Sentences with phrase «detects them in water»

Officials at Fort Drum say they're shutting down two of the Army post's wells after low levels of perfluorinated chemicals were detected in the water.

The designation came 17 months after a resident first reported that PFOA, a toxic chemical, was detected in water samples in the village's well system at levels exceeding those recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The chemical PFOA has been detected in water samples taken from the Mohawk River near the Colonie landfill.

Last November, we took you to the small and rural village of Hoosick Falls, which was grappling with a report of contaminated water after elevated levels of the chemical perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA was detected in the water supply.

Booms were deployed in the nearby Kanawha River to collect any leaking oil but none was detected in water tests carried out by local water provider West Virginia American Water.

But the pits could not be blamed for contamination detected in the water monitoring wells 1,000 feet underground.

And this can be detected in the water in which a captive fish is living.

The chemical symbols for heavy metals appear when a new low - cost, tape - based sensor detects them in water or powder.

Of the three tap water samples analyzed, estradiol and androsterone were detected in tap water in laboratories in France and Spain, while corticosterone was detected in the water sample from the Chinese laboratory.

The herbicide atrazine, marketed as Triazine, is frequently detected in water.

Not exact matches

FREDsense Technologies, a Calgary, Alberta - based outfit, has built sensors that detect chemicals in drinking water.

Knightscope recently made headlines when one of its security bots was found drowned in a shopping mall pond — slippery surfaces had prevented the K5 from detecting stairs leading to the recessed water.

Using the company's sensors and software, an American Leak technician could detect a leak in less than an hour, instead of having to spend days measuring water levels with a bucket.

Helping manage water infrastructure, Gregory Quist, CEO of SmartCover Systems explains to Anthony Lacavera how the company's sensors act as an EKG for sewers to identify and detect faults in wastewater delivery.

We have been marinating in corruption until we can hardly detect its growth, like Malcolm Muggeridge's frog killed in a pot of gradually heated water.

He said that they came up with more and more ingenious solutions, like filling the classroom with water and detecting where there was no water (in the shape of the leprechaun).

Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.

Astronomers expected water vapor to be present even in the early, distant universe, but had not detected it this far away before.

Most plastics are also very hard but show densities similar to water, making them difficult to detect in products with densities similar to water.

A total of 367 GL of Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat throughout the River Murray for improving the condition, movement and recruitment of native fish — both silver (critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) and golden perch were detected spawning in the Mid Murray in response to flow variability; improve riparian and wetland vegetation condition; and contribute to the managed export of salt from the River Murray system.

The spectrum ranges from random tests in the water bath, to visual inline inspections, through to gas - based technologies that detect leaky packing.

The winning team detecting the blood - scent of championship in the water?

I can install leak sensors to let me know if water is detected in the basement.

The Chicago Park District banned swimming at a South Side beach Thursday after high levels of bacteria were detected in lake water there.

SOUTH SIDE — The Chicago Park District banned swimming at a South Side beach Thursday after high levels of bacteria were detected in lake water there.

In a hospital water birth, there is a lot of monitoring, AND a lot of staff around, so getting the mother out quickly, as soon as there is a problem detected or suspected, is probably less of an issue than at home.

«If testing were required in all of these cases, PFOA in the Village of Hoosick Falls water system would have been detected much earlier.

The Suffolk County fire academy in Yaphank, used for training volunteer firefighters, is now on the state's Superfund list after water samples from monitoring wells detected contaminants that exceed federal health advisories.

«At a point in time, the managers on - board detected that it was leaking and that water was entering the ferry so they quickly had to transfer all the passengers on - board onto another boat to take them offshore safely.

Algae amounts detected by the Cayuga County Health Department in the Auburn water supply last year were «below the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency health advisory level for short - term exposure,» per Syracuse.com.

PFOS was first detected in Newburgh's water and reported to the EPA in 2014 when samples ranged between 140 and 170 parts per trillion.

Kinisky said Saint - Gobain has consistently taken responsibility to help find and fund alternate water supplies, or provide filtering systems, in areas where PFOA and other perflourinated chemicals have been detected in groundwater near its current and former manufacturing plants.

Owasco Lake water quality issues have existed for years, but there was heightened concern last fall when cyanotoxins from blue - green algae blooms were detected in Auburn and Owasco's drinking water supply.

The funding wasn't allocated until last fall — after the blue - green algae toxins were detected in drinking water supplies.

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.

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.

Officials said the typical level of the toxic chemical found in the blood samples of more than 2,000 Rensselaer County residents is about 11 times higher than the national average, but well below levels detected in other areas of the nation where the contaminant has also polluted public water supplies.

Perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, has been detected in the municipal water system as well as private wells in and around Hoosick Falls.

Last summer, cyanotoxins produced by blue - green algae blooms in Owasco Lake were detected in drinking water for the first time in New York State.

While, up to this point, the examination of the water pollution has centered on the Hoosick Falls village's municipal well system, it was revealed by state health officials that PFOA has also been detected in private wells on the outskirts of the village in the town of Hoosick Falls.

Then there's the thorny issue of water quality and the suspected carcinogen PFOA, which has been detected in Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh.

PFOA was detected in drinking water in the Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh areas at levels above 500 ppt.

As NY1 reported last month, elevated levels of a hazardous chemical were detected in the village's water supply, and residents felt that the state was slow to respond.

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OCWA spokesman Jeff Brown said the agency has never detected the toxins in its drinking water.

The Niagara Falls Water Board said it detected a water main break on the Goodyear chemical plant property in the City of Niagara Falls late Thursday night, which resulted in a loss of system pressure affecting local residential and commercial water customers in the service Water Board said it detected a water main break on the Goodyear chemical plant property in the City of Niagara Falls late Thursday night, which resulted in a loss of system pressure affecting local residential and commercial water customers in the service water main break on the Goodyear chemical plant property in the City of Niagara Falls late Thursday night, which resulted in a loss of system pressure affecting local residential and commercial water customers in the service water customers in the service area.

The only mammal with electroreception, it uses sensors in its bill to detect electrical impulses sent out by prey in murky water.

BACTERIA - HUNTING VIRUSES Viruses (one illustrated, center) can be engineered to carry magnetic nanoparticles and modified DNA, transforming them into nanobots that detect bacteria in water or food.

That could make it harder for us to detect whether certain molecules in the water are hints of the presence of living organisms, or just the by - products of geological processes.

Fungal species were detected in almost 60 % of the real bath toys and in all the dirty - water control toys.