. “The circumstances are all different. But nonetheless, it gives us a window into Metro’s operations and really some concerns we still have about Metro’s safety culture.” Hearings in February
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exposed glaring safety problems. Meanwhile, 25 percent of Metro’s aging railcars have been deemed not crashworthy by the NTSB, but they are still at least 2 years away from being replaced. Metro continues to run all trains in manual mode, a new safety executive has been brought on board, and Congress has appropriated $1.5 billion to address safety and operations concerns.
Source: http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=102807&catid=187
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June 21, WBBH 2 Fort Meyers – (Florida) Gateway Blvd reopens after suspicious package report. Lee County, Florida deputies have reopened Gateway Boulevard, which was shut down because of a suspicious package. Gateway was closed between
Towne Lake Drive and Commerce Lakes Drive for over two hours. The road reopened just before 3 p.m. The suspicious package was delivered to the local FBI office on
Commerce Lakes Drive. The office was evacuated around 12:45 p.m. The Southwest
Florida Regional Bomb Squad responded and detonated the package.
Source: http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=12683632
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June 23, Imperial Valley News – (California) South Gate Meat Co. recalls ground beef products due to possible E. coli contamination. South Gate Meat Co. of South
Gate, California is recalling approximately 35,000 pounds of ground-beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food
Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced June 23. The products subject to recall include boxes labeled “South Gate Meat Co.” of varying sizes, including: 20-, 30- and
40-pound bulk packages marked “Ground Beef”; 30-, 40-, and 50-pound bulk packages marked “Coarse Ground Beef”; and 10- and 20-pound packages marked “Ground Beef
Patties.” Each package bears establishment number “EST. 6217” inside the USDA mark of inspection. These products were produced between the dates of June 7, 2010, through June 21, 2010, and were shipped to restaurants in the Los Angeles and Orange
County, California, area.
Source: http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7
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June 22, NBC 4 New York – (Connecticut; New Jersey; New York) New York company issues ground beef recall over E.coli concerns. A Long Island food company has recalled approximately 3,700 pounds of ground beef that may be contaminated with E.coli, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said June 22.
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The products subject to recall include boxes labeled “W.B. Stockyard, Keep
Refrigerated” in a variety of sizes, including: 24, 8-ounce burgers in 12-pound boxes marked “Burger Fresh, WB Home Style”; 32, 6-ounce burgers in 12-pound boxes marked “Burger Fresh”; 48, 4-ounce burgers in 12-pound boxes marked “Burger
Fresh”; 10-pound boxes marked “Beef Ground/Extra Lean”; and 10- and 20-boxes marked “Beef Ground 80/20”. According to the USDA recalll, each package bears establishment number “EST. 20889” inside the USDA mark of inspection as well the
Julian dates of “10164” and “10166.” These ground beef products were produced June
11, 2010, and June 15, 2010, and were shipped to food-service institutions in
Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
Source: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/New-York-Company-Issues-
Ground-Beef-Recall-96917119.html
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June 22, Mesothelioma Resource Center – (Indiana) Ongoing blaze sparks asbestos concerns, EPA tests. Officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are continually testing the air near an ongoing fire at an Indiana meat-packing plant to address concerns that asbestos is among the materials going up in smoke. On June 22, the Emge Meat Packing Plant in Ft. Branch, caught fire, and the blaze has roared for four days. Firefighters believe the fire could continue into June 23, as they have been unable to extinguish flames that are concealed between brick and concrete walls. “Fire departments don’t have any equipment to be able to get to the fire,” said the Ft. Branch
Union Township Fire Department chief. When thick, black smoke began emerging from the plant, Ft. Branch officials and residents began to worry that asbestos particles may have been released into the air. Subsequently, Gibson County declared a state of emergency, allowing federal agencies such as the EPA and Homeland Security to intervene. So far, no hazardous materials have been identified in the smoke. The concern over asbestos is that the material has been linked to serious diseases such as lung cancer and mesothelioma.
Source: http://www.mesorc.com/mesothelioma-news/Ongoing-blaze-sparks-asbestosconcerns-EPA-tests/
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June 22, WNDU 16 South Bend – (Indiana) Gas leak in Wyatt evacuates entire town. A gas leak at an old meat locker in Wyatt, Indiana evacuated the entire town of
300 people the night of June 22. Madison Township fire crews in St. Joseph County said a gas leak was discovered in the old Wyatt meat locker on State Road 331 just after 9 p.m. Part of the building is used for apartments, but the leak was found in the unoccupied section. Crews found the leak and shut it off quickly, but residents of the town were still evacuated. For about four hours, people were asked to stay at the fire station outside of Wyatt before returning home. There is no word on what caused the leak, but fire officials do say it is possible that the gas had been leaking for a couple days.
Source: http://www.wndu.com/localnews/headlines/96944529.html
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June 23, Miami Herald – (Florida) High levels of bacteria detected in Biscayne Bay waters. The millions of gallons of sewage that streamed into Biscayne Bay in Florida last weekend have raised bacteria levels to about three times more than the acceptable state standard. “There are elevated levels of fecal matter and all types of matters related to sewage spills in the bay,’’ said a spokesman for the Miami Department of
Environmental Resources Management. When a sewage pipe ruptured near Northwest
18th Avenue and 157th Street June 18, it took 12 hours for the Miami-Dade Water and
Sewer Department to fix it. By then, more than 20 million gallons of untreated waste had spewed into the bay, polluting the water with an untold amount of bacteria.
Officials issued an advisory June 19, warning people to avoid contact with the waters near Biscayne Canal, from Oleta River State Park south to the Julia Tuttle Causeway, including Bal Harbour and Haulover beaches. The advisory for the beaches and Oleta
River has been lifted, but the areas near the Biscayne Canal and Biscayne Bay from the
Broad to the Kennedy causeways are still in question while tests are under way. Testing so far shows fecal coliform levels to be three times that of the acceptable state standard.
The bacteria is known to reduce oxygen levels in aquatic environments, but it affects humans more than marine life. As for the environment, the executive director of the
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper program said she was not immediately sure what effects the bacteria was going to have on aquatic life.
Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/23/1695139/high-levels-of-bacteriadetected.html#ixzz0rgXwWQg4
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June 22, Water Technology Online – (International) Researcher develops catalyst for nitrite/nitrate removal. A researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands has developed a catalyst that can efficiently remove the contaminants nitrite and nitrate from drinking water, according to a press release. The catalyst converts nitrite and nitrate, in combination with hydrogen, into nitrogen, the release stated. The researcher constructed the catalysts using extremely fine threads of carbon to which he attached palladium and platinum nanoparticles. In combination with hydrogen, nitrite and nitrate are converted into nitrogen on the surfaces of the nanoparticles.
Source: http://watertechonline.com/news.asp?N_ID=74348
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June 21, KWGN 2 Denver – (Colorado) Ducks turning up dead in Denver’s ‘Duck
Lake’. Dead ducks found in a City Park lake in a Denver neighborhood are -once again- prompting a lot of questions. A spokeswoman for Denver’s Parks and
Recreation Department, admits the dying ducks are an ongoing problem. She said the ducks are showing signs of the disease “Avian Botulism,” caused by a high concentration of birds, and bird feces, in the area. “When you have that many birds in one spot, the water is not able to support them, so it becomes contaminated,” he said.
But the city’s explanation sounds fishy to some environmentalists. “It’s more than just feces,” one environmentalist said. “It’s solvents, cancer-causing chemicals, and degreasers.” According to public records, the City and County of Denver filled the park’s lakes with potable water until 2004. That is when the environmentalist said the city switched to non potable, partially-treated sewage water. And that is when the ducks started dying. She said some of the “sewage water” is pumped in from the former
Lowry Landfill, which is an environmental superfund site. Still, city officials said it is
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not the sewage, but instead bird feces that’s making the water “foul.” Parks and recreation said tests on the dead birds will reveal the truth. When dozens of dead ducks were discovered in City Park in 2007, the Division of Wildlife and Colorado Health
Department also conducted tests to determine the cause of death. The environmentalist said the results of those tests have never been made public.
Source: http://www.kwgn.com/news/kdvr-city-park-dead-ducks-txt,0,6887214.story
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June 22, Bangor Daily News – (Maine) Evacuation of clinic due to natural gas odor. The Summer Street Clinic, a small walk-in health clinic in Bangor, Maine, was evacuated briefly June 21, after some employees smelled an odor similar to that of natural gas and complained of headaches and nausea. It was the second incident at the clinic in less than two weeks. No one was seriously sickened in either case. The evacuations lasted less than an hour, no clients complained of symptoms and no one became seriously ill in either case. Clinic hours have not been changed due to the incidents, but the space will undergo further air-quality testing.
Source: http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/146681.html
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June 22, Post Newsweek – (Florida) Bomb threat called in to doctor’s office. A building in North Miami Beach, Florida was evacuated June 22 after someone called in a bomb threat to a doctor’s office. North Miami Beach police said someone called a doctor’s office and said, “There is a bomb in the building.” Police evacuated the building. Investigators searched the doctor’s office and nearby businesses and found nothing dangerous.
Source: http://www.justnews.com/news/23990199/detail.html
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June 23, Oregon Statesman Journal – (Oregon) National Guard alerts members that personal information is at risk. The Oregon National Guard took on a new mission
Tuesday, identifying and notifying soldiers whose personal information may be at risk after a laptop was stolen from a Guard member’s vehicle in the Portland area. “It could potentially affect a lot [of people],” said a spokesman for the Oregon National Guard.
“I don’t have enough information to say just how many.” The theft was reported
Monday to the Portland Police Bureau. The National Guard released information about the security breach late Tuesday. “Although this laptop is password-protected, with potential exposure of individual personal information, we are doing everything possible to notify individuals about the theft,” the spokesman said. The laptop, which the Guard member was using to conduct work from home, may have contained the sensitive personal information of service members, including Social Security numbers, the spokesman said. The Oregon National Guard and the National Guard Bureau are
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contacting people whose personal information may have been compromised.
Source: http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100623/NEWS/6230424/1001#ixzz0rgdO
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June 23, North Andover Eagle-Tribune – (Massachusetts) Methuen IRS building evacuated. A suitcase containing a lawnmower engine with wires wrapped around it with duct tape and placed on top of a bag of fertilizer was found inside a trash bin behind the Internal Revenue Service building on Milk Street in Methuen,
Massachusetts yesterday. Hundreds of employees of the IRS Examination Division were evacuated and the bomb squad blasted the package with a water cannon to safely remove it. A police spokesman said police also found newspapers dating to June 6 inside the suitcase. Authorities said it was not clear last night whether the package was an attempt at making a bomb. Its remains were taken to the state police laboratory in
Danvers for analysis.
Source: http://www.eagletribune.com/local/x383280123/Methuen-IRS-buildingevacuated
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June 22, Associated Press – (Oklahoma) Device found in Okla. parking lot not dangerous. Authorities said a potential explosive device found in the Bartlesville High
School parking lot in Bartlesville, Oklahoma did not pose a danger. An Oklahoma
Highway Patrol spokesman said Tuesday the device was determined to be a digital clock attached to a propane bottle. Some homes were evacuated and nearby streets were blocked off briefly. The Bartlesville police chief said a high school employee called authorities around 8:30 a.m. after discovering the package on the back of a truck.
A U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent brought a robot to photograph the device and examine it. The device was taken to Tulsa for analysis. Investigators are reviewing surveillance tapes from the high school showing activity in the parking lot, and are conducting interviews
Source: http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=348&NewsID
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June 23, Lacrosse Tribune – (Wisconsin; Minnesota) Official: Sirens aren’t saviors when storms hit. Parts of La Crosse, Wisconsin could have the same lack of sirens to warn of oncoming severe weather as reported in two Midwestern communities hit by tornadoes in the past week. Two of La Crosse’s nine tornado sirens — both early 1960s models — are not in working order, city officials said. It sets up a similar situation to
Rochester, Minnesota, and Waukesha County in southeastern Wisconsin, where sirens failed to sound as severe storms swept in. A West Avenue siren is permanently disabled, and workers are troubleshooting problems with one on Diagonal Road on the city’s south side, said the assistant public works director who oversees city sirens.
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While having new sirens would be ideal, the system is not intended to be the primary means of warning people in an emergency, officials said. “People have to realize that these sirens are available, but are not your best source,” said the administrator of emergency services for La Crosse County. “We need to have people tune into the media to keep informed.”
Source: http://lacrossetribune.com/news/state-and-regional/wi/article_76a51b34-7e80-
11df-b6be-001cc4c03286.html
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June 23, Delmarva Media Group – (Maryland) Officers sickened after PCP exposure. Several Ocean City, Maryland police personnel were hospitalized after being exposed to the hallucinogen PCP, which they unwittingly found in the purse of a woman detained on drug possession charges. One police officer and three public safety aides were taken to Atlantic General Hospital June 15 after experiencing symptoms of elevated blood pressure, dizziness, burning eyes and a racing heartbeat. Analysis by
Maryland State Police determined the substance recovered from the purse of a detained suspect was PCP, or phencyclidine, according to an Ocean City Police spokeswoman.
Source: http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100623/NEWS01/6230412/1002/Officerssickened-after-PCP-exposure
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June 22, Virgin Islands Daily News – (Virgin Islands) V.I.’s reboot of 911 system posts progress. The Virgin Islands’ 911 system has come a long way. In December
2005, a 32-year-old St. Thomas woman was assaulted at a bar in Red Hook, St.
Thomas. To report the crime, and to get help from police, she called 911 — six times.
She said the dispatcher hung up on her during three of those calls, forcing her to keep calling back and pleading for help. The woman described the operators as “awful” and
“horrifically rude.” That was before V.I. Territorial Emergency Management Agency
(VITEMA) took over. The overhaul of the territory’s 911 system officially was transferred from the V.I. Police Department to VITEMA in October, but the agency already had been working for months on the overhaul. The effort began in January
2007 when the government hired the disaster-preparedness consulting firm James Lee
Witt Associates to analyze the territory’s emergency preparedness. The report found the Virgin Islands’ 911 system — built in the 1980s — to be critically lacking. A complete overhaul was recommended. In July 2008 a Virgin Islands-native who was serving as FEMA’s District II mission support director, took over VITEMA. The official embarked on a $17.4-million overhaul of the 911 system — funded by V.I.
Public Finance Authority bond issuances that were supplemented by the government’s general fund and federal grants. The territory’s police, fire and emergency radios were transferred to one radio frequency, allowing the three agencies to communicate by radio in an emergency situation for the first time.
Source: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2010/06/23/4863723.htm
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June 22, Los Angeles Times – (New Jersey) Gulf oil spill: Leak at New Jersey test facility irks senator. As if the Gulf oil spill wasn’t enough, now there’s a leak in New
Jersey that’s drawing congressional ire. A Democratic Senator from New Jersey is angry that a test tank at an oil-spill research facility in his state isn’t operating because
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it sprung a leak. “The fact that this facility is inoperable during the nation’s largest oil spill is indicative of a complacency and lack of investment in oil-spill response technologies,” the Senator said in a letter sent Tuesday to the Interior Secretary. The
Interior Secretary mentioned the Oil and Hazardous Materials Simulated
Environmental Test Tank during testimony before the Senate Energy and Commerce
Committee earlier this month. But when the Senator’s staff called the Leonardo, New
Jersey, facility to set up a tour, they were told there was a “hole in the tank” and it wouldn’t be back in operation until sometime in July. “I was shocked,” the Senator wrote the Interior Secretary, “to learn that the facility the Interior Department uses to research how to respond to oil spills is out of commission.”
Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/06/gulf-oil-spill-new-jerseyspill-irks-legislator.html
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June 23, V3.co.uk
– (International) World Cup continues to drive spam. The World
Cup is continuing to play a major role in global spam loads, according to Symantec.
The company said in its monthly MessageLabs Intelligence report that throughout the month, the football tournament had been popular not only for pushing spam related to the event, but also for getting unrelated spam messages through filters. Researchers have for weeks been warning that the event would be a popular lure for scams and malware attacks as cybercriminals look to cash in on interest over the tournament.
According to Symantec, the World Cup is not only popular for scams, but is also useful for tempting users to open other types of spam as well. The company said that subject lines relating to the World Cup were amongst the most popular for pharmaceutical spam messages. Additionally, World Cup text was being used by spammers to avoid spam filters. The scammers do this by placing lines of text related to the tournaments within the body of a message to confuse signature-based filters that check for message content.
Source: http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2265279/world-cup-continues-drive-spam
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June 22, Federal Computer Week – (National) White House plans strategy for better cyber authentication. The U.S. President’s administration plans to release late this week a draft of a new national strategy for improving capabilities to identify and authenticate people, organizations and infrastructure in cyberspace, the White House’s top cyber official said June 22. The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in
Cyberspace document lays out goals and objectives to allow for laws, policies and programs to improve the trustworthiness of digital identities in cyberspace, said the
White House’s cyber coordinator. The coordinator said the document, now in its second version, would be released June 25 for public comment. Speaking during at the
Symantec Government Symposium held in Washington, the coordinator said that the strategy was called for by the President’s review of cyber policy that was completed
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last year. The strategy builds on work the government has done in identity management under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12. He also said it recognizes the need to educate users of computer systems. The strategy cannot exist in isolation and it’s going to take a commitment to security, he added.
Source: http://fcw.com/articles/2010/06/22/web-schmidt-cyber-identities-strategy.aspx
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June 22, Computerworld – (International) Mozilla patches 9 Firefox bugs, adds plugin crash protection. Mozilla June 22 patched nine vulnerabilities, six of them critical, in Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.5. But rather than highlighting the security fixes in Firefox
3.6.4, the company instead emphasized the addition of crash protection, a move meant to keep the browser alive when popular plug-ins drop dead. Updates to Firefox 3.6.4 and Firefox 3.5.10 fixed nine flaws for each version, although the total patch count came to 10 because two fixes affected only one of the pair. Six of the nine vulnerabilities for each browser were rated “critical,” Mozilla’s highest threat ranking, indicating that hackers could use them to compromise a system running Firefox, then plant other malware on the machine. Two were labeled “moderate,” the second-lowest rating, while one was tagged as “low.”
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178408/Mozilla_patches_9_Firefox_bugs_a dds_plug_in_crash_protection
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June 22, Computerworld – (International) Apple leaves iPad vulnerable after monster iPhone patch job. As part of the June 21 iOS 4 upgrade, Apple patched a record 65 vulnerabilities in the iPhone, more than half of them critical. Apple released iOS 4 for the iPhone 3G and 3GS, and the second- and third-generation iPod Touch.
However, the first-generation iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the much newer iPad, may be vulnerable to some or all of the 65 bugs. The new iOS 4 operating system, which launched June 21, can’t be installed on 2007’s iPhone and iPod Touch, and the upgrade is not slated to reach iPad owners until this fall. The bug count is a record for
Apple’s iPhone, surpassing the previous high mark of 46 vulnerabilities patched last summer with iPhone OS 3.0. Formerly known as iPhone OS 4, iOS 4 included patches for 35 bugs, or 54 percent of the total, that were tagged with the phrase “arbitrary code execution,” which is Apple’s way of saying the vulnerability is critical and could be used to hijack an iPhone or an iPod Touch. Unlike other software makers, such as
Microsoft, Apple does not rank flaws with a threat-scoring system. Most of the patched vulnerabilities were in WebKit, the open-source browser engine that powers Safari on
Apple’s mobile devices, as well as Safari for Mac OS X and Windows, and Google’s
Chrome browser.
Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178394/Apple_leaves_iPad_vulnerable_after
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June 21, Help Net Security – (International) The truth about social media identity theft. The use of social media can increase consumer vulnerability to identity theft because of the amount and type of personal information people share on these networks. However, consumers do little or nothing to protect themselves, according to
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a recent study by the Ponemon Institute. Although more than 80 percent of study respondents expressed concern about their security while using social media, more than half of these same individuals admitted they do not take any steps to actively protect themselves. This data clearly demonstrates that while people may acknowledge that security is important, many do nothing to protect their information online. Other key findings from the survey include the following: approximately 65 percent of users do not set high privacy or security settings in their social media sites; more than 90 percent of users do not review a given Web site’s privacy policy before engaging in use; spproximately 40 percent of all respondents share their physical home address through social media applications; and surprisingly, people who have been victims of identity theft are just as likely to be lax in securing their personal information online. Study results from identity-theft victims and non-victims are virtually identical.
Source: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=9445
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June 22, Santa Cruz Sentinel – (California) After fiber-optic sabotage, AT&T builds backup. More than a year after sabotaged fiber-optic cables in South San Jose,
California left the county without phone and Internet service, working credit card machines or cash-spitting ATMs, AT&T is building a backup “information highway” over the Santa Cruz Mountains to help prevent a similar outage. The new lines will not be used to enhance local AT&T Internet, television or phone service, he said.
Currently, AT&T’s main information cables to Santa Cruz County run from San Jose to
Salinas, around the Santa Cruz Mountains and back up the coast, he said. So when a chainsaw-equipped vandal opened a manhole early April 9, 2009, and sliced key fiberoptic lines, he left much of three counties without wireless technology and land-line telephone service until that evening. While the cut cables belonged to AT&T, many were leased to Verizon. As a result, both providers were out of commission. Meanwhile banks closed, coffee shop baristas scribbled credit card numbers to run later and newspaper readers cleaned out racks around town, unable to access the World Wide
Web. Law enforcement patrolled cities and the county in force because residents could not call in emergencies.
Source: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_15348017
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June 22, KVAL 13 Eugene – (Oregon) The secret of the ooze: Who did this? And why. Feynman Group employees are still wondering what suspicious substance was spread around their building on the morning of June 22, which closed the Eugene,
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Oregon computer-consulting and Web-hosting business for two hours. Investigators and Haz-Mat crews from the Eugene Police Department (EPD) and the Eugene Fire
Department collected samples of the noxious yellow liquid and turned them over to
Oregon State Police. An EPD spokeswoman did not know when results would be available. One employee was sent to the hospital after being exposed to the substance.
A witness noticed the liquid spilling onto the sidewalk from a newspaper delivery box propped near the Feynman Group entrance as he arrived for work. He spotted more yellow liquid spread near the front door and near the door to a computer storage room on the side of the building. Not knowing what he was dealing with, he smelled the liquid and poured the newspaper delivery box out into the parking lot. The liquid smelled like ammonia, then sulfur when it was poured out, he said. It started smoking once poured out. Other than a bad cough that developed after he inhaled the fumes, the man is doing fine. Whatever the substance was, Eugene Police believe it was spread on purpose.
Source: http://www.kval.com/news/local/96938549.html
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June 22, Houston Chronicle – (Texas) Fire damages 6 apartments at west Houston complex. Firefighters in Houston have brought under control a blaze that gutted several units June 22 at a west side apartment complex. Heavy smoke clouds were pouring out one of the buildings about 5:30 p.m. when firefighters arrived at the apartments.
Firefighters made a primary search through the apartments before heavy flames forced them to stage a defensive battle against the fire. The apartments were empty. There were no reports of any injuries from the fire that damaged six units in the complex. The investigation is continuing into the cause of the fire.
Source: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7074505.html
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June 22, Cincinnati.com
– (Ohio) Transformer fire causes evacuation at Sharonville
Kinder Care. On June 22 around 5:50 p.m. a power pole behind the Kinder Care center snapped sending the power transformer smashing to the ground in Sharonville,
Ohio. The impact blew open the transformer, spilling gallons of hot oil on the ground and igniting a small fire with thick black smoke. The fire burned for 30 minutes before a Duke Energy crew was able to shut off the power. The Sharonville Fire Department quickly extinguished the blaze and worked to keep the spilled oil away from a nearby drain. The fire was contained to a small play area and no other structures were involved. No injuries were reported.
Source: http://local.cincinnati.com/share/news/story.aspx?sid=167959&cid=100043
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June 23, CNN – (Arizona) Officials see progress in battling 12,000-acre Arizona wildfire. Firefighters battling a two-day old wildfire near Flagstaff, Arizona have made some progress, and it is hoped people who have been evacuated will be able to return to their homes June 23. The Arizona governor said she will be seeking grants through the
Federal Emergency Management Agency to help pay for firefighting efforts, which have involved some 800 firefighters from Washington state, California, Montana,
Colorado, Idaho, and other western states. The fire commander said the fire was 10 percent contained and noted that calm winds and cooler temperatures allowed firefighters to secure their firelines. He said officials will make an assessment June 23 on whether people can start returning home. Residents were evacuated from at least
756 properties, including two residential neighborhoods, an animal shelter, and the grounds of the Sunset Crater and Wupatki national monuments. The fire commander said it may take two weeks to contain the blaze. So far, no buildings have burned.
Source: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/06/22/arizona.wildfire/
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June 23, Associated Press – (Colorado) More crews expected on Colorado’s Royal
Gorge fire. Firefighters have contained about 15 percent of a 700-acre fire in southern
Colorado, thanks in part to milder-than-expected weather. A total of 275 people are expected June 23 at the fire 14 miles west of Canon City. The blaze has burned at least one home, damaged five others and forced the evacuation of homes and businesses, including rafting companies that guide trips on the Arkansas River through the Royal
Gorge. Multiple fire starts were reported in the area June 21, and the cause of the blaze remains under investigation. In the San Luis Valley, a 4,766-acre wildfire is burning in the Great Sand Dunes National Park. The fire that was started by lightning June 6 is not threatening any buildings.
Source: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/ap/more-crews-expected-on-colosroyal-gorge-fire-96975949.html
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June 23, Las Cruces Sun-News – (New Mexico) Firefighters battle another blaze in
Organs. A wildfire in the Organ Mountains southeast of the Talavera area of Santa Fe,
New Mexico peaked over a ridge early June 22, at one point coming within about a mile of the nearest home. But by the end of the day, only some smoke was visible at the foothills, after fire crews spent hours hauling water by helicopter to fight what has been named the Long Canyon Fire. Firefighting personnel estimated the fire was about 20 percent contained. They also reduced the estimated size of the burned acreage from
4,000 acres to 1,340 acres, saying the revision resulted from “more accurate mapping.”
No home evacuations have been recommended. Still, officials said the fire’s proximity to development was behind a decision to step up response to the fire by mobilizing a
Type 2 incident management team.
Source: http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_15356459
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June 23, KXLF 4 Butte – (Montana) Pine Beetles force measures in recreation areas. Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest officials in southwest Montana said they will be applying insecticides at recreation sites throughout the forest during the next few weeks. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) said the insecticide is needed because of the current mountain pine beetle epidemic that is destroying vast numbers of trees
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across the forest, including trees in recreation areas and campgrounds. “Campground users will notice packets stapled to trees. These 2”x2” packets are Verbenone and/or
MCH and are used to ward away bark beetles in areas that we cannot spray the
Carbaryl pesticides because of being to close to water,” said the USFS reforestation forester.
Source: http://www.kxlf.com/news/pine-beetles-force-measures-in-recreation-areas/
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June 23, Associated Press – (West Virginia) Part of West Virginia wildlife management area closed after bunker explosion. West Virginia officials have closed a section of the McClintic Wildlife Management Area in Mason County where gunpowder stored in an underground bunker exploded in May. The state Division of
Natural Resources (DNR) said June 22 that the fire marshal’s office ordered the closure because of the risk of fire or explosion. The DNR wildlife resources chief said the order applies to about 175 acres. The Mason County wildlife management area’s remaining
3,665 acres remain open to the public. During World War II, the U.S. Army built several concrete bunkers on the property to store munitions. The DNR now owns the bunkers and leases them for storage. On May 17, gunpowder stored in one bunker exploded. No one was injured and an investigation is continuing.
Source: http://www.whsv.com/westvirginiaap/headlines/96923804.html
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June 22, WPRI 12 Providence – (Rhode Island) Swimming closed at Lincoln Woods
Beach. The Rhode Island Department of Health is recommending the closure of one local beach for swimming, while another will be reopened. Health officials said swimming should be prohibited at Lincoln Woods State Park Beach after high bacteria levels were discovered in the water. Officials said swimming can now resume at
Oakland Beach in Warwick. High bacteria levels had closed the beach, but new readings show the bacteria level is now within the acceptable limits.
Source: http://www.wpri.com/dpp/news/local_news/swimming-closed-at-lincolnwoods-state-park-beach-
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June 22, Omaha World-Herald – (Nebraska) Corps breaches Platte levee. To reduce the potential for flooding along the Salt Creek and its tributaries, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tuesday opened a temporary levee downstream along the Platte River in
Nebraska. The controlled breach of the levee is not expected to have a measurable effect on downstream water levels on the Platte and Missouri Rivers, the Corps of
Engineers said. The temporary levee was built this past winter to protect against ice jam-related flooding on the Platte. It is located in the southern part of the Nebraska
Army National Guard Camp Ashland near Ashland, Nebraska.
Source: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100622/NEWS01/100629856
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June 22, WRTV 6 Indianapolis – (Indiana) Compromised dam given poor rating by state. A Hendricks County, Indiana, dam compromised by Tuesday’s heavy rains had
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been flagged for safety by the state in the past. The Indian Head Lake Dam in Avon partially gave way Tuesday morning, sending water rushing from the lake into White
Lick Creek, and forcing the evacuation of a nearby mobile home park. The Indiana
Department of Natural Resources (DNR) categorizes Indian Head as a significant hazard dam, meaning if it breaches, it can cause serious damage to surrounding communities. Such dams are inspected every three years. In 2007, the DNR gave the
Indian Head a rating of “conditionally poor,” records show. DNR officials said that after the inspection, the owner of the dam — the Indiana Head Lake Association — was told to hire a private engineer and follow the engineer’s recommendations. The association president said he did not know the dam’s rating. He said he sent DNR paperwork on the dam and was waiting for feedback. But a DNR representative said the department does not provide feedback on a private engineer’s recommendations. The owner is required to simply follow the suggestions. Tuesday afternoon, engineers decided to partially drain Indian Head Lake to prevent expected storms from causing more damage to the dam.
Source: http://www.theindychannel.com/news/23996451/detail.html
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June 22, Associated Press – (National) Storms pelt Midwest, cause flooding in
Indiana. Central Indiana residents fled flooded neighborhoods Tuesday, including in
Avon west of Indianapolis after two days of strong thunderstorms caused a retention lake to overflow an earthen dam threatening 32 homes and 16 trailers. Residents in other parts of Indiana and Midwestern states had to deal with flooding and tornadoes brought on by several days of storms. The storms that pelted the Midwest weakened as they moved east Tuesday, but the National Weather Service said another wave was moving into Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. In Edna Mills, about 10 miles east of Lafayette,
Ind., officials called for a voluntary evacuation as a small creek rushed over its banks, surrounding about three dozen homes and covering roads. School buses and boats were brought in to help residents who wanted to leave. Further south, water from a retention lake overflowed the Indian Head Lake Dam and forced crews to evacuate nearly 50 residences. Witnesses in central Illinois reported tornadoes near the Indiana border, while flash floods covered roads in Pana, Fulton and Vermilion County. Tornadoes were spotted near Hoopeston and Rossville, and the American Red Cross said 26 families were forced out of their apartments after strong winds blew the roofs off several buildings in Beardstown. The Indianapolis Department of Public Works was offering sandbags to residents.
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