Sentences with phrase «extent of the contamination»

The dairy firm's CEO, Emmanuel Besnier, confirmed the extent of the contamination risk to French media.

«Through the ongoing work of Governor Cuomo's Water Quality Rapid Response Team, the state's top priority has been to reduce residents» exposure to PFOS, while investigating the extent of the contamination and holding those responsible accountable,» DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said in a press release put out by the administration shortly after noon.

«DEC has already listed the area as a state superfund site and for over 8 months have been investigating the extent of the contamination and holding the polluters accountable to advance the necessary clean up, as we continue to do with other contaminated sites in Petersburgh, NY and Newburgh, NY.

«As our investigation continues and we learn more about the extent of the contamination, we will take aggressive actions to hold the responsible party accountable for all costs associated with full remediation of all impacted areas.»

«This emergency regulation will allow the DEC to tap into its superfund authority both to investigate the extent of the contamination of PFOA in Hoosick Falls and more importantly to begin remediation,» Seggos said.

In addition to the water filtration installation, the DOH and DEC, along with country officials, will continue to conduct tests to determine the extent of the contamination in the town.

«DEC, DOH and the County will continue to work quickly to conduct further tests to determine the extent of contamination in the Town, and develop necessary actions to address the contamination.»

He pressed Zucker to acknowledge that the state could have acted independently of the EPA when it learned of the extent of the contamination in Hoosick Falls.

Further investigation is expected to determine the extent of the contamination, what elements are impacted and how widespread the contamination may be.

Superfund authority allows the state to investigate the extent of any contamination, and to begin remediation immediately.

«That is why I am calling on the federal EPA to step up to the plate and get all hands on deck to help the community and state regulators to test this water, identify the source and extent of the contamination, and move forward with ways to remediate any contamination.»

Mr. Seggos said his agency, working with the State Health Department, would investigate the extent of the contamination, which has been linked to the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant, located on the edge of the Hoosick River, not far from the municipal wells that provide the village with its drinking water.

Last year — after warning residents not to drink or cook with the water and to ventilate their homes when they showered — the EPA drilled the monitoring wells to get a more precise picture of the extent of the contamination.

The report urges the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine the extent of contamination with a full - scale testing program, among other recommendations.

But even in places were the water is rapidly recharged, using it a lot can move water around in ways that affect the location and extent of contamination,» said co-author Ben Bostick, a geochemist at Lamont, who with co-author Alexander van Geen of Lamont has been working for over a decade with communities in Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh to avoid arsenic contamination and locate safer water sources.

The extent of the contamination of land in Britain is undoubtedly huge («Sitting on a time bomb», New Scientist, 15 August 1992).

But even in places were the water is rapidly recharged, using it a lot can move water around in ways that affect the location and extent of contamination,» said coauthor Ben Bostick, a geochemist at Lamont, who with coauthor Alexander van Geen of Lamont has been working for over a decade with communities in Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh to avoid arsenic contamination and locate safer water sources.

«Review of Data Which Indicates the Extent of Contamination to the North of the UNC Tailings Disposal Area in Pipeline Canyon,» Memo from Richard Raymondi and Ron Conrad, Ground - water, through Maxine Goad, Program Manager, to Tony Drypolcher, Acting Bureau Chief, Ground Water Quality & Hazardous Waste Bureau, NM EID, October 24, 1983.

As described above, 10 % of amplified fragments were cloned and sequenced to determine the extent of contamination by exogenous DNA.

EPA, which recently realized the extent of that contamination is more far - reaching, encountered the carcinogenic volatile organic compound benzene when workers started that cleanup last July.

In 2000, a report was released by the Ministry of the Environment that revealed the extent of the contamination.