Sentences with phrase «filtration plant»

A construction firm working on the delayed and over-budget Croton Water Filtration Plant in Van Cortlandt Park lied about hiring minority subcontractors.

In a research collaboration with Sydney Water, the team has demonstrated the success of the approach in laboratory tests on filtered water from the Nepean Water Filtration Plant in western Sydney, and is working to scale up the new technology.

Newburgh Water Filtration Plant at 493 Little Britain Road, Newburgh.

And here's an opinion piece by Assemblymen Jeffrey Dinowitz on the Croton Filtration plant fiasco.

The operation of membrane filtration plants mostly depends on the pressure generated by the pumps used.

Ulster County Legislator Chris Allen, who represents the town and village of Saugerties, said the city had the opportunity to approach the problem properly with filtration plants, but squandered it.

Millions of gallons of groundwater and stormwater pollutants associated with the Croton water filtration plant project in Van Cortlandt Park are being inappropriately discharged into parkland, says Karen Argenti on Waterblogged.

$ 1.2 million for a UV disinfectant project - a requirement for water treatment that allows the city to avoid investing in a multi-million dollar filtration plant.

NOM contaminants affect the performance of direct filtration plants by reducing their capacity after a heavy rain.

The project involved the construction of an additional spray - drying tower, associated processing lines and a new filtration plant.

Add today's filtration plant news and the WSJ story and video to the list.

What ARE unmitigated disasters are projects like the Gateway and Yankee Stadium parking facilities, and of course the scandalous filtration plant.

Assemblyman Pete Lopez says the city of New York has been sidestepping what is known as the «surface water treatment rule» under the Clean Water Act - avoiding the need put a water filtration plant online - which Lopez estimates would cost 4 billion dollars to build.

Water removed from 80 meters below the surface of Lake Ontario is pumped through three pipes to the Toronto Island Filtration Plant and treated to meet drinking water standards.

There is a water filtration plant too.

This case concerned the coming together of unlikely partners, the affluent communities of southern Westchester County and the pronouncedly less privileged residents of the Northwest Bronx, in a failed attempt to prevent the city's plan, currently well underway, to build the country's largest water filtration plant beneath Van Cortlandt Park in order to treat the water flowing into the city from the Croton portion of its system of reservoirs.

In my first four years at The Times, I wrote dozens of stories about efforts to preserve the quality of New York City's water supply — 19 reservoirs surrounded by 2,000 square miles of rapidly developing exurbs — without having to build a giant filtration plant.

New York City has great quality tap water because the city invested in water protection by purchasing land around its Catskills reservoirs to ensure that polluted runoff from roads and lawns doesn't enter the water supply.The city's $ 600 million investment in Catskills land protection and restoration did the job of $ 6 billion in capital costs to construct a water filtration plant as well as $ 200 - 300 million in annual operation and maintenance costs.

The researchers, in collaboration with Sydney Water, have demonstrated the success of the new approach in lab tests on filtered water from the Nepean Water Filtration Plant in western Sydney

Driven by our strong focus on sustainability, protection of the environment, and reuse of natural resources, we have developed a number of innovative membrane - based solutions, which reduce the environmental footprint of membrane filtration plants.

The plan was part of the ongoing Croton Water Filtration Plant project.

«This is an issue that covers both the Clean Water Act and the lower Esopus issues, where the DEC has the main purview, plus the Filtration Avoidance Determination,» which permits New York City to maintain its water system without having to build a multibillion dollar filtration plant.

These natural organic matter contaminants can affect the performance of direct filtration plants, reducing their capacity after heavy rain.

In 2004, after serving as Bloomberg's first commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection, where he succeeded in pushing through the Croton Filtration Plant, a controversial federally mandated facility that the administration sited under a popular Bronx park, he left to join American Stevedoring, a port operator, as its CEO.

Mr. Diaz discussed a vision for his borough presidency, job creation, the water filtration plant in Van Cortlandt Park, housing, the selection of community board members, the BOEDC and economic development, the Kingsbridge Armory, and more.

Engineering contractor Sedgman has won a bid to build a filtration plant at Alcoa of Australia's Kwinana alumina refinery, under a deal worth $ 59.8 million.

The company says work on the refinery, located in the Saguenay region of the province, will include construction of a filtration plant and optimization at a site to manage bauxite residue.

Serving a population of about 37,000, Bathurst's water filtration plant was originally constructed in 1972.

The supernatant recycling system installed at Bathurst Council's water filtration plant, left, is just one example of CST Wastewater's technology that will be showcased at Food Tech.

A major NSW regional council has introduced a supernatant recycling system into the filtration plant -LSB-...]

A major NSW regional council has introduced a supernatant recycling system into the filtration plant in the town water supply, helping to conserve potable water and providing substantial water savings over the long term.

«We ca n`t accept that, «said John B. Corey, city water commissioner, of the 391 - boat marina that would connect with the filtration plant.

A new harbor at Navy Pier North could add 170 spots, though it would require high security because it is so close to a water - filtration plant.

One of them would be between the city «s central water filtration plant and city - owned Navy Pier; the other a half mile south of the pier — actually an extension of Monroe Street Harbor northward to the mouth of the Chicago River.

Under the agreement, the fair would pay to build one marina in the sheltered waters between Navy Pier and the city «s central water filtration plant to the north and another just south of the Chicago River mouth at what would be an extension of the Monroe Street Harbor.

Bronx Assemblyman Ruben Diaz, Jr., a candidate for Bronx borough president in 2009, told talk show host Gary Axelbank on Monday night that he and his colleagues were «misled» by the city when they voted to allow the city to dig a giant hole in Van Cortlandt Park for a water filtration plant.

The show is rebroadcast every night this week at 9 p.m. Axelbank, who has been vocal in his opposition to the water filtration plant, says Diaz will be asked about his current position on the plant.

It won't be news to devoted Norwood News readers, but Gotham Gazette has this useful and extensive summary of the controversies surrounding the construction of the filtration plant.

Critics of the Croton Water Filtration Plant being built in Van Cortlandt Park say they're not surprised by allegations of corruption.

What have they said about the scandal - plagued water filtration plant that ripped a stadium - sized hole in a local park, costing water rate payers $ 2 billion more than the original billion - dollar price tag?

Overruns experienced at the filtration plant in the Bronx have increased the projected costs by three times.

There is no filtration plant, and because of that, Miner says the water is constantly tested.

In that instance there's a GE plant, I think it was a water filtration plant, that sought a reassessment of the property value of the plant and won it, dramatically reducing the property value.

Brand says once the filtration plant is put online, it will start without filtering water from Silver Stream.

A Hoosick Falls water department truck is parked at the filtration plant on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. (Will Waldron / Times Union)

During my tenure as one of the Peru Town Councilmen, we have accomplished many productive projects such as approving the building of the new water filtration plant to improve our drinking water, keeping our land taxes down under the tax cap for the past several years, approved the overdue improvements needed to our aging and unsafe walkway to our town hall, and approving the completion of our new town walking path for our residents to enjoy.»