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1. EPA testing yards near former factory
   SPOKANE, Wash. —Crews are testing residential yards near W.R. Grace's former insulation factory in Spokane for asbestos fibers that can cause cancer.
   For 22 years, Vermiculite Northwest produced Zonolite, an asbestos-tainted attic insulation. Rail cars brought vermiculite ore from Libby, Mont., to the Spokane plant, where furnaces heated the ore until it puffed up into lightweight insulation.
   The EPA is 2000 and 2001 sampled soils from yards near the Grace plant and found only trace amounts of asbestos. That prompted the agency to give the area a clean bill of health.
   But asbestos testing has improved. The agency decided to retest the Spokane yards after it earlier this month declared a public health emergency in Libby.
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2. Soil Erosion Control after Wildfire
   The potential for severe soil erosion is a consequence of wildfire because as a fire burns it destroys plant material and the litter layer. Shrubs, forbs, grasses, trees, and the litter layer break up the intensity of severe rainstorms. Plant roots stabilize the soil, and stems and leaves slow the water to give it time to percolate into the soil profile. Fire can destroy this soil protection. There are several steps to take to reduce the amount of soil erosion. A landowner, using common household tools and materials, can accomplish most of these methods in the aftermath of a wildfire.
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3. Sued by the forest
   Should nature be able to take you to court?
   Last February, the town of Shapleigh, Maine, population 2,326, passed an unusual ordinance. Like nearby towns, Shapleigh sought to protect its aquifers from the Nestle Corporation, which draws heavily on the region for its Poland Spring bottled water. Some Maine towns had acquiesced, others had protested, and one was locked in a protracted legal battle.
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4. Pakistan
   Margallas in danger
   A PHOTOGRAPH published in Dawn of a once-flowing stream in the heart of Islamabad, now dry and filled with debris, testifies to the incalculable harm inflicted on our environment by the stone-quarrying and crushing activities in the surrounding Margalla Hills. Quarrying in the Margallas has not only caused natural streams to dry up as a consequence of deposits of stones but has also damaged numerous aqueducts, culverts and water tunnels causing water wastage and contamination. The activity is also denuding the Margallas of their green cover, besides accelerating soil erosion and destroying ....
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5. Training aimed at improving sediment control and runoff
   As part of ongoing efforts to prevent soil erosion and runoff, the Division of Environmental Quality hosted a free training-aimed at improving real-world application of erosion and sediment control practices-for CNMI contractors.
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6. Prevent erosion with vegetation
   When properly installed and maintained, vegetation can protect slopes by reducing erosion, strengthening soil and inhibiting landslides which increases general slope stability. The use of vegetation to manage erosion and protect slopes is relatively inexpensive, does not require heavy machinery on the slope, establishes wildlife habitat, and can improve the aesthetic quality of the property."
   DOE has prepared two comprehensive guides to assist property owners.
   Both are available online by simply "Googling" their titles:
   1. Slope Stabilization & Erosion Control Using Vegetation
   2. Vegetation Management: A Guide for Puget Sound Bluff Property Owners
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7. Minister asks officials to control erosion
   BHAGALPUR: Soil erosion due to rise in the water level of Kosi and Ganga rivers and their tributaries has started posing threat for the residents of villages in Naugachhia subdivision. PHED minister and Bhagalpur MLA Ashwini Kumar Choubey who visited the Naugachhia villages under threat from soil erosion on Sunday, asked the officials of the district to expedite works to control soil erosion.
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8. Superfund Acronyms
   Need to know what an acronym stands for? Click on a letter below to see a list of acronyms beginning with that letter. You can also search for the definition of an acronym by entering the acronym or a keyword into the search box below.
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9. Local company spreads seed to new Rockwood headquarters
   New Sunmark building includes rain runoff garden
   Sunmark Seeds International is a three-tiered enterprise that specializes in developing playing field turf and environmental/erosion abatement as well as its bedrock mission of supplying and processing all manner of planting seed native to the Northwest.
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10. Pierce County to begin innovative Puyallup River levee repair project
    Pierce County Public Works and Utilities is set to begin 30 days of construction on a Puyallup River levee stabilization project on July 27. The project will reinforce the levee for better flood protection using an innovative, fish-friendly shoreline stabilization technique.
    Sport fishing season on the Puyallup begins Aug. 16 and may overlap the construction project for up to two weeks. According to Pierce County officials, the project is timed to comply with environmental permit requirements aimed at protecting juvenile salmon as they migrate from the river to the ocean. The river flow is at its lowest level this time of year, and most juveniles, called smolts, have already migrated to salt water.
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11. El Dorado Hills, Naturally Occurring Asbestos
    Multimedia Exposure Assessment
    The National Contingency Plan (40 CFR 300. 415 (b)(2)), authorizes the U. S. EPA to consider emergency response actions at sites that pose an imminent threat to human health or the environment. U. S. EPA is continuing to evaluate whether asbestos in disturbed soils at the locations that are the subject of this PA/SI poses an imminent threat requiring mitigative measures.
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Here are a few more erosion articles that should help you find additional solutions to soil erosion control, regulations, technical papers and other global information issues;
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