Sentences with phrase «contaminate nearby water»
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The agency determined, after extensive testing, that the shot was not contaminating the soil or a nearby channel feeding into two ponds as had been alleged by some residents, Joan Muraro, spokeswoman for the IEPA's Bureau of Water in Springfield, said Friday.
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As part of its cleanup of a potentially dangerous chemical that contaminated nearby residents» drinking water, Lisle - based Lockformer Co. is constructing a building to store equipment.
The hearings are drawing interest in the Capital Region amid a water contamination crisis in the village of Hoosick Falls, where the municipal drinking water was found to be contaminated with PFOA, a chemical used in manufacturing plants nearby.
The municipal water supply in Hoosick Falls, a village in Rensselaer County near the Vermont border, was found to have been contaminated with the chemical PFOA from a nearby plastics plant run by Saint - Gobain.
When cholera spread through London's Soho district in 1854, Snow plotted a map of the deadly outbreak and found that everyone who fell ill had used water from a centrally placed public well that was contaminated by nearby sewers and cesspools.
Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.
There's little point in installing clean water when people are contaminating that water by doing their business in or nearby it.
Gas drilling contaminates drinking water Drilling for shale gas may pose a safety hazard if there are water wells nearby.
For this reason, I recommend you avoid spirulina from Japan and nearby waters harvested after March 1, 2011, as they may be contaminated with radiation from the Fukushima nuclear incident.
In many areas, water will become contaminated with falling leaves or seeds from nearby trees.
They were allowed to return within 12 hours of the leak, but there are still questions about how much natural gas escaped, and whether nearby soil and water were contaminated.
The combination of liquid waste with cooling water generates what is known as palm oil mill effluent (POME), a substance that may be dumped in nearby waterways, killing marine life and contaminating the water for drinking and bathing.
The spill occurred at a pumping station, but the spray contaminated soil and water in a nearby field before it could be contained.
«The numbers of coal ash ponds and landfills that are contaminating water supplies continues to grow, yet nearby communities still do not have effective federal protection,» said Earthjustice attorney Lisa Evans.
Even though the spill hit way back in December, the repercussions keep on piling up — now, the Appalachian Voices has completed a study showing that the nearby Emory River, a source of drinking water, has been contaminated with «260 times the allowable amount of arsenic.»