Sentences with phrase «contaminate local drinking water»

The Democrat on Thursday proposed a $ 65 million plan to study, treat and prevent the blooms, which can contaminate local drinking water supplies, sicken people and animals in the water and interfere with recreation.

Certain harmful algal blooms, or HABs, have the potential to produce dangerous toxins that can contaminate local drinking water supplies, sicken people, harm aquatic life, and interfere with lake recreation activities.

An August 2010 joint study by the Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice, and the Sierra Club reported that 39 coal ash dump sites in 21 states have contaminated local drinking water or surface water with arsenic, lead, and other heavy metals at levels that exceed federal safe drinking water standards.

Not exact matches

- your drinking water has been contaminated because of flooding - you're travelling abroad and drinking the local water is not recommended

The EPA's new guidance will go a long way in protecting public health and arming local officials with the most up - to - date information to keep our drinking water safe from harmful contaminates.»

Fallout from the discovery of the toxic chemical in the water supply of Hoosick Falls later erupted into a war of finger - pointing between local, state and federal agencies after questions emerged in late 2015 about why it took at least 14 months before residents were warned to stop drinking from the village's contaminated wells.

The 600 - plus - page report that resulted looks at a variety of ways fracking could have an effect on local drinking water: withdrawing millions of gallons of water needed to frack a well, improperly mixing chemicals with the water at the well, injecting that fracking fluid into the ground at high pressure to fracture rock as much as two miles beneath the surface, handling the contaminated water then produced by the well and finally improperly storing or disposing of that water.

«Would you want your family, your loved ones, yourself, to breathe contaminated air, drink and bathe in toxic water, have interminable explosions rocking your peace, have your local community depopulated, and have your once - beautiful surroundings degraded?

The factory closed down, but local residents still live on contaminated soil and drink polluted water.

In the process of fracking, the «toxic soup» of chemicals used to break apart shale rock can leach into underground aquifers, wells and other drinking sources, contaminating the water lines that flow into hundreds or thousands of local businesses and homes.

Firms in both Pennsylvania and New York are handling the large number of cases which allege that local drinking water has been contaminated with PFOS and PFOA, unregulated chemicals which are ingredients in the foams.