Environmental News For The Week Ending 13 March 2019
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Thursday: Trash Traps In River Des Peres Watershed Aim To Stop Litter At Its Source
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Trash Traps to Be Installed in St. Louis Streams
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EPA Region 7’s Trash-Free Waters program, along with Wichita State University’s Environmental Finance Center and the Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper organization, are working with local community groups on a project to install and maintain three trash traps in St. Louis area streams. A stream trash trap is a mechanical system that includes a floating boom and net that funnel and gather floating debris near embankments, canals, or stormwater outfalls before it can reach primary waterways like streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. Three different types of trash traps are being installed at the following locations: “Trash Trout” at Deer Creek in Maplewood, Missouri; “B2B Beaver” at Mackenzie Creek in St. Louis; and, “Litter Gitter” at River Des Peres in University City, Missouri.
Groups threaten Ameren suit over coal ash
Ron DeBrock, ronald.debrock@thetelegraph.com
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The Sioux Energy Center in Portage De Sioux, Missouri, puffs out steam Wednesday in sight of Alton and the Great River Road. Three environmental groups have filed notice of their intent to sue Ameren over coal ash they allege could enter the Mississippi River.
PORTAGE DES SIOUX Three environmental groups on Wednesday announced they have filed a notice of intent to sue Ameren regarding alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act.
Representatives of the Waterkeeper Alliance, the Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper and the Great Rivers Environmental Law Center alleged Ameren is continuing unpermitted discharges of toxic coal ash pollutants from the company’s Sioux Energy Center four miles from Portage Des Sioux, across the Mississippi River from Godfrey.