Sentences with phrase «contaminated with»

The state's $ 20 million settlement with Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics will bring municipal water to about 200 homes with wells contaminated with PFOA.

HOOSICK FALLS - Residents were shocked Monday when the testing of sites contaminated with a toxic manufacturing chemical revealed levels significantly higher than originally reported.

Senator Kathy Marchione, whose district includes the village of Hoosick Falls, is the latest to open an inquiry into the handling of the water crisis, amid allegations that the Cuomo Administration knew the water was contaminated with the chemical PFOA, but delayed telling residents for over a year.

Pownal's Fire District Number Two system had been contaminated with slightly elevated levels of PFOA, an industrial chemical linked to ill health effects including cancer.

Since neighbors living in the small Rensselaer County village learned their water was contaminated with the man - made chemical PFOA last December, they say they feel helpless.

In addition to these three properties, Investigative Post reported last July that state and federal officials in 1979 identified dozens of other residential and commercial properties — most in Niagara County — contaminated with what they believe is radioactive industrial waste.

Three New York lawmakers — Schumer, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — are calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to immediately test the city of Newburgh's water supply, which has been found to be contaminated with a toxic chemical.

Washington Lake, the drinking water source for about 30,000 residents, was contaminated with perfluorooctanesulfonic acid, or PFOS.

83 % of schools had a faucet contaminated with lead.

Tap water there is contaminated with high levels of salt.

Their wells are contaminated with salt they say is from a nearby state road - salt storage barn.

But it wasn't so long ago that nobody had heard about the people who could set their tapwater on fire because their wells had been contaminated with natural gas due to hydraulic fracturing.

Hoosick Falls village officials secretly hired a Glens Falls public relations firm last month to help develop «an overall communications program» as criticism mounted about their decision to not warn residents to stop drinking water contaminated with a toxic chemical.

Lassa fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic illness transmitted to humans through contact with food or household items contaminated with rodent urine or faeces.The viruses, which are often transmitted by rodents and bats, can cause fever, vomiting and bleeding, are often fatal.

The muck from the lake bottom, contaminated with mercury and other chemicals, was shipped via pipe about four miles to Camillus.

Nixon, at an event to advocate for clean drinking water in the eastern New York village of Hoosick Falls, which has been contaminated with PFOAs, was asked by reporters whether the governor's actions had anything to do with her candidacy.

The listing indicates the site is believed contaminated with arsenic, lead and copper hydrate.

The state's latest approach to developing the Outer Harbor calls for expediting the construction of housing next to a partially remediated Superfund site contaminated with sludge that possibly causes cancer.

Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin says at least six wells in North Bennington are contaminated with Perfluorooctanoic, a possible carcinogen.

The credit would be worth up to $ 3,000 of the costs related to getting rid of lead pipes and paint and replacing surfaces, windows or fixtures contaminated with the lead paint.

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.

The measure would impact a variety of contamination issues, but it comes after drinking water in Hoosick Falls was found to have been contaminated with the chemical PFOA.

As part of the push to end the legislative session by Thursday, state lawmakers representing Hoosick Falls — where water has been contaminated with PFOA — want to extend the statute of limitations to bring lawsuits against polluters.

Brian Bushner decided to put his name on the ballot because he thinks the current board didn't act fast enough when they learned the water was contaminated with PFOA two years ago.

The bill would extend the current statute of limitations law, to allow a three year window between when New Yorkers find that their water has been contaminated with toxins linked to cancer and other disease, and a Superfund site has been declared, and when they can file a lawsuit.

Hoosick Falls resident Ashlynn Sagendorf, 10, was featured in an advertisement — more than a year after she and other people in the area first learned they had been drinking water contaminated with the chemical PFOA.

Most former industrial sites are contaminated with solvents or metals that leaked into the ground.

The well - drilling unit played a key role in the county's groundwater investigation that forced the U.S. Navy to step up efforts to clean up a groundwater plume contaminated with high concentrations of «volatile organic compounds» beneath the former Grumman weapons facility in Calverton.

Children from Hoosick Falls, N.Y., protested last year in Albany about the drinking water in their town, where water wells, at right, were contaminated with high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid.

It can be spread by eating or drinking food or water contaminated with the virus.

The municipal drinking water in Newburgh in May was found to be contaminated with PFOS above the safe levels as outlined by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The City of Buffalo needs to empower inspectors to get inside houses to determine whether they are contaminated with chipped or flaking lead paint, a report issued Tuesday said.

Senator Schumer on Tuesday visited Washington Lake, the main source of drinking water for Newburgh that is contaminated with PFOS.

David Bond, associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Public Action at Bennington College, describes a new health survey covering three communities contaminated with toxic chemical PFOA on Tuesday morning, Aug. 29, 2017, at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron / Times Union)

Other Downtown schools purportedly contaminated with P.C.B.s include the Leadership and -LSB-...]

So many drank the water and gave it to their children without ever knowing it was contaminated with the manmade chemical PFOA.

Nixon, at an event to advocate for clean drinking water in the eastern New York village of Hoosick Falls, which has been contaminated with PFOA's, was asked by reporters whether the governor's actions had anything to do with her candidacy.

The measure was proposed in the wake of the drinking water in the village of Hoosick Falls was found to have been contaminated with the chemical PFOA, a possible carcinogen.

Earlier in the week, more people in North Bennington with private wells learned their water was contaminated with PFOA.

The new landfill would be large enough to fill 1,200 Olympic sized pools with toxic materials contaminated with PCBs, lead and asbestos and other hazardous waste.

Judith Enck was the EPA regional administrator during the Obama administration who first warned Hoosick Falls residents in the fall of 2015 not to drink the water in their village because it was contaminated with PFOA, a chemical used in plastics manufacturing for decades in the area.

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.

However, if served in baby bottles, a high frequency (31 per cent of 74 samples) were contaminated with faecal germs, most of them with colony counts of 10,000 or more per millilitre.

Deli meat should also be avoided since it can be contaminated with listeria which has been linked to cause miscarriages.

Fonterra, the New Zealand manufacturer of infant formula contaminated with the type of bacteria that cause botulism, says it's sorry.

It's found in soil, food, or water that has been contaminated with feces (poop) from infected humans or animals.

Your baby can also catch a diarrhea - causing infection from putting his fingers in his mouth after touching toys or other objects that have been contaminated with the stool of an infected child.

A recent Tribune investigation found that seafood highly contaminated with mercury is routinely sold in stores across the Chicago area.

Many think that bananas are highly contaminated with pesticides however this is not true.

According to the EWG, sweet potatoes are one of the 15 foods least contaminated with pesticides so purchasing organic is your choice.