Andrew Whitehurst

Robert Bowcock visited Louisiana and Mississippi on September 9-10th doing investigations into water pollution problems. Bowcock’s consulting business, Integrated Resource Management, deals with the safety and security of drinking water systems. His investigations have supported some of Erin Brockovich’s environmental defense work. On he was in St. John Parish, upriver from New Orleans. The Parish […]

An oilfield waste injection well has been operating for 18 years with minimal oversight in a suburban neighborhood in Laurel, Mississippi. Since 1996 this disposal well has allowed salt water, produced during drilling operations, combined with oil and drilling fluids to be injected into the earth 4020 feet down a “dry hole” oil well from

At the MDEQ Environmental Permit Board’s August 2014 meeting, we presented GRN’s comments which asked the Board to require fecal coliform bacteria monitoring for any discharges from the reservoir at the Kemper IGCC power plant. This reservoir holds Meridian’s treated municipal waste water at the end of a 41-mile pipeline. Kemper buys this water to

Okatibbee Lake is fed by streams receiving water from several permitted discharges from Kemper The Kemper IGCC (lignite gasification) power plant will use Meridian’s treated municipal sewage water to make steam for the turbines that produce electricity. That water becomes property of Mississippi Power when the company purchases it from Meridian and pumps it 41

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality hosted a meeting on March 19th to update interested people on the process of developing and setting nutrient criteria for Mississippi. At some point in the next 2 to 3 years, after many delays, the MDEQ will finally release state-wide standards for nitrogen and phosphorous pollution limits either in

A public meeting on the Groundworx LLC wastewater land application permit was held at the Hattiesburg train depot on the evening of Tuesday February 25th. Around 85 people attended to hear MDEQ staff describe the draft permit for a new sewage treatment system that features no discharge to streams or rivers. Thirty people made verbal

Effluent dumping into the Leaf River from one of Hattiesburg’s existing sewage treatment facilities. The City of Hattiesburg, Mississippi has signed a contract with Groundworx LLC to take over the city’s sewage treatment. The Hattiesburg sewage lagoons have been causing ongoing problems with odor and pollution, and while taking care of this problem is long