Due to contamination of some wells, members of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection met with homeowners in the DeLand County Club Estates to discuss their latest findings. The meeting ...

A Dededo water well containing enough dieldrin that regulators deem increased cancer risk "unacceptable" was shut down only in July, while a Mangilao well that fell into that range as recently as 2023 ...

For months, residents of the Country Club estates neighborhood near DeLand have worried why more than 100 private wells were poisoned by a banned insecticide. This week, an investigative team with the ...

Mangilao residents on Monday night raised their concerns about cancer-causing pesticide dieldrin in an active water well in the village, which is also home to the University of Guam and the Water and ...

DeLAND, Fla. – Residents in DeLand were upset Tuesday night after a meeting in which the state presented a 120-page report on levels of water contamination revealed no new information. The state said ...

Trace amounts of pesticides have been found in two Oahu water systems, the state Department of Health confirmed Thursday. Trace levels of the chemical dieldrin were detected in the Honolulu Board of ...

EXPERIMENTAL work during the past two years has shown that the period of protection against sheep blowfly strike conferred by aldrin and dieldrin dips can vary from 12 to more than 40 weeks. In ...

USING a fly bioassay technique, Kunze and Laug 1 reported the presence of toxicant in liver, kidney, abdominal fat and urine of rats fed dieldrin or aldrin. They observed that the toxicant in kidney ...