Articles About toxic plumes

• Village Council — Vernay cleanup plan probed

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 6, 2018

  

  A member of the Yellow Springs Environmental Commission urged Village Council at its Aug. 20 meeting to weigh in on a plan to clean up a highly contaminated industrial site in the village.

• Plan dropped; wellhead likely safe

  By Lauren HeatonMay 31, 2012

  Sometime in 1988, a host of volatile organic chemicals were found deep in the aquifer that feeds the Village’s municipal drinking water wells. Around the same time, the federal government mandated safeguarding the quality of the groundwater.

• Toxic sites are under control

  By Lauren HeatonApril 5, 2012

  Over the past two decades, Vernay, along with Morris Bean & Company, YSI, Inc. and the Village Water Reclamation plant, have all been point sources of pollution to local ground and surface water. But through their efforts and work with the U.S. and Ohio Environmental Protection Agencies, all four point sources of area water pollution have made strides to control and mitigate the damage they caused to the local watershed.