Sentences with phrase «contaminating local water»

Environmentalists and residents of Parker County, Texas, were dismayed last year when the EPA dropped an investigation into complaints that fracking by Range Resources was contaminating local water supplies with methane.

Spills from oil and gas operations can contaminate local water and soil with high levels of toxic chemicals, salts and radioactivity, but in many cases there is insufficient information to determine how long ago the spill occurred and identify its source.

Despite concerns that fracking could seriously deplete or contaminate local water supplies, in 2010 Pennsylvania issued more than 3,300 natural gas permits in the Marcellus Shale.

These substances eventually find their way into the soil where they can contaminate the local water supplies.

Not exact matches

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

This contaminated 100,000 square metres of fresh water, killing 1,240 tonnes of fish and causing enormous health problems for the locals.

Meanwhile, Nixon, an actress, activist and Cuomo's Democratic primary opponent, paid a visit to Hoosick Falls, where she ripped into the governor's handling of the local contaminated water crisis.

«It would not have changed the fact that our water is contaminated, but I think it would have affected the way our local government addressed the issues as far as our communication with our residents,» Surdam said.

The state's action came about 16 months after a village resident, Michael Hickey, alerted local government officials that PFOA had contaminated the public water supply.

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.

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.»

Mayor David Borge said the flushing would «move any residual PFOA - contaminated water in the system to the local sanitary sewer system.»

Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan appeared at Bennington College to tell local residents with contaminated wells that clean water is a human right.

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 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.

Also on hand were residents from Dimock, Pa., a community where drilling operations have been blamed for contaminating water wells and having other deleterious effects on the environment — claims that local drillers either deny or claim are overblown.

And the exhibit plays to local concerns over contaminated water supplies, fracking - induced earthquakes, methane leaks, noise, dust and dirt.

If leaks from pipelines are not detected early enough, the resulting leaked oil could contaminate the local environment and water sources.

A hypothetical example of sharing: A local water supply is contaminated with a pathogenic E. coli strain that is not antibiotic - resistant.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

PFOA entered the local water table near the DuPont plant and contaminated the potable water supply used by more than 100,000 people.

However, these advisories are not legally enforceable and therefore local water districts don't have to disclose to their customers if their water is contaminated with PFOA.

The local water company's own water tests also showed 25 percent of all samples collected at various homes in their coverage area were contaminated with lead at levels starting at 15 ppb, if not more.

When pesticides and herbicides are used on fields, the runoff contaminates the soil and local water with arsenic.

Indeed, a careful reading of the work the authors cite reveals that three of 103 such infections were actually the result of contaminated water linked to cougars in the area of a local reservoir.

Pets exposed to potentially contaminated water such as streams or ponds, go walking on hiking trails, or swim in our local rivers and lakes are at risk for leptospirosis.

It sucks up huge quantities of water from local rivers, turns it into toxic waste and dumps the contaminated water into tailing ponds that now cover nearly 70 square miles.»

If young and fresh H5N1 contaminated water from low local wells, cisterns, tanks, rain barrels or rice fields is used for water supply the water temperature for infection may be higher (at 24 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 2 days) as in temperate climates (for «older» water from central water supplies cold water is decisive to virulence of viruses: at 7 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 14 days).

Since then, the local media has faced strong intimidation from Exxon, local residents have become sick from the toxic fumes, a severe thunderstorm threatened cleanup efforts, leading officials to release contaminated water into Lake Conway and the Attorney General of Arkansas has launched an investigation, as a number of lawsuits have been filed on behalf of residents.

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

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?

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.

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

In the 1990s, leaks from the Braidwood nuclear station in Illinois contaminated local wells, and owner Exelon Corp. had to provide a new municipal water system.

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.

Check with local authorities before using any water for cooking or cleaning as it may be contaminated.

Those drain directly to local waterways and just one gallon of motor oil can contaminate a million gallons of water.