Montgomery County did not violate a developer’s constitutional rights by adopting a water system amendment to a master zoning plan, changes that devalued the planned development, a federal appeals court ruled last week. In its reported 3-0 decision, the 4th ...

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FREDERICK — The chief environmental officer at Fort Detrick says the Army has no plans to post signs warning of potential chemical contamination in surface water. Groundwater samples taken from area wells this spring revealed the presence of chemicals used ...

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CUMBERLAND — The Department of Natural Resources says it has shut off the drinking-water spigot at Big Run State Park in western Maryland because local residents were using most of the water. The Cumberland Times-News reported in its Monday edition ...

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MOUNT SAVAGE — About 450 people in western Maryland town of Mount Savage are getting more reliable drinking water. Maryland Congressman Roscoe Bartlett is among the dignitaries scheduled to attend a dedication ceremony Monday for the energy-efficient water distribution system. ...

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HAGERSTOWN — The Maryland Department of the Environment says water seeping from the ground in the area of Washington County’s Old City/County Landfill was found to have an arsenic level nearly twice as high as the federal standard for drinking ...

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FREDERICK — Frederick City officials say 3.5 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into Carroll Creek after a waste water treatment plant lost power for about nine hours. The spill occurred about 500 feet upstream from the Monocacy River, which ...

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WASHINGTON — The Potomac River is facing dual challenges from its country and city life. The Potomac Conservancy says the river responsible for much of the District of Columbia’s drinking water faces challenges from forestry and farming in rural upstream ...

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WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is set to start the first federal probe into whether the controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing is spoiling and diminishing drinking water supplies. The agency’s final study plan was released Thursday. The ...

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WASHINGTON — New research is providing some of the first scientific evidence that a controversial gas drilling technique can contaminate drinking water. The study published Monday found potentially dangerous concentrations of methane gas in water from wells near drilling sites ...

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HINKLEY, Calif. — At the end of “Erin Brockovich,” a housewife sick from toxic chromium weeps with joy as she’s handed her portion of a historic $333 million settlement between residents of this small desert town and the utility that ...

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