"Keramida Environmental acquires Heritage unit" is the headline to this story today on the Indianapolis Star website: "Keramida Environmental has acquired the environmental engineering and consulting unit of Heritage Environmental Services. The sale was announced Thursday. The companies said seven employees will transfer from Heritage to Keramida in Indianapolis."
Storm water. The Terre Haute Tribune Star reports here today:
A few simple fixes to Vigo County's storm water control system could save millions of dollars in a few years when federally mandated standards take effect. "We are at a really important juncture in time," said Joe Rozza, with Gresham Smith and Partners, a consultant working with several community institutions to develop a plan to make sure the area doesn't have to face the huge expense of meeting water purification standards that will become standard in five years.Wetlands. The Gary Post Tribune reports today (following up on an earlier story):"You don't want to start treating storm water. You don't want to get to that point," said Mike Cline of Hannum, Wagle and Cline. The engineering company is working with the city, too, to make sure the city avoids huge expense in 2010.
Grouped under the name "Rule 13," the Indiana Department of Environmental Management mandates concerned parties throughout the state meet guidelines for watershed management as part of a state and federal push to improve overall water quality. The first part of the push, reducing the number of combined sewer overflows, already has been mapped out in a plan submitted by Terre Haute to IDEM in April 2002. That plan is estimated to cost between $40 million and $50 million.
The second part, treatment of storm water, is still in planning stages. The area's plan, drawn up for use by Terre Haute, Vigo County, the Honey Creek/Vigo Conservancy District, West Terre Haute, Seelyville, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Indiana State University and Ivy Tech State College, seeks to reduce the amount of pollutants carried to the waterways through land use, water use and rain.
If those two programs meet sufficient guidelines, the third plank, treating storm water, won't be necessary. If they don't, Cline said, the costs could dwarf the CSO plan. Rozza said the best way to avoid those costs is to concentrate on six areas that contribute to pollutants in storm water.
CROWN POINT — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has ordered crews to stop work in the vicinity of a protected wetland where soil was illegally dumped and roads may have been built without proper permits near a residential subdivision. Army Corps field representatives Wednesday found unauthorized work damaging wetlands between the Pine Hill and Stillwater subdivisions on the southeast side of Crown Point, according to Corps project manager and biologist Mary Anderson. * * *Toxic releases. "County no longer No. 1 polluter in state: Lake still ranks sixth nationally for manufacturing pollution." That is the headline to this story today in the Munster Times detailing the recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory with respect to Lake County. Posted by Marcia Oddi at June 25, 2004 04:56 PMTodd Kleven, project manager for Hawk Development Co., contacted the Army Corps of Engineers and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management June 15 after he discovered a half-acre wetland parcel had been filled with dirt along the western boundary of Hawk’s Pine Hill subdivision. Crews from Robert Stiglich’s neighboring Stillwater subdivision had dumped the soil on the Pine Hill property, according to Kleven. The dirt had been removed by June 17, leaving a muddy hole where there had previously been cattails and bushes.