April 8th, 2008

[past headlines]
Sewer line break likely seeped into Lewis Creek
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
Testing at a Lewis Street site downstream from the Churchville Avenue break showed a sharp drop in the count of E. coli bacteria in the water almost ...

Food Safety Summit Comes to Washington
Farm Futures - Carol Stream,IL,USA
Recently there has been an increase in the number of food related illnesses, meat recalls and E. coli problems. USDA Undersecretary of Food Safety Dr. ...

Ottawa County beach opens after summer of E. coli issues
WZZM - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
Maplewood Lake off Cottonwood Drive in Ottawa County has been plagued with E. coli problems and was closed last year. The Georgetown Township board voted to ...

1760 boil-water advisories in effect across Canada
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Eight years after the Walkerton water E. coli disaster, easy access to safe tap water remains elusive for tens of thousands of Canadians in communities ...

Long-tainted Maplewood Lake Park beach reopens
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
By Rick Wilson GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP -- Township officials have decided to re-open a public beach at Maplewood Lake Park despite E. coli contamination that ...

Water in danger from livestock manure, DNR bull
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
The public was outraged after floodwaters in New Orleans were found to contain dangerously high levels of E. coli, yet we Iowans have become so desensitized ...