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The Ashtabula River is located in northeast Ohio, flowing into Lake Erie at Ashtabula Ohio. Tributaries include Fields Brook, Hubbard Run, Strong Brook, and Ashtabula Creek. The bottom sediments, bank soils and biota of Fields Brook have been severely contaminated by unregulated discharges of hazardous substances. Hazardous substances have migrated downstream from Fields...
Decades of manufacturing activity and improper waste disposal practices have resulted in the release of hazardous substances to the Ottawa River and its watershed. Hazardous substances have migrated from landfills along the banks of the Ottawa River and from industrial facilities in the watershed, contaminating water, fish, and wildlife in the Ottawa River and adjacent North Maumee Bay....
On or before March 17, 2014, a 20-inch diameter pipeline, owned by the Mid-Valley Pipeline Company and operated by Sunoco Logistics Partners, L.P. (“Sunoco”)/Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), ruptured discharging approximately 500 barrels (~21,000 gallons) of crude oil into a small stream and subsequently into a wetland within the Oak Glen Nature Preserve (Preserve) and adjacent...
Duck and Otter Creeks are two adjacent creeks in the larger urbanized Maumee River watershed in Northwestern Ohio. The Creeks lie just east of the Maumee River, and both flow into Maumee Bay on Lake Erie. Decades of refining and manufacturing activity along the Creeks and improper waste disposal practices have resulted in releases of hazardous substances to both Creeks. Organic pollutants,...
The Dover Chemical Site (the “Site”) occupies approximately 60 acres on the east bank of Sugar Creek, approximately 1 mile above the confluence with the Tuscarawas River in east central Ohio. The Dover Chemical Corporation facility has been in production since 1949, producing chlorinated organic compounds, including dichlorobenzene, trichlorobenzene, tetrachlorobisphenol A (TCBA),...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has issued an Incidental Take Permit under the Endangered Species Act to NiSource Inc. (now Columbia Pipeline Group), a natural gas storage and distribution company. The permit was issued in conjunction with the company’s comprehensive Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) to conserve dozens of endangered species while operating and...