Sentences with phrase «by iron pipes»
For this unique underground flight, Trifonov had to use a specially designed balloon, which was smaller than a usual hot air balloon and meant the pilot sat on two gas cylinders framed by iron pipes rather than inside a basket.
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In contrast, Baltimore Gas and Electric was on track to replace its cast - iron pipes in 140 years, by around the year 2150.
Duke Energy of Ohio, which serves Cincinnati, had the best track record in the country, replacing 80 percent of its cast - iron pipes through an aggressive program approved by the Public Utility Commission of Ohio in 2001.
Edwards explored this concept through the case studies of St. Joseph, Louisiana, where efforts to fix infrastructure that transported brown water saturated with iron, manganese, and lead were hindered by local corruption; Washington, D.C., where a covered - up water crisis led to increased miscarriage risks, fetal deaths, and lead poisoning in thousands of children; and Flint, Michigan, where a switch to a new water source without adding the anticorrosive agent orthophosphate to the water to protect pipes caused significant lead poisoning, an outbreak of the Legionella bacteria causing twelve deaths, and a breakdown of the water infrastructure.
Most lead measured from home taps is particulate lead ---- lead that's been released from the pipe and bound by iron, aluminum and other minerals.
Some are debarked by an owner shoving an iron pipe into the dog's throat to silence its barks of anguish; others are debarked by a veterinarian.
Musicians too took notice: Schwitters imagined a score in which the tones would be produced by «violin, drum, trombone, sewing machine, grandfather clock, steam of water, etc.,» 40 years before John Cage composed pieces using a watering can, a iron pipe, a bottle of wine, a grand piano, five radios and an electric mixer.
Then they weaken the steel by creating larger gaps between the iron atoms that form the pipe.
That requires the contractor to retrofit the system, principally by excavating part of the system and replacing the PVC with iron pipe.