To investigate the quality of water in New Mexico public water systems, the New Mexico Environment Department’s Emerging Contaminants Program (NMED ECP) has received funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Emerging Contaminants in Small or Disadvantaged Communities Grant is funding the NMED’s ECP in a two-year study, which will include sampling public […]
DBS&A had the honor of attending the Hopi Tribe’s groundbreaking ceremony for Clean Closure of the Tuba City Dump, which will remove waste at the historical open dump site that contaminated groundwater, discovered in DBS&A’s 1999 site investigation.
The State of New Mexico has officially been added to the US EPA’s Class VI Primacy Tracker
DBS&A congratulates the Fillmore and Piru subbasins in Ventura County on the California Department of Water Resources (DWR)’s approval of their Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs).
DBS&A has been supporting the NMED with research to better identify PFAS exposure and migration pathways and health-related risks to humans and human communities. Extraordinary levels of PFAS contamination have been detected among wildlife recently, as described in the NMED’s press release.
Dr. Stephens is applying his specialized technical expertise in vadose zone hydrology and numerical modeling of groundwater contamination as part of an Independent Technical Review of Los Alamos National Laboratory Chromium Interim Measures and Plume Characterization. The ITR will evaluate interim measures to prevent migration of the hexavalent chromium plume beyond the LANL boundary, obtain required data and conduct Corrective Measures Evaluation.
Dr. Botros will be presenting “Numerical Modeling to Estimate Groundwater PFAS Migration Downgradient of Air Force Base AFFF Source Area” at the NGWA Groundwater in the PFAS Era: Stressors, Protection, and Compliance event taking place on April 16 -17, in Tucson, Arizona.
Jean-Luc Cartron, PhD, co-authored the Environmental Research article “Extraordinary levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in vertebrate animals at a New Mexico desert oasis: Multiple pathways for wildlife and human exposure”.
The Carlsbad Current-Argus recently published an article “Lawmakers talk ban on ‘forever chemicals’ in New Mexico oil and gas” citing DBS&A’s work assisting the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Hazardous Waste Bureau with investigation of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) impacts to surface water and groundwater in the vicinity of both Cannon and Holloman Air […]
One of the 2022 National Ground Water Association (NGWA) Outstanding Groundwater Supply Project Awards was presented to the Hopi Utilities Corporation and DBS&A at the 2022 NGWA Groundwater Week event in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 8, 2022.
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