Sentences with phrase «drinking water protection»

JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy blasted back over charges by environmentalist Richard Amper that the county illegally raided the drinking water protection fund.

Environmentalists are charging county lawmakers «illegally raided» funds slated for open space preservation and drinking water protection programs to balance next year's budget without getting voter approval in the form of a mandatory referendum.

The Drinking Water Protection Program was established via a voter referendum, establishing a 1/4 percent sales in the county.

The bill, approved by the Legislature in August and endorsed by Mr. Levy, allows Suffolk to draw 37.5 percent of surpluses over $ 140 million from the Suffolk County Drinking Water Protection Program for non-preservation purposes.

Mr. Amper said a ballot referendum would be the only way to ensure that the funds are paid back, noting that a similar use of Drinking Water Protection Program money in 2011 did not require county legislation.

JENNIFER GUSTAVSON PHOTO Pine Barrens Society head Richard Amper reads from the Suffolk County Drinking Water Protection Program, which states the law «may only be amended, modified, repealed or altered by an enactment of an appropriate Charter Law subject to mandatory referendum.»

County Executive Steve Bellone signed a $ 2.7 billion spending plan last Monday, after the Legislature decided to use nearly $ 33 million from the county's sewer stabilization fund, a reserve account created when Suffolk County taxpayers first approved the Drinking Water Protection Program via referendum in 1987.

According to Legislator Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk), a portion of Drinking Water Protection Program money goes toward paying the salaries of certain county employees, positions that are also eligible for state and federal reimbursements.

Dollars are raised for the Drinking Water Protection Fund through a 1/4 percent sales tax, and several dedicated programs exist within the fund.

If he wants to subordinate drinking water protection to subsidizing agriculture, he and his friends in the county Legislature should put the matter to a vote.

Two weeks ago, freshman Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski introduced legislation to alter Suffolk's Drinking Water Protection Program to favor farmland preservation over open space.

Legislator Rob Trotta (R - Fort Salonga) said he would rather see the dollars currently in the sewer stabilization fund — the section of the Drinking Water Protection Program that would be borrowed from — used to build sewers to revitalize the county's downtown areas and update aging cesspool systems countywide.

So thank Judge Whelan and the Appeals Court that has already ruled against the theft of money from Suffolk County's Drinking Water Protection Program by discredited former County Executive Steve Levy.

The accord stems from what environmental advocates have called a «raiding» of a portion of the Drinking Water Protection Program, a quarter - percent sales tax that Suffolk voters have chosen to levy upon themselves through the year 2030.

Not once, but twice, this newspaper has wagged its finger at Suffolk County government for dipping into its Drinking Water Protection Program without just cause, using the voter - approved preservation dollars to balance its general fund books.

The Legislature unanimously passed Mr. Romaine's proposed budget amendment to use about $ 37,000 from the county's Suffolk County Drinking Water Protection Program, which are funds slated for drinking water and open space preservation, to restore Cornell's pest management program.

If the county executive would start by proposing a modest increase in county property taxes — a small portion of the average homeowners» tax bill — it might obviate the need for further borrowing and show real dedication to closing that budget gap and replenishing the Drinking Water Protection Program.

Signed on Monday, the $ 2.7 billion spending plan — which calls for no tax increase in the county's general fund — calls for using nearly $ 33 million from the county's sewer stabilization fund, a reserve account created when Suffolk County taxpayers approved the Drinking Water Protection Program via referendum in 1987.

Suffolk County has its eye on preserving 56 acres of farmland along Route 48 in Cutchogue through the county's Drinking Water Protection Program.

County legislators voted overwhelmingly last week to let Suffolk voters decide the fate of a plan that would eventually replenish the Drinking Water Protection Program, which has so far been tapped twice for money to balance the county budget.

The Drinking Water Protection Fund is filled through a sales tax of one - quarter of one percent.

After protesting the budget Suffolk County leaders approved last fall, environmental groups have now sued the county over its use of nearly $ 33 million in funds that were raised through the Drinking Water Protection Program, a self - imposed tax that Suffolk residents have voted to levy upon themselves several times since the late 1980s.

The Drinking Water Protection Program is funded by a self - imposed tax that county residents voted to levy upon themselves several times since 1987.

The agreement would ban the use of Drinking Water Protection Program funds for alternate purposes beyond 2018 without voter approval.

State Department of Health Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Public Health Brad Hutton says the legislation expands drinking water protections.

Not exact matches

Then came the most - publicized case of well - water contamination near fracking operations, in Dimock Township, Pa., just east of Bradford County; the federal Environmental Protection Agency said in 2012 that preliminary results found the water was safe to drink, though it did contain chemicals as well as explosive methane.

The Environmental Protection Authority has recommended approval of the second stage of Water Corporation's groundwater replenishment scheme, which will boost Perth's drinking water suppWater Corporation's groundwater replenishment scheme, which will boost Perth's drinking water suppwater supplies.

The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday in a press release that some Puerto Ricans have been trying to get drinking water from contaminated Superfund sites on the island.

Laws related to drinking water, elections, financial transparency, matrimonial property, land surrenders and the removal of protections for lakes and rivers were passed in spite of strong opposition by First Nations.

Full certification for drinking water, in accordance with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) standards, has -LSB-...]

In 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- using recommendations from a series of independent panels — set the limit for public drinking water at 10 parts per billion (ppb).

Waterworks subsidise conversion to organic agriculture in water protection areas as an economically efficient solution for reducing the cost of cleaning - up drinking water by minimising the nitrate and pesticide contamination of groundwater.

As a result, in some regions of Germany and France, waterworks subsidise conversion to organic agriculture in water protection areas as an economically efficient solution for reducing the cost of cleaning - up drinking water by minimising the nitrate and pesticide contamination of groundwater.

Anyhow, the cure that Islam prescribes for this is having trust in God, seeking His protection, listening to a LOT of Quran daily, praying, fasting, drinking water with Quran read on it, putting on olive oil with Quran read on it, cupping (it rids the body of toxins and prevents disease and islam stresses this as a cure for magic and for being healthy in general) and so on.

Many of the rice drinks had levels that exceed the US Environmental Protection Agencies standard for maximum arsenic contaminant level in drinking water, which is currently set at 10 parts per billion.

The latest soil, groundwater, surface water and sediment testing at Sportsman's Park in Naperville found lead concentrations in wells within Illinois Environmental Protection Agency standards for drinking water and groundwater, according to the Naperville Park District.

In 2012, Consumer Reports released a groundbreaking report which showed that many common rice products contain levels of inorganic arsenic which exceed the amount allowed by the Environmental Protection Agency in drinking water.

Urinary As concentrations in our infants were an order of magnitude lower than the median 35 µg / L of As in a Bangladeshi population exposed to high drinking water As levels (median, 80 µg / L).28, 47 This was expected given the high rate of breastfeeding in our populations29 and the lower proportion of households with tap water As concentrations above the US Environmental Protection Agency standard of 10 µg / L (12.5 % in our study).

Deeply cut the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF), whose dollars go toward protecting our drinking water, open space and recycling; Close state parks and campgrounds and slash staffing levels at our environmental enforcement agencies; and Steal from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Fund, which was set up to invest in our clean - energy economy, not serve as a piggy bank for politicians.»

New York's public water supplies need stronger protections to ensure clean drinking water and prevent contamination that could result in health problems, according to a report released today by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

Governor Cuomo is calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to establish an official drinking water standard for the unregulated contaminant 1,4 - dioxane.

The New York Democrat in September introduced an amendment to the Water Resources Development Act that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to expand water testing for unregulated drinking water contaminants to all public water suppWater Resources Development Act that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to expand water testing for unregulated drinking water contaminants to all public water suppwater testing for unregulated drinking water contaminants to all public water suppwater contaminants to all public water suppwater supplies.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to update its drinking water guidelines for chemical contaminants recently found in some upstate New York water supplies.

In 1997, New York State, New York City, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), upstate communities and environmental organizations, including Riverkeeper, joined together to sign an agreement to protect the unfiltered drinking water supply that more than nine million residents of New York City and upstate communities use daily.

It also comes after the Federal Environmental Protection Agency stepped in last month and told residents they could not drink or cook with the water, and may declare it a federal Superfund site, which would require the company responsible for the pollution to fund its cleanup.

The delay comes as POLITICO reported that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency helped bury a report that would have recommended lower limits for the class of chemicals found in the drinking water in Hoosick Falls, Newburgh and elsewhere.

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 Cuomo administration was initially slow to respond to the threat posed by PFOA in water supplies in Hoosick Falls, but has been increasingly aggressive following a widely publicized federal Environmental Protection Agency warning not to drink the water in the village in December.

But the governor's office, in turn, has pointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's shifting regulations for safe levels of PFOA in drinking water, a cancer - linked chemical found in the water there.

The EPA said the advisory is to provide Americans, including the most sensitive populations, with a margin of protection from a lifetime exposure to PFOA and PFOS from drinking water.