Sentences with phrase «city sewer system»

A recent suit found that a seller told the real estate agent that the home's sewer system was connected to the city sewer system.

New York court holds listing broker liable for seller's incorrect assertion that home was connected to city sewer system.

He has extensively explored the New York City Sewer System and other tunnels in the New York City area such as the New York City Subway System and Amtrak tunnels that run through the city.

Toilet paper also constitutes a significant load on the city sewer systems, and water treatment plants.

A properly operating septic system is a vital part of homes without city sewer systems.

Not exact matches

Scott started putting his work ethic to good use helping doctors in Liberia, the polar opposite of New York City, where there was no running water, no electricity and no sewer system.

Through her work, Danielle has been instrumental in securing compliance with environmental laws and industry conversions to environmentally sound technologies, including a settlement with the City and County of Los Angeles resulting in a $ 2.1 billion sewer system upgrade.

«No solid evidence has come to light that suggests privatizing the city's water and sewer systems would be in the public's best interest,» watchdog group Public Citizen concluded at the time.

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

The Niagara Falls Water Board announced Friday that it plans a publicity and education campaign about the condition of the city's sewer system.

Those clients include Forest City Ratner, the Brooklyn company leading the $ 260 million Nassau Coliseum renovations; KPMG, the financial advisers that want to help the county lease its sprawling sewer system to private investors for as much as $ 800 million; and American Traffic Solutions, the operators of the county's red - light camera program, which typically gets more than $ 5 million annually in ticket revenue.

Cuomo told reporters after a visit to Liverpool yesterday that government consolidation is the only way a city like Syracuse can afford things like massive repairs to a crumbling sewer system.

The Niagara Falls Water Board announced that it plans a publicity and education campaign about the condition of the city's sewer system.

Miner has pushed in recent years for a renewed focus on upstate infrastructure projects, including her city's troubled water and sewer system.

The project — funded by the city and Borough President James Oddo — will repave several roads in the center of the museum grounds, add new lighting to the streets, install new water mains and put the museum on the sewer system.

The city is working with Onondaga County to try to locate Closure's body, using cameras in the sewer system, which at some points is wide enough to walk through.

Felix Rohatyn, the Lazard banker, is still at it: he is telling financially - strapped U.S. cities, to drop their traditional unwillingness to sell off public assets (water and sewer systems, parks, properties, ports, airports, etc.) to «private foreign investors» — Rohatyn's euphemism for international funny money — and allow himself and cronies to grab it up.

Authorities believe 28 - year old Brandon Closure was swept away into the city's storm sewer system, after he accidentally stepped into an open manhole blown open by surging rain water.

At a special meeting on Tuesday, May 15, the Shandaken Town Board decided to apply to the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for an extension on the town's grant for building a sewer system in Phoenicia.

Common Council President James Noble, who recently formed an infrastructure committee to help track and coordinate the city's efforts to deal with an aging sewer and stormwater system and other problems said that he had received no word from the Mayor's office regarding the status of the sinkhole project.

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«When I sign things, I guess it's one less word I have to write,» Sapienza, who started as an engineer 34 years ago with the agency that runs the city's water and sewer systems, quipped in an interview with the Daily News.

Improved access for the disabled was also provided, and hardy new plantings were put in place, which will help reduce rainwater runoff into the city's sewer system.

In addition to revamping the streets, the architects also suggest overhauling the sewer system in lower Manhattan to carry storm water along the city's permeable lands, where it would be absorbed back into the ground.

Combined, these two adjustments would keep runoff water from overwhelming the city's aged sewer system, which today leads to raw waste being flushed into the river during storms.

Three times, the city's sewer system overflowed into the dig trench after a big rain, and we had to pump it clear again.

Thus, the city is awaiting a decision on a grant from the federal government that would pay for more than 4,000 new manhole covers that keep water out of the sewer system.

Dubai has no central sewer system, so sewage is taken by the truckload to the city's only treatment plant.

If your body were a small city, then the lymph would be the garbage men, the sewer system and the police force all in one.

Like city sewer and industrial waste disposal systems, water is the medium required to waste products out of the body.

Animated feature about a British mouse that's flushed down the toilet of his posh Kensington home and discovers a whole city in the London sewer system, populated mostly by rodents.

Imagine if a mostly mute Gollum (from The Lord of the Rings) were to be found skulking in the sewers and subway systems beneath the city, and you'll begin to realize just how lame villainy can be.

It was in 1955 that Grovetown purchased its first fire truck, and the city established a sewer system in 1988.

The 21 Club at West 52nd Street was said to have a complicated system of levers to tip shelves and slide bottles into the city's sewers if the feds showed up; they were raided in 1932 but no alcohol was discovered.

Fifth Third Securities Public Finance Group provides a broad range of debt underwriting, placement and financial advisory services to municipal issuers including state level issuers, cities, villages, townships, counties, school districts, water and sewer districts and other public utility systems, health care facilities, and higher education institutions.

The Strategy Municipal bonds, also known as munis, are issued by states, cities, counties and other government entities below the federal level in order to raise money for public improvements like highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, sewer systems, water treatment plants and other such projects.

The current drainage and sewer system is also not adequate and the city and KC Pet Project just spent substantial sums of money to get the kennel drains up to a minimum standard.

After more than ten years of financial and technical support from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), a sewer system for Belize City was completed in the 1980s.

To prevent pollution from combined sewer overflows (CSOs), developing cities need to build one sewer system for runoff from streets, and a separate sewer system for wastewater from homes and businesses.

Rising sea levels imminently threaten to prevent water from discharging properly from the sewer system, which will cause sewage to back up and flood certain sections of the city.

When large quantities of water flow into the combined sewer overflow systems, which make up 60 to 70 percent of the city's sewers, they tend to spill over into New York City's rivcity's sewers, they tend to spill over into New York City's rivCity's rivers.

Lester R. Brown, «Global Warming Forcing U.S. Coastal Population to Move Inland,» Eco-Economy Update (Washington DC: Earth Policy Institute, 16 August 2006); water and power from Connie Kline, «New Orleans Looks Like Katrina Hit Yesterday; U.S. Needs to Step Up,» Ventura County Star, 6 August 2006; garbage collection from Susan Saulny, «Despite a City's Hopes, an Uneven Repopulation,» New York Times, 30 July 2006; telecommunications from Gary Rivlin, «Patchy Recovery in New Orleans,» New York Times, 5 April 2006; sewer system from «Katrina Recovery Deemed a Mixed Bag,» Associated Press, 15 August 2006.

Recently, the City of Indianapolis announced that by using wetlands, trees, and downspout disconnection to reduce stormwater flows into their combined sewer system, the City will be able to reduce the diameter of the planned new sewer pipe from 33» to 26», saving over $ 300 million.

Cities are long - lived durable capital and it takes «time to build» the infrastructure necessary for a city ranging from housing, commercial buildings, transportation infrastructure, sewer systems, electricity generation.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court, seeks damages from the five largest publicly - traded oil companies — BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell — to help pay for the city's work adapting to climate change, including coastal protections and upgrading its sewer system.

Many Northeast cities, including New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, are served by combined sewer systems that collect and treat both stormwater and municipal wastewater.

And «To adapt to climate change, the city needs to improve its emergency response system, upgrade its sewer and drainage systems and ensure that vulnerable populations are properly planned for, said Deborah Harford, a panel speaker and executive director of the SFU Climate Change Team.»

Much like water systems in the city or most counties, if you're building a new home and want an alternative wastewater system, there is a strong probability that you will still be required to tie into either a backyard septic or a city sewer option.

Is there a change in humidity from such sewer systems inside the city as opposed to outside of it?

This process prevents stormwater runoff from entering the City's sewer systems.