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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Hurricane Helene's abating floodwaters have enabled residents across storm-hit Southeastern states to return home, but health officials warn survivors now face threats including contaminated water and mold.The big picture: More than 180 storm-related deaths have been confirmed as teams search for missing people, thousands of people still have no power and are without clean water access one week on from the hurricane making landfall in Florida and dumping flooding rains across the Southeast.Critical materials like new water pipes continue to arrive in Asheville and are in the process of being connected to our water service system. We are grateful to our state, federal and private sector partners for their critical assistance. pic.twitter.com/myR19mHbbD— City of Asheville (@CityofAsheville) October 2, 2024 "Access to safe and potable water remains a top concern in Western North Carolina," per a Tuesday statement from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services that noted about 160 boil water advisories were in effect and 27 water plants closed and not producing water due to the storm. Asheville's nearly 100,000 residents may have to wait "weeks" for clean water, city officials said. Meanwhile, boil water and conservation notices were also in effect in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. Thousands of people were estimated Threat level: "Access to clean water is one of the most urgent health concerns after a flood. People need water for drinking, preparing food, cleaning, bathing, even flushing toilets. Contact with contaminated water can cause serious illnesses," wrote disaster epidemiologist Jennifer Horney in The Conversation on Wednesday."Floodwater with sewage or other harmful contaminants in it can lead to infectious diseases, particularly among people who are already ill, immunocompromised or have open wounds," added Horney, who's originally from N.C. and now works as an epidemiology professor at the University of Delaware.Symptoms from infection with waterborne pathogens "can include gastrointestinal upset, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever, and headache," according to a statement from Alasdair Cohen, an assistant professor of environmental epidemiology with the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.Floodwaters pose risks like gastrointestinal illness, dehydration, and carbon monoxide poisoning from improper generator use, per a statement from Julia Gohlke an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine. "Pregnant women face an increased risk of premature labor or preterm birth, and long-term mold exposure can exacerbate asthma."The bottom line: "Flooded regions will need long-term help," Horney notes.More from Axios:Hurricane Helene damages could hit $35 billionStudy reveals thousands of long-term deaths from hurricanesView from space shows path of power outages from Hurricane Helene

The big picture: More than 180 storm-related deaths have been confirmed as teams search for missing people, thousands of people still have no power and are without clean water access one week on from the hurricane making landfall in Florida and dumping flooding rains across the Southeast.

Critical materials like new water pipes continue to arrive in Asheville and are in the process of being connected to our water service system. We are grateful to our state, federal and private sector partners for their critical assistance. pic.twitter.com/myR19mHbbD
— City of Asheville (@CityofAsheville) October 2, 2024

"Access to safe and potable water remains a top concern in Western North Carolina," per a Tuesday statement from the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services that noted about 160 boil water advisories were in effect and 27 water plants closed and not producing water due to the storm.
Asheville's nearly 100,000 residents may have to wait "weeks" for clean water, city officials said.

Meanwhile, boil water and conservation notices were also in effect in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. Thousands of people were estimated

Threat level: "Access to clean water is one of the most urgent health concerns after a flood. People need water for drinking, preparing food, cleaning, bathing, even flushing toilets. Contact with contaminated water can cause serious illnesses," wrote disaster epidemiologist Jennifer Horney in The Conversation on Wednesday.

"Floodwater with sewage or other harmful contaminants in it can lead to infectious diseases, particularly among people who are already ill, immunocompromised or have open wounds," added Horney, who's originally from N.C. and now works as an epidemiology professor at the University of Delaware.
Symptoms from infection with waterborne pathogens "can include gastrointestinal upset, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, fever, and headache," according to a statement from Alasdair Cohen, an assistant professor of environmental epidemiology with the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.

Floodwaters pose risks like gastrointestinal illness, dehydration, and carbon monoxide poisoning from improper generator use, per a statement from Julia Gohlke an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine.

"Pregnant women face an increased risk of premature labor or preterm birth, and long-term mold exposure can exacerbate asthma."

The bottom line: "Flooded regions will need long-term help," Horney notes.

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South Texas Groups Sue State Agency for Allowing SpaceX to Discharge Industrial Water Without Permit

Rio Grande Valley groups are accusing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in a lawsuit of bypassing state regulations by allowing SpaceX to temporarily discharge industrial water at its South Texas launch site without a proper permit

MCALLEN, Texas (AP) — Rio Grande Valley groups are suing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, accusing the agency of bypassing state regulations by allowing SpaceX to temporarily discharge industrial water at its South Texas launch site without a proper permit.The groups — the South Texas Environmental Justice Network, along with the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas, and Save RGV — filed the lawsuit Monday after the agency decided last month to allow SpaceX to continue its operations for 300 days or until the company obtained the appropriate permit.It is the latest in a string of lawsuits filed by environmental groups aimed at curbing the possible environmental impacts of SpaceX’s operations at Boca Chica on the southern tip of Texas.Earlier this year, TCEQ cited SpaceX for discharging water into nearby waterways after it was used to protect the launchpad from heat damage during Starship launches four times this year.SpaceX did not admit to any violation but agreed to pay a $3,750 penalty. Part of the penalty was deferred until SpaceX obtains the proper permit and on the condition that future water discharges meet pollution restrictions.The environmental groups say that allowing SpaceX to continue is a violation of permitting requirements and that TCEQ is acting outside of its authority.“The Clean Water Act requires the TCEQ to follow certain procedural and technical requirements when issuing discharge permits meant to protect public participation and ensure compliance with Texas surface water quality standards,” Lauren Ice, the attorney for the three Rio Grande Valley organizations, said in a statement.“By bypassing these requirements, the Commission has put the Boca Chica environment at risk of degradation,” Ice said.A TCEQ spokesperson said the agency cannot comment on pending litigation.Some of the Rio Grande Valley groups are also involved in a lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration for allegedly failing to conduct an environmental review of SpaceX’s rocket test launch in April. The case remains pending in federal court.They also sued the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for agreeing to a land exchange that would give 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park to SpaceX in exchange for 477 acres adjacent to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. SpaceX canceled the deal in November.This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune and distributed through a partnership with The Associated Press.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Photos You Should See - Sept. 2024

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After Victory Over Florida in Water War, Georgia Will Let Farmers Drill New Irrigation Wells

For more than a decade, farmers in parts of southwest Georgia haven’t been able to drill new irrigation wells to the Floridian aquifer

ATLANTA (AP) — Jason Cox, who grows peanuts and cotton in southwest Georgia, says farming would be economically impossible without water to irrigate his crops.“I'd be out of business,” said Cox, who farms 3,000 acres (1,200 hectares) acres around Pelham.For more than a decade, farmers in parts of southwest Georgia haven't been able to drill new irrigation wells to the Floridian aquifer, the groundwater nearest the surface. That's because Georgia put a halt to farmers drilling wells or taking additional water from streams and lakes in 2012. Farmers like Cox, though, will get a chance to drill new wells beginning in April. Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday that Georgia's Environmental Protection Division will begin accepting applications for new agricultural wells in areas along the lower Flint River starting April 1. Jeff Cown, the division's director, said in a statement that things have changed since 2012. The moratorium was imposed amid a parching drought and the collapse of the once-prolific oyster fishery in Florida's Apalachicola Bay. The state of Florida sued in 2013, arguing that Georgia's overuse of water from the Flint was causing negative impacts downstream where the Flint and Chattahoochee River join to become the Apalachicola River. But a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court in 2021 rejected the lawsuit, saying Florida hadn't proved its case that water use by Flint River farmers was at fault.That was one lawsuit in decades of sprawling litigation that mostly focused on fear that Atlanta’s ever-growing population would suck up all the upstream water and leave little for uses downstream. The suits include the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint system and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa system, which flows out of Georgia to drain much of Alabama. Georgia also won victories guaranteeing that metro Atlanta had rights to water from the Chattahoochee River's Lake Lanier to quench its thirst.Georgia officials say new water withdrawals won't disregard conservation. No new withdrawals from streams or lakes will be allowed. And new wells will have to stop sucking up water from the Floridian aquifer when a drought gets too bad, in part to protect water levels in the Flint, where endangered freshwater mussels live. New wells will also be required to be connected to irrigation systems that waste less water and can be monitored electronically, according to a November presentation posted by the environmental agency.In a statement, Cown said the plans "support existing water users, including farmers, and set the stage to make room for new ones. We look forward to working with all water users as they obtain these newly, developed permits.”Georgia had already been taking baby steps in this direction by telling farmers they could withdraw water to spray vulnerable crops like blueberries during freezing temperatures.Flint Riverkeeper Gordon Rogers, who heads the environmental organization of the same name, said Georgia's action is “good news.” He has long contended that the ban on new withdrawals was “an admission of failure," showing how Georgia had mismanaged water use along the river. But he said investments in conservation are paying off: Many farmers are installing less wasteful irrigators and some agreed to stop using existing shallow wells during drought in exchange for subsidies to drill wells to deeper aquifers that don't directly influence river flow.“What we’re going to do is make it more efficient, make it more equitable and make it more fair," Rogers said. "And we’re in the middle of doing that.”A lawyer for Florida environmental groups that contend the Apalachicola River and Bay are being harmed declined comment in an email. Representatives for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and state Attorney General Ashley Moody did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Cox, who lives about 165 miles (265 kilometers) south of Atlanta, said he's interested in drilling a new well on some land that he owns. Right now, that land relies on water from a neighboring farmer's well. He knows the drought restrictions would mean there would be times he couldn't water his crops, but said data he's seen show there wouldn't have been many days over the last 10 years when he would have been barred from irrigating, and that most of those days wouldn't have been during peak watering times for his crops.Three years ago, Cox drilled a well for some land into a deeper aquifer, but he said even spending $30,000 or more on a shallower well would boost the productivity and value of his land.“It would enhance my property if I had a well myself," Cox said.Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.Photos You Should See - Sept. 2024

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South Texas groups sue TCEQ for temporarily allowing SpaceX to discharge industrial water without a permit

In the lawsuit, the groups accuse TCEQ of exceeding its authority by allowing the discharges.

Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. McALLEN — Rio Grande Valley groups are suing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, accusing the agency of bypassing state regulations by allowing SpaceX to temporarily discharge industrial water at its South Texas launch site without a proper permit. The groups — the South Texas Environmental Justice Network, along with the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas, and Save RGV — filed the lawsuit Monday after the agency decided last month to allow SpaceX to continue its operations for 300 days or until the company obtained the appropriate permit. It is the latest in a string of lawsuits filed by environmental groups aimed at curbing the possible environmental impacts of SpaceX’s operations at Boca Chica on the southern tip of Texas. Earlier this year, TCEQ cited SpaceX for discharging water into nearby waterways after it was used to protect the launchpad from heat damage during Starship launches four times this year. SpaceX did not admit to any violation but agreed to pay a $3,750 penalty. Part of the penalty was deferred until SpaceX obtains the proper permit and on the condition that future water discharges meet pollution restrictions. The environmental groups say that allowing SpaceX to continue is a violation of permitting requirements and that TCEQ is acting outside of its authority. “The Clean Water Act requires the TCEQ to follow certain procedural and technical requirements when issuing discharge permits meant to protect public participation and ensure compliance with Texas surface water quality standards," Lauren Ice, the attorney for the three Rio Grande Valley organizations, said in a statement. "By bypassing these requirements, the Commission has put the Boca Chica environment at risk of degradation," Ice said. The most important Texas news,sent weekday mornings. A TCEQ spokesperson said the agency cannot comment on pending litigation. Some of the Rio Grande Valley groups are also involved in a lawsuit against the Federal Aviation Administration for allegedly failing to conduct an environmental review of SpaceX's rocket test launch in April. The case remains pending in federal court. They also sued the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for agreeing to a land exchange that would give 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park to SpaceX in exchange for 477 acres adjacent to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. SpaceX canceled the deal in November. Reporting in the Rio Grande Valley is supported in part by the Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc. Disclosure: Texas Parks And Wildlife Department has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism. Find a complete list of them here.

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Portland gets federal loan for water treatment plant as costs soar beyond $2 billion

The city of Portland has secured a $319 million federal loan to help finance the construction of a massive new Bull Run water filtration plant as costs have ballooned to $2.1 billion.

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So more places should practice going without.

Last winter, the mountains that shape Bogotá’s skyline more than any skyscraper were on fire. Which is strange in a place known for its abundant rainfall, but Colombia has been running low on precipitation since June 2023. In the spring of this year, the mayor began rationing water—the city and its 11 million inhabitants split into nine zones, each of which would have no water once every 10 days. My brother-in-law had told me about the plan, but by the time my family and I moved to Colombia this past summer, I’d forgotten.One afternoon, not two weeks after unpacking our bags, I tried to refill the half-empty water-purification tank in the kitchen, but when I opened the faucet, nothing happened. I went to the portero, to ask about the absence. He told me it was thanks to the mayor, though we both knew it wasn’t the mayor’s fault.In Colombia, climate change, coupled with deforestation in the Amazon and El Niño weather patterns that have become more intense, has caused a punishing and prolonged drought. The San Rafael reservoir rests above the city and is replenished by water collected in the country’s páramos––a high-alpine ecosystem known for its nearly constant moisture; as of April, when the rationing began, the reservoir was at less than 20 percent capacity. Natasha Avendaño, the general manager of El Acueducto de Bogotá, the organization responsible for the city’s water infrastructure, recently reported that this August was the driest month in the 55 years since the city started keeping track. Restrictions are unlikely to be lifted anytime soon.In our community WhatsApp chat, residents remind one another when our turn for rationing draws near. I fill up containers and deposit them throughout the house: a bucket in each of the bathrooms and a huge stockpot in the kitchen. I’m careful not to exceed what I think we will need to get by. El Acueducto sets monthly caps for households, and fines those who exceed their limits. Getting millions of people to use less water is a complicated dance, but the city tracks our collective effort by publishing the daily consumption rate and the fullness of the reservoirs from which we draw our water. “You’re nothing without water,” Angélica Villarraga, who lives in San Cristóbal and makes a living cleaning homes throughout the city, told me. Avendaño has said she hopes that rationing augments sentiments exactly like that one, and not just on days when the tap runs dry—that it helps residents recognize their dependence on water, and the need to conserve it during lean times. El Acueducto was formed around the turn of the last century to guarantee affordable and clean drinking water in the growing metropolis, and now manages more than 30 percent of the forested mountain reserve that abuts the city. In recent years, the organization has opened nearly a dozen hiking trails in Los Cerros Orientales so that residents make the connection between these mountains and the water that fuels their lives. “The reality is there isn’t enough of this very basic resource,” Jhoan Sebastián Mora Pachón, who manages the Kilómetro 11 y 12 Quebradas trail on behalf of El Acueducto, told me. “The more people respect where the water comes from, the more likely they are to make little changes in their lives to conserve it.” Then he added, “When it is our turn for rationing, we cook more simple meals, and we only wash the dishes once, at night. It’s nice, in a way.”I have spent much of the past 15 years writing about frontline communities affected by climate change, in particular those where higher tides and stronger storms are forcing people to reimagine the way they live. I have learned that letting go of what you think you can’t live without is something a person is more willing to do if they feel that the injustice is shared equally among all. In New York City’s Staten Island, I watched neighbors band together to ask the state to purchase and demolish their flood-prone homes—on the condition that the land itself would go back to nature. Joseph Tirone, a leader of the buyout movement put it this way: “Everybody was pretty much at the same level of wealth, or lack of wealth. If their homes were going to … be knocked down so some developer could build a mansion or a luxury condo, they were not leaving. They’d stay there, they’d rot there, they’d drown there, but they were not leaving.” Eventually the state agreed with residents’ petitions, purchasing and razing hundreds of homes, the property itself becoming part of New York City’s network of parks.The rolling rationing that moves across Bogotá—and the frustration that comes with the disruption—is shared, too, and it generates, if not solidarity exactly, a feeling of mutual inconvenience. Sandra Milena Vargas, who works as a nanny in my neighborhood, told me, “We wake up early, get one last shower, just like you.” Whether one has hired help or works as a domestic laborer, every household revolves around water in much the same way.Doing environmental good is often framed in terms of personal sacrifice––less air travel, adopting a meat-free diet, turning off the heat. Water rationing in Bogotá is different in one key way: It’s a decision taken by a central institution to ensure the health and well-being of the entire city. The places that one might turn to in times of crisis––schools and hospitals, for instance––have water no matter what, to help keep the most vulnerable residents safe, but otherwise everyone is compelled to sacrifice together. “It is something we are used to, even anticipate,” Daniel Osorio, whose family has owned the Unión Libre café in the city’s Úsaquen district for more than nine years, told me. “We bring in five-gallon jugs to run the espresso machine. You adapt,” he said.These sacrifices do take a toll. “Over time you lose confidence in the city to function,” Osorio said. “That’s the real shame.” But what if periodic water rationing weren’t only implemented when the well runs dry? In the future the world is facing, preparation might mean anticipating inevitable shortages, rather than promising they’ll never occur. Imagine, for instance, that governments designated a day without water once every four months—a fire drill, but for drought. Embracing periodic utilities restrictions could be a precautionary measure, a way to prepare for and live on our climate disrupted planet.I’ve been thinking about this as, over the past few months, I have watched Valencia, Spain, be inundated by nearly a year’s worth of rain in a single day; the central high plains of the United States and much of southern Texas descend into drought; and residents across the Southeast reel after back-to-back hurricanes. No amount of preparation would have kept the French Broad River in North Carolina from rerouting straight through the center of Asheville. But those living in communities that were without power and cell service and potable water weeks afterwards might have had more backup systems in place—more buckets of water peppered throughout more homes, more generators, more solar-powered cellphone-service extenders—and muscle memory to maneuver through them, if a rationing drill had compelled them to practice. Doing this kind of adaptive work also teaches one to cope with change. Resilience is a muscle that must be regularly exercised to keep from atrophying. And, perhaps most important, when neighbors ride out small and regular disruptions to daily life together, in many cases they develop information-sharing networks––such as our community WhatsApp chat––so that when a hurricane hits or a heat wave dismantles the grid, they already have in place the kinds of communication hubs and community organizations that make survival through upheaval easier.We can learn to be flexible in the face of change, and one task of our governing institutions is to teach us how. In July, California imposed permanent water restrictions on towns and cities, an attempt to locally respond to droughts that are expected to only get worse in the coming decades. In places where extreme heat regularly overwhelms the grid, municipalities might implement “fire drill” days without electricity. 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