Water Quality

Ohio’s General Assembly reduced funding to the H2Ohio program in June. The program is designed to protect the state's fresh water from toxic algal blooms and other threats.

Fewer employees, reduced Superfund site cleanup and truncated regulation enforcement are some of the ways the U.S. EPA is keeping afloat during the lapse in federal funds.

The plan to clean up part of the Miami County Superfund site includes removing tons of contaminated soil and filling it with clean materials.

Environmental advocates are among thoes opposing the Ohio House proposal to cut H2Ohio by nearly 45%. This possible change comes as the U.S. EPA and Trump administration also chop funding.

The Ohio Department of Development has contributed $1.6 million toward the Ohio village’s water infrastructure updates since 2021. Now, the Ohio EPA is contributing over $176,000 for additional improvements.

This week's episode of Poor Will's Almanack has notes from Bill Felker's archives of forty years of observation of what happens in nature in the Miami Valley and beyond.

This week's episode of Poor Will's Almanack has notes from Bill Felker's archives of forty years of observation of what happens in nature in the Miami Valley and beyond.

Major companies like Google and Bath & Body Works will pay to restore 11 acres of wetlands. The goal is to prevent recurring toxic algal blooms that have plagued Buckeye Lake.

One of Dayton’s two well fields, the Ottawa Well Field, has levels of PFAS above new EPA limits. It's the subject of a lawsuit the city filed against the base and the Pentagon in 2021.

PFAS, also called "forever chemicals," are under increasing regulatory scrutiny for its links to health effects.Dayton’s laboratory is capable of detecting PFAS levels as low as 2 parts per trillion in a sample.

Tremont City Barrel Fill was used as a landfill for industrial waste from 1976 to 1979. It’s only three miles from Springfield’s drinking water wellfields and a few miles from two waterways. The testing will give insight into whether contamination is spreading off-site.

Piqua residents organized an environmental symposium at Edison State Community College Wednesday to discuss lithium-ion battery emissions.