Manganese is a rock and soil mineral concentrated in groundwater and can often appear in drinking water supplies. Louisiana has long had a manganese problem, and cities across the state have ...
PITTSFIELD, MASS. – (NEWS10) The town of Great Barrington is urging a judge to uphold a nuisance order that would require Housatonic Water Works (HWW) to provide bottled water to its customers ...
The urgency for both projects was heightened by DPH recommendations to keep manganese levels in drinking water below 0.3 mg per liter. Previously, the level was set at 0.5 mg/L, according to the DPH.
A water system plagued for years by the smelly, brownish-red scourge of manganese is in the clear now that the town's last unfiltered well has been connected through a 3,500-foot pipe to the Bride ...