Articles About Ohio EPA :: Page 3

• Real watershed moments for area

  By Megan BachmanMarch 22, 2012

  

  Where Yellow Springs begins and ends is defined by clear political boundaries. But the village also exists within an ecosystem that has boundaries of its own. An important one is its watershed, an area of land that drains into a common waterway.

• Village water, from the ground up

  By Diane ChiddisterMarch 15, 2012

  

  You could say the Yellow Springs water system began about 425 million years ago, when a large inland sea covered the area.

• Drilling effects on groundwater questioned

  By Megan BachmanFebruary 2, 2012

  Despite a yearlong campaign by Yellow Springs and Miami Township residents and environmental activists urging that area landowners not lease their land for oil and gas drilling, three residents northwest of the village in Miami Township have signed lease agreements.

• Managing the Village water

  By Lauren HeatonDecember 1, 2011

  The blackened, crumbly bolts that hold together the 16-inch distribution main in the pump room of the Village water treatment plant tell the whole story. The Village water plant is old and challenged.