Sentences with phrase «falls water department»

The Town of Seneca Falls Water Department has issued a Boil Water Advisory until further notice.

Enclosure for the new water filtration equipment, left, at the Hoosick Falls water department on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. (Will Waldron / Times Union)

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Because Mary had traveled with her daughter to Lourdes, it had fallen to Jim, a laconic water department supervisor, to organize the fiesta.

The state's Department of Environmental Conservation issued a statement citing its own «ongoing and aggressive response» to the Hoosick Falls water, and saying that the E.P.A. was «finally acting» on a January response for federal Superfund consideration.

The state Health Department refused to caution residents of Hoosick Falls that their water contained levels of toxic chemicals considered unsafe by the federal government for more than a year, even as evidence mounted that a serious health crisis could be unfolding.

State Senator Rob Ortt, R - North Tonawanda, is applauding the Department of Environmental Conservation's investigation into how a plume of waste water ended up in the Niagara River near the falls at the end of July, but he wants to make sure the results are public.

The state Department of Health has been aware that there were dangerous levels of PFOA in the water in the municipal water supply for Hoosick Falls since at least 2014, and that it was above the recommended federal level of 400 parts per trillion put in place in 2009.

«We did receive a letter dated March 10, 2015, from Mayor Borge, that summarized the situation, asked for our assistance, and that stated, «the NYS Department of Health recently published a public notice specific to Hoosick Falls in which it determined that there were no immediate health risks associated with our drinking water.»»

Hickey, who is credited with bringing the issue to light amid resistance from village officials, said he was shocked to hear that state health department officials were aware that the EPA had a preliminary warning of about 400 parts per trillion, but still assured Hoosick Falls residents that the water was safe even though multiple drinking water sources tested higher.

The experts, including one formerly employed by the state health department and three others that have extensively studied the cancer - linked chemical found at high levels in the Hoosick Falls water supply, reviewed the question - and - answer document at POLITICO's request.

The Niagara Falls Water Board is once again in the crosshairs of the state Department of Environmental Conversation for sewer overflows — a problem that plagues communities across the state.

Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, who represents Hoosick Falls, is calling for legislative hearings on what critics claim has been the Cuomo administration's slow response to the village's water crisis, and wants to subpoena records related to the Department of Health's reaction to the unfolding situation.

The governor yesterday sent a state Department of Financial Services Mobile Command Center to Hoosick Falls to help homeowners concerned about their mortgages in the wake of revelations regarding the area's tainted water.

The state Department of Health worked closely with the water systems during the fall to monitor levels of the cyanotoxins every day for three weeks to assure that they did not exceed EPA's health advisory levels for young children and people with pre-existing health problems.

Sewer overflows are well known to the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Niagara Falls Water Board.

ALBANY — While the Cuomo administration has been extensively criticized for its slow reaction to the unfolding Hoosick Falls water pollution crisis, a new trove of emails and meeting notes shows how top state Department of Health officials actively dismissed the Obama administration's increasingly dire warnings and recommended safe consumption levels.

Certainly, lawmakers will question state and federal officials about the slow response to the crisis in Hoosick Falls, and why the state Department of Health assured residents they could drink their water for a year before reversing that position.

The Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm even though federal regulators warned senior health department officials that people in Hoosick Falls should be alerted they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of a chemical linked to cancer and other serious health problems, according to documents recently obtained by POLITICO New York through a Freedom of Information Request.

«How could the department say that, given all the information that the department had... given EPA's statement, in a health advisory that said you shouldn't drink the water in Hoosick Falls?»

A joint statement issued by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health pushed back on the comments made by a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday that the state did not act swiftly when warned of a chemical contamination in Hoosick Falls's drinking water.

At the hearing, state Sen. Kemp Hannon, a Republican from Long Island and chair of the chamber's health committee, blasted the health department for distributing a widely criticized fact sheet to Hoosick Falls residents in December, assuring them that «normal use» of their water would not be harmful.

ALBANY — Hoosick Falls residents who drank from the tainted municipal water supply have, on average, more than 30 times the national level of a toxic chemical in their blood, according to state health department data obtained by POLITICO.

ALBANY — The state Department of Environmental Conservation last week received a draft of a feasibility study looking at what new water sources contamination - ravaged Hoosick Falls could draw from and findings will be shared soon, Commissioner Basil Seggos said Friday.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) has set up a proactive schedule to clean and inspect the water filtration system at Hoosick Falls Central School (HFCS).

That's one of the things that really troubles me — for pregnant women in Hoosick Falls, parents of small kids — if the health department had done their job and alerted people right away that there was a health problem with the drinking water, a lot of people could have avoided that exposure.

On Wednesday, Cuomo also repeated his claims that his administration was aggressive in its response to Hoosick Falls, despite evidence the state health department aggressively pushed back on federal regulators who wanted to sound an alarm about the municipal water pollution.

The New York State Department of Health and Department of Environmental Conservation say tests are showing decontamination of the Hoosick Falls water system is successful.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday sent a state Department of Financial Services Mobile Command Center to Hoosick Falls to help homeowners concerned about their mortgages in the wake of revelations regarding the area's tainted water.

The legislative hearing to examine New York's drinking - water problems was prompted, mostly, by the state Health Department's controversial response to the 2014 discovery of a toxic manufacturing chemical in the water supplies of Hoosick Falls.

Even after the federal Environmental Protection Agency cautioned the state health department about the levels of PFOA contamination in Hoosick Falls, the health department handed out a fact sheet that said, «Health effects are not expected to occur from normal use of the water.»

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Yet even as worry grew in Hoosick Falls, the Health Department told local officials last January that the amount of PFOA that had been found in the water supply «does not constitute an immediate health hazard,» though it recognized a need to «take measures to reduce it.»

This is according to a new study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University who found that if Americans were to switch their diets to fall in line with the Agriculture Department's 2010 dietary recommendations, it would result in a 38 percent increase in energy use, 10 percent bump in water use and a 6 percent increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

ImmunoStar Director of Operations, Colleen Hammer and Rick Ellingworth, UW River Falls Biology Department Lab Manager, stand beside the Millipore Water Filtering System that was donated to his lab.

I felt like my fall watering can needed a little something so I picked up this wheat from Hobby Lobby's floral department.

Meanwhile, in the fish - out - of - water department, Jennifer Steil's «The Woman Who Fell From the Sky: An American Journalist in Yemen» is an entertaining and insightful look at her year spent working at the Yemen Observer amid the Danish cartoon scandal, which her paper published.

One of the reasons they put down so much salt is to prevent liability in a slip - and - fall case,» says Ted Diers, administrator in the Department of Environmental Services» water division.

Last fall Los Angeles» main utility, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP), was weighing a 30 - percent cut to its solar rebate.

World Water Day falls within National Water Week, the awareness campaign by the Department of Water and Sanitation, which emphasises the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource and the role water plays in eradicating poverty and under - development in South AfWater Day falls within National Water Week, the awareness campaign by the Department of Water and Sanitation, which emphasises the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource and the role water plays in eradicating poverty and under - development in South AfWater Week, the awareness campaign by the Department of Water and Sanitation, which emphasises the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource and the role water plays in eradicating poverty and under - development in South AfWater and Sanitation, which emphasises the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource and the role water plays in eradicating poverty and under - development in South Afwater plays in eradicating poverty and under - development in South Africa.