flickr.com/photos/sebastianjosephBet you didn't know that water is fundamental for life and health. Well, it is. Bet you also didn't know that this is Drinking Water Week in Missouri. Well, it is. Don't believe me? Check out the news flash after the jump. It's Daily RFT's "Press Release of the Day."
The Associated Press is reporting today that the Missouri Department of Natural Resources withheld a May report showing unsafe levels of E. Coli bacteria in the Lake of the Ozarks.More than half of the 60 tests taken on May 26 showed E. Coli levels above the state standard, with at least two of those tests indicating levels of the bacteria at 19 times the standard. Officials with the state's DNR apparently withheld the report for fear it would hurt tourism and business at the lake. "We wanted to
http://www.flickoff.org/system/files/u8/methane.jpgSt. Louis has a meth problem. Methane, that is.The highly flammable greenhouse gas, most famous in the form of cow flatulence (hence the lovely picture above), is causing a scare for a handful of North St. Louis residents. The St. Louis Demolition Landfill, located just east of Hall Street adjacent to the Mississippi River, has "potentially explosive levels" of the gas seeping out of the ground.The Missouri Department of Natural Resources was
The report from the Environmental Protection Agency is hardly shocking. Yesterday the agency released test results indicating that as many as one-third of properties situated within
a mile of the company's lead smelter in Herculaneum contain lead
at levels exceeding 400 parts per million (ppm) -- the EPA's threshold for
removing and replacing such soils.Photo: Jennifer SilverbergDoe Run smelter in Herculaneum.The Doe Run smelter has long history of poisoning iits neighbors, so much so that th
