Recent Water Project Work

• LEAN Water Fact Sheet Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality is NOT Protecting Water Quality & Public Health in Louisiana. Read
  
  
• River Reporter View Mississippi River data from the Early Warning Organic Chemical Detection System (EWOCDS). This is the first time the river data has been shown to the public. See the data.
  
  
• TMDL Enforcement. LEAN is currently negotiating with the EPA on how to enforce the requirements of a recent court victory. The court ordered the EPA to clean up Louisiana's rivers in accordance with the Clean Water Act.
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• Mrytle Grove: Vinyl Chloride found in Well Water. Read the tragic stories about how a foul-up at DHH allowed hundreds of people to drink contaminated well water. The people are fighting back and have formed LEAN's newest member organization.
  Letter to the Federal prosecutor. Read
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  Mrytle Grove One Year Later
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• LEAN Fights Merchant Power Plants. The power generation industry is attempting to move into Louisiana in droves. The problem is that they will need critical amounts of Louisiana's drinking water aquifers.
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• LEAN's Final Riverkeeper Report. LEAN A survey was performed to determine what groups and organizations sample Mississippi River water in the industrial corridor for chemical or metals contamination, what information is obtained and what is done with the results. LEAN also took one years worth of Mississippi River water samples at six different points along the river from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
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