Sentences with phrase «city water systems»

It is well recognized that city water systems are far from «clean,» as recent reports seem to suggest.

Getting dunked in a pond or the city water system doesn't do anything to connect you to Christ, His blood or wash away your sins.

Mahoney also recommended merging the city water system with the Onondaga County Water Authority, an idea that was rejected in June by an Onondaga County legislative committee on shared services.

Melissa Haeffner, a PSU environmental science professor and the study's principal investigator, said that residents who received communications from their local water bureaus or served on a city water system advisory board or committee had perspectives and concerns that were more aligned with those of political leaders and professional water managers.

First, they examined the chemical deposits that normally collect on the lead service lines — water pipes made of pure lead that connect individual homes to the city water system.

If the project collapses, the city water system may be forced to buy the contract.

«It's not a tax on water, it's a tax on plastic,» says Alderman George Cardenas, who introduced the measure to help offset revenue declines from the city water system, reduce litter and decrease the amount of oil used to produce and transport bottled water.»

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.

Under the auspices of the Jefferson Project, IBM has teamed up with Dublin City University Water Institute to launch a pilot program that uses the Internet of Things combined with advanced analytics to monitor and manage ecological systems.

Our mission is to support the growth of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.

Mayor Landrieu's predecessors both attempted to privatize the city's water, arguing it would keep rates down as the city undertook costly repairs to bring the system in line with the Clean Water Act standwater, arguing it would keep rates down as the city undertook costly repairs to bring the system in line with the Clean Water Act standWater Act standards.

«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.

In 2001, the city came close to outsourcing its water and wastewater systems control in what would have been the largest private procurement of its kind in the United States.

Benzene, the cancer - causing chemical that city officials believe was sucked into its water system in a heavily burned area of Fountaingrove, is continuing to be discovered in new places, including one in Coffey Park.

As cities and states find it too costly to manage their own water systems, American Water can swoop in to buy great assets on the cwater systems, American Water can swoop in to buy great assets on the cWater can swoop in to buy great assets on the cheap.

While bottled is preferable, even the water in the city system would do in a pinch.

The New York WaterMaker is a patent - pending water source replication system that not only functions as a commercial water filter, but also replicates the exact hardness, molecular structure, and chemical composition of a specific location's water, with a key focus on replicating New York City water.

Since 2008, the city of Chicago has been modernizing its water system, replacing water mains and pipes that are sometimes more than 100 years old.

Chicago's old housing means lead pipes bring water into most homes, and the city's efforts to modernize the water system may be making contamination worse.

If the city has done work on the water system in your neighborhood in the past few years, you've likely gotten a little pamphlet stuck to your door, informing you about the process and, if you bother to read to the end, what you can do to avoid problems with lead in the water.

One of the most expensive projects this year would be work on reconstructing the system of walls that protects the city from the waters of Lake Michigan.

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 idea is that you flush them where they dissolve and the water gets treated by your city sewage system, instead of putting diapers in the garbage.

A portion of the city's water system was found to have a reading that exceeded the state limit for a potentially hazardous chemical, total trihalomethane, while the city was upgrading water storage tanks in 2017, the city reported.

He visited the city's water department to tour the future site of Newburgh's new carbon filtration system.

The decision to forgo a local water rate increase comes after Miner spent the past few months prodding leaders in Washington and Albany for extra money to repair the city's aging drinking water system.

Cuomo is celebrating the installation of treatment systems that aim to prevent algal toxins from entering the drinking water supplies for the city of Auburn and town of Owasco.

«The two rounds that were taken, we are both clear of chloroform in the distribution system so people can now return to the potable drinking now that the city is up to the potable drinking water standards,» Tkaczyk said.

The agency is perhaps best known for its role in managing the city's complex water system and proposing the city's water rates, which have long been criticized by some advocates as a backdoor tax on homeowners.

«While the City of Syracuse has assured residents its drinking water systems remain safe, the severe threat of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) must not be taken lightly,» Rep. John Katko, R - N.Y., said in a statement.

Mayor John Tkaczyk said a second day of testing showed the absence of Coliform, the bacteria that was found in water samples late last week, prompting the boil water notice and since then, city workers have been treating the water aggressively to clear up the system.

The city is now drawing water from the Catskill Aqueduct while a carbon filtration system is designed, all being funded by the state.

However, the presence of any potentially disease - causing organisms in drinking water supplies is of concern, particularly to upstate communities that receive water from that part of the Catskill / Delaware system that has not been treated by the City's UV disinfection facility in Westchester County.

The city draws water from the Catskill Aqueduct while a carbon filtration system is constructed.

City officials are glad to know that 120 leaks in its water system have been identified and can be repaired, reducing the amount of water being lost as Newburgh continues to face its contamination crisis.

«Our aggressive actions have secured an interim clean drinking water source and upgrades to the City's water infrastructure while a new carbon filtration system is constructed.

She has reported on controversies around discipline in charter schools, racial segregation in the New York City school system, and flaws in the city's method of testing for lead in water in schoCity school system, and flaws in the city's method of testing for lead in water in schocity's method of testing for lead in water in schools.

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

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is celebrating the installation of treatment systems that aim to prevent algal toxins from entering the drinking water supplies for the city of Auburn and town of Owasco.

The city of Auburn and town of Owasco will receive more than $ 2 million to upgrade drinking water treatment systems, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announc...

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The city of Auburn and town of Owasco will receive more than $ 2 million to upgrade drinking water treatment systems, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.

Without that aid, Quill said the city «would be hurting» and would have to cut other services to come with the money needed for water system upgrades.

At an event held at the Emerson Park Pavilion on Wednesday, Cuomo announced the state will fund the installation of two systems that aim to address concerns about blue - green algae toxins detected in drinking water supplies for the city of Auburn and town of Owasco.

In light of lead concerns at two elementary schools, the Ithaca City School System has turned off drinking water sources in all of its school.

In the environmental impact statement, Pilgrim Pipeline developers note that risks in the event of a spill or breach include water systems that use the Hudson River and specifically identify the Port Ewen Water District in Esopus, the Rhinebeck village water system, Highland Water District, Hyde Park Water District, and city of Poughkeepsie Water Distwater systems that use the Hudson River and specifically identify the Port Ewen Water District in Esopus, the Rhinebeck village water system, Highland Water District, Hyde Park Water District, and city of Poughkeepsie Water DistWater District in Esopus, the Rhinebeck village water system, Highland Water District, Hyde Park Water District, and city of Poughkeepsie Water Distwater system, Highland Water District, Hyde Park Water District, and city of Poughkeepsie Water DistWater District, Hyde Park Water District, and city of Poughkeepsie Water DistWater District, and city of Poughkeepsie Water DistWater District.

Mayor Stephanie Miner has asked state lawmakers for help fixing the city's water system, which averages about one water main break a day.

At an event held at the Emerson Park Pavilion, Cuomo announced the state will fund the installation of two systems that aim to address concerns about blue - green algae toxins that were detected in drinking water supplies for the city of Auburn and town of Owasco.

It's also the source of $ 10 million going to the city of Syracuse to address its water system breaks.

«The Environmental Facilities Corp. is pleased to assist New York City and 17 other local governments in their efforts to provide safe and reliable clean water systems, improving the environment and water quality, protecting public health, and creating jobs throughout the state,» said EFC President and CEO Matthew J. Driscoll.