More than seven years after Pennsylvania officials requested that the disposal of radium-laden fracking wastewater into surface waters be restricted, a new study finds that high levels of ...

POTTSTOWN >> The public has until Aug. 8 to comment on a plan to control stormwater for the next five years. The plan is required to obtain a permit from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental ...

Forensic geoscience is being used to determine the source of sediment in watercourses. Delivery of sediment to watercourses can have environmental and economic impacts. Elevated suspended sediment in ...

Robert S. Stelzer, J. Thad Scott and Lynn A. Bartsch AbstractThe interface between ground water and surface water in streams is a hotspot for N processing. However, the role of buried organic C in N ...

Researchers modeled the journey of microplastics released in wastewater treatment plant effluent into rivers of different sizes and flow speeds, focusing on the smallest microplastic fragments — less ...

Despite a 2011 Pennsylvania guideline curbing the discharge of wastewater from the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, industry to water treatment plants, high levels of radium are still settling in ...

Phosphate interacts with inorganic sediment particles through sorption reactions in streams. Collectively, this phosphorus (P) buffering mechanism can be an important determinant of soluble reactive P ...

JAMAICA — A stream restoration project is underway in the Ball Mountain Brook. Hunter Excavating of Londonderry is removing about 15,000 cubic yards of river rock and sandy sediment material from the ...