Sentences with phrase «water contamination at»

«Control of Ground Water Contamination at an Active Uranium Mill,» Ground Water Monitoring Review, Spring 1985.

Last fall, Investigative Post reported about potential water contamination at Gallagher Beach, where U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Byron Brown had hoped to open for swimming this summer.

Last fall, Investigative Post reported about potential water contamination at Gallagher Beach, where U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Byron -LSB-...]

Written testimony, Joint Senate Health and Environmental Conservation Committee Hearing on Drinking Water Contamination at Hoosick Falls, August 2016 (and cover letter)

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«The EPA's own science advisers are rightfully responding to the EPA's report with the fact that drilling and unconventional extraction are risks to the water cycle and that water contamination is a common and inherent problem,» said Tony Ingraffea, a professor at Cornell University.

In 2006, a physician working at a clinic in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., raised the alarm over what he considered high rates of cancer in the community, the result, he surmised, of water contamination from the oilsands operations upstream.

Right now, Christy Clark and her government are refusing to address the problem of water contamination in schools, and that refusal is putting children at risk,» said Rice.

Factor in population increases, aging infrastructure, increased demand from agricultural applications and contamination issues and you are looking at a potential opportunity and windfall for water related companies to take advantage.

In response to Stone's concerns about water contamination, a Naperville laboratory studied a sample from the well at the gun club in March.

put the correct warnings on labels [regarding intrinsic contamination with Enterobacter Sakazakii and the need to make up the formula with water at 70 degrees.]

Tanks used for storage of process waters have apparent visible debris, filth and microbiological contamination... There is no laboratory analysis for water used in ice manufacturing at the [redacted] facility to show the water used to make ice is potable... Apparent bird feces were observed on the ice manufacturing equipment at Moon Fishery; insects and filth were observed in and on the equipment... Tuna processed at your facility, which is consumed raw or cooked, comes in direct contact with water and ice.

For the first time, Georgia Division of Environmental Protection will check the addresses where water systems take their samples to be sure those sites are at the highest risk for lead contamination.

Babies who are fully or partially formula fed are at risk if their caregivers lose access to clean water, are unable to sterilise feeding equipment or suffer disruption or contamination of their formula milk supplies.

Environmental advocates are calling on state lawmakers to use the final six weeks of the session to develop and pass legislation requiring lead and copper water testing at the tap in New York schools and, if necessary, remediation of contamination.

At the same time, the governor announced the formation of task force to respond to water quality and contamination issues when they arise.

On Tuesday, August 30 at 10:30 a.m., the state Senate will hold a long - awaited hearing on water contamination in Hoosick Falls.

The questions came at the first of these two joint Senate and Assembly public hearings, but the talk was dominated by the contamination of drinking water in Hoosick Falls, as well as issues that have developed in Petersburgh and Newburgh.

The two Democrats made their call at Washington Lake, Newburgh's main drinking water supply, where toxic PFOS contamination was found in the spring of 2016.

After facing sharp criticism over the state's response to water contamination in the village of Hoosick Falls, Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year signed the $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act, which is aimed at upgrading drinking and clean water infrastructure across the state and instituting new quality control measwater contamination in the village of Hoosick Falls, Gov. Andrew Cuomo this year signed the $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act, which is aimed at upgrading drinking and clean water infrastructure across the state and instituting new quality control measWater Infrastructure Act, which is aimed at upgrading drinking and clean water infrastructure across the state and instituting new quality control measwater infrastructure across the state and instituting new quality control measures.

In a tweet, de Blasio's 2011 campaign adviser Bill Hyers knocked Cuomo's statement at the news conference, saying the governor should «concentrate» on his own issues, such as the Hoosick Falls water contamination.

Hoosick Falls, a town northeast of Albany (almost at the Vermont border), has also been suffering widespread drinking water contamination with serious effects.

Health officials in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration faced sharp questioning Tuesday at the first legislative hearing examining the water contamination crisis in the upstate village of Hoosick Falls.

DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos released the results at a press conference in Newburgh, where officials have been grappling with PFOS water contamination since mid-2016.

Seggos and Hutton were at the press conference with Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who announced legislative action he is taking to ensure the Department of Defense pays for the remediation of PFOS contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base and halts PFOS - laden discharges from the base into area water bodies, including the city's main drinking water source, Washington Lake.

At the same time, Cuomo dinged the press for being a «day late and a dollar short» on the PFOA contamination of the village's water supply.

Fred LeBrun tracks the flip - flopping over the bill aimed at aiding Hoosick Falls resident sue over the PFOA contamination of their water.

The Republican plan includes investments aimed at clean water infrastructure, more funding for environmental protection and strengthening measures designed to monitor chemical contaminations.

HOOSICK FALLS — The village, which is dealing with water contamination, now has a problem at the water treatment plant, and residents have been asked to limit water use.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will take part in a roundtable discussion of the ongoing water contamination crisis with residents of Hoosick and Petersburgh at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Hoosick Falls High School auditorium, 21187 Route 22.

Higgins said he isn't aware of any documented evidence of contamination in the sediment or water at Gallagher Beach.

-- Basil Seggos on Wednesday, September 7th, 2016 in a response at a legislative hearing on water quality and contamination

The Rensselaer County village is currently dealing with a water contamination crisis after samples taken from public and private water wells detected perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, at levels above federal guidelines.

Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, calling for an immediate investigation into the possible cause of PFOS contamination in Newburgh's main drinking water source — outfalls into retention ponds at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

Hoosick Falls residents hold signs during a news conference at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., in June calling for hearings on the state's handling of PFOA contamination in drinking water in their town.

State regulators blame the use of firefighting foams at Stewart Air National Guard Base for the contamination and, in response, have funded Newburgh's purchase of water from New York City and a new filtration system designed to eliminate PFOS from water.

Governor Cuomo's health commissioner faced an intense grilling from lawmakers at a joint hearing on how the administration handled water contamination in the eastern New York village of 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.

Most residents who spoke at the meeting, held in the village's old armory, opposed the agreement, which Mayor David Borge said would help cover the village's costs from water contamination.

Over 100 residents gathered at the Hoosick Falls Center School to learn the results of PFOA testing at four sites in the village and find out what the next steps are in addressing the issues of water contamination in Hoosick Falls.

Company Saint - Gobain, whose building on McCaffrey Street is at the center of the water contamination issue, is paying for the filtration system.

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.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone speaks at a public hearing on water quality and contamination at the Suffolk County Legislature Building in Smithtown, N.Y., on Monday.

At Tuesday's state Senate hearing on the water contamination in Hoosick Falls, the federal EPA came in for criticism from some state officials who blamed the agency for failing to lead, and from some lawmakers who said they were disappointed the EPA did not send a representative to the hearing.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released new health advisories for PFOA and PFOS, the manufacturing chemicals at the center of water contamination crises in several communities in the region including Hoosick Falls, Petersburgh, and North Bennington.

The students, who designed and delivered their own power point presentation to the entire student body at the schools» auditorium, say the town leaders, as well as state and federal governments, have been too slow to respond to water contamination deemed by the EPA to be so serious that they are no longer allowed to drink, cook or bathe with it.

And last Friday, after students at the local high school held a forum and press conference to discuss the water contamination issue, they asked Governor Andrew Cuomo to make plans for a brand new water supply.

Investigative Post has been reporting on water pollution and and soil contamination at the beach.

Some $ 2.5 billion will fund new water - infrastructure projects following the contamination crisis at Hoosick Falls.

Since discovery of the contamination, Saint - Gobain has been paying for bottled water for the town — stacked high in the aisles of a local supermarket — as well as a new carbon - filtration system for the village, at an estimated cost of more than $ 3 million.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's health commissioner faced an intense grilling from lawmakers Wednesday at a joint hearing on how the administration handled water contamination in the eastern New York village of Hoosick Falls.