Sentences with phrase «drinking water sources»

Their new WeTap app uses the world's largest crowd - sourced database of drinking water sources, to map new ones, and to report any broken fountains so they can be fixed and put into service.

Environmental groups such as the Sierra Club say fracking in New York threatens drinking water sources, including the reservoir that supplies New York City with 1.3 billion gallons (4.9 billion liters) a day.

Using these court decisions, the Bush administration then issued new policies that expanded the threat to streams, lakes and drinking water sources.

The 2010 Academy award nominated documentary «Gasland» and its 2013 sequel («Gasland 2») put a spotlight on a controversial method of gas and oil drilling that poses a threat to the environment and human health, particularly drinking water sources.

Two of those aquifers were considered potential drinking water sources.

This raises concern that toxic chemicals used during the drilling could seep into shallow drinking water sources.

«Given that spills can occur upstream from drinking water sources, long - term monitoring of downstream waters is necessary to assess impacts on water quality.»

It breaks down slowly and can move readily through soil to make its way into underground drinking water sources.

The current regulatory framework for wastewater disposal wells was designed to protect drinking water sources from contamination and does not address earthquake safety.

The researchers conclude that improved monitoring and access to water withdrawal and streamflow data are needed to ensure protection of streams as drinking water sources and valuable habitat in the future.

«Our drinking water sources must be protected and preserved for the precious resources they are, not sacrificed as a garbage dump for the oil and gas industry.»

Perchlorate has been found at that level in drinking water sources of at least 26 states and two territories, according to a study the CDC referenced in the report.

Used in metal plating, stainless steel production and other manufacturing, it has been detected in 30 % of drinking water sources in California, according to state officials.

He also wants to increase the state's Superfund program to expedite the cleanup of hazardous waste that may impact drinking water sources — an issue in the contamination crisis in Rensselaer County and elsewhere.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to send inspectors to the City of Ithaca to test drinking water sources in all Ithaca City Schools.

Those include possible exposure to chemicals used in hydrofracking, potential contamination of drinking water sources, and health impacts from naturally occurring radium that could be brought to the surface through the gas drilling process.

These chemicals are being discovered in more and more drinking water sources across the nation.

An environmental database company says toxic algae threatens public recreational and drinking water sources around New York.

Her report also includes some proposed solutions that would see a mix of state, federal and private dollars put to work to ease the discharge of sewage into potential drinking water sources.

While the Cuomo administration is pushing the U.S. EPA to test all drinking water sources for dangerous chemicals, environmental groups say the state should take action.

In light of lead concerns at two elementary schools, the Ithaca City School System has turned off drinking water sources in all of its school.

Hickey, who is credited with bringing the issue to light amid resistance from village officials, said he was shocked to hear that state health department officials were aware that the EPA had a preliminary warning of about 400 parts per trillion, but still assured Hoosick Falls residents that the water was safe even though multiple drinking water sources tested higher.

The five - page fact sheet asks and responds to 17 of the most common questions about health risks and concludes with a section recommending links for additional information, which comes in response to what is now a well - documented issue involving the pollution of local drinking water sources over a period of years by a factory manufacturing non-stick products.

He said the state was awaiting more testing before giving the all - clear on the drinking water sources.

Many processing stages result in large amounts of untreated toxic wastewater being carried into drinking water sources.

The report also states that there are 6,800 drinking water sources within a mile of a well.

Local groups and citizens held a rally over the weekend to call on the U.S. Department of Defense to halt PFOS discharges from Stewart Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York, which drain into the city's main drinking water source and the Hudson River.

The city of 30,000 in Orange County briefly declared a state of emergency in May 2016 and has since switched to a different drinking water source.

The residents write the concessions offered by the company don't go far enough to address their concerns about the viability of the plan, which they believe has the prospect of harming an already environmentally stressed lake that also serves as a drinking water source.

Newburgh was placed under a state of emergency Monday after officials learned the city's drinking water source was contaminated.

U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, Assemblyman Frank Skartados, Newburgh City Manager Michael Ciaravino and Riverkeeper are calling on the Department of Defense to stop the discharge of PFOS contaminated water from outfalls at the base to Silver Stream and other tributaries to Washington Lake, the city's main drinking water source.

«Our aggressive actions have secured an interim clean drinking water source and upgrades to the City's water infrastructure while a new carbon filtration system is constructed.

The lake is the drinking water source for nearly 50,000 people in the Auburn area.

The Hoosic River is not used as a drinking water source, according to the DEC..

«One of Governor Cuomo's key priorities is protecting and preserving public drinking water source areas,» DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said.

PFOS contamination in Newburgh's main drinking water source — Washington Lake — was discovered in May 2016.

The lake is a drinking water source for nearly 50,000 people in the Auburn area.

Seggos and Hutton were at the press conference with Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who announced legislative action he is taking to ensure the Department of Defense pays for the remediation of PFOS contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base and halts PFOS - laden discharges from the base into area water bodies, including the city's main drinking water source, Washington Lake.

In Sahara Africa, only 45 percent people in rural areas have access to improved drinking water source (UNICEF, 2005), thus 55 percent is exposed to unsafe drinking water which expose them to severe diseases.

They've been waiting over 500 days for that drinking water source.»

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today called upon the New York State Canal Corp. to take pro-active steps to reduce the amount of water flowing out of Hinckley Reservoir due to the extremely low water level in the reservoir, which serves as the major drinking water source for the Utica region and also supplies water to the Erie Canal.

Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, calling for an immediate investigation into the possible cause of PFOS contamination in Newburgh's main drinking water source — outfalls into retention ponds at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

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

Residents in the Village of Skaneateles and the other municipalities which use this drinking water source can continue to drink the water.

They include Charles Carr, a homeowner whose private well had a PFOA level of 390 parts per trillion when it was tested last year, far above the advisory level of 70 ppt for a drinking water source established recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

It was not in danger of ever reaching a drinking water source, according to Jim Noggle, branch chief in the agency's region I division of reactor safety.

A month later, the EPA wrote a letter to Hoosick Falls Mayor David Borge recommending «an alternate drinking water source» for all residents.

After adjustment for factors likely to affect re-infection such as latrine use and drinking water source, 14 % of the children in the handwashing with soap groups (handwashing alone and handwashing plus nail clipping) were re-infected with parasites compared to 29 % of the children in the no handwashing groups (nail clipping only or neither intervention).

The drinking water source is a spring that emerges from the coal dump.

In Flint, the lead pipes began leaching toxins into the water after the state of Michigan decided to switch the financially ailing city's drinking water source, and failed to properly treat the water with orthophosphates.