Sentences with phrase «found in the water samples»

Mayor John Tkaczyk said a second day of testing showed the absence of Coliform, the bacteria that was found in water samples late last week, prompting the boil water notice and since then, city workers have been treating the water aggressively to clear up the system.

Not exact matches

Susan Lorenz studied soil, sediment, ground and surface water samples, and said that although she found lead present in surface soils, it had not migrated to deeper soils or ground water.

The swimming bans, which will be in effect at least through Saturday morning, were enacted Friday after Lake Michigan water samples taken Thursday morning were tested and found to contain high levels of E. coli bacteria, which can indicate the presence of other harmful bacteria.

Park District officials closed the range last month and ordered additional testing after IEPA tests found lead in two water monitoring samples.

They can be found in almost every area of the aquarium: preparing food for our animals, sharing stories with our guests, testing water samples, and even diving.

A new peer - reviewed study discredits findings of controversial research claiming that higher concentrations of dissolved methane in domestic water wells can be associated with proximity to nearby gas - producing wells in northeastern Pennsylvania — and it does so using a much larger sampling size and pre-drill baselines.

Experts agree that lead found in home water samples usually comes from the home plumbing system, not the source of the water.

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.

The study, which collected samples from 66 water wells, found naturally occurring methane levels in 15 percent of the wells were high enough to require mitigation.

A report issued in April by the New York Attorney General's office found that microbeads were present in 74 percent of water samples taken from 34 municipal and private treatment plants across the state.

In the Capital Region, concerns about PFOA found in water supplies in Rensselaer County erupted in 2014 when Michael Hickey, a former village trustee whose father died of cancer, sent samples from the Hoosick Falls water system to a Canadian lab that reported levels of PFOA that the EPA had advised were not safe for human consumptioIn the Capital Region, concerns about PFOA found in water supplies in Rensselaer County erupted in 2014 when Michael Hickey, a former village trustee whose father died of cancer, sent samples from the Hoosick Falls water system to a Canadian lab that reported levels of PFOA that the EPA had advised were not safe for human consumptioin water supplies in Rensselaer County erupted in 2014 when Michael Hickey, a former village trustee whose father died of cancer, sent samples from the Hoosick Falls water system to a Canadian lab that reported levels of PFOA that the EPA had advised were not safe for human consumptioin Rensselaer County erupted in 2014 when Michael Hickey, a former village trustee whose father died of cancer, sent samples from the Hoosick Falls water system to a Canadian lab that reported levels of PFOA that the EPA had advised were not safe for human consumptioin 2014 when Michael Hickey, a former village trustee whose father died of cancer, sent samples from the Hoosick Falls water system to a Canadian lab that reported levels of PFOA that the EPA had advised were not safe for human consumption.

The findings are consistent with water samples the EPA has collected from at least 42 homes in the area since 2008, when ProPublica began reporting on foul water and health concerns in Pavillion and the agency started investigating reports of contamination there.

They found that the isotopic signatures of sulfur (in sulfate), carbon (in dissolved inorganic carbon) and strontium from water samples collected from tributaries adjacent to mountaintop mining sites are distinguishable from those collected from unaffected upstream waters.

From testing the water in just a minority of homes the Mississippi Department of Health found that samples had high lead content — above the 0.015 per liter level established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

A peak microplastics concentration was measured at Rees on the Nederhijn, where 3.9 million plastic items per square kilometer (or 21,839 particles per 1000 cubic meters) were found in a single water sample.

Now a new study that sampled water from 60 such wells has found evidence for natural gas — contamination in those within a kilometer of a new natural gas well.

They reported this finding in July after analyzing 50 - plus years of data on light penetration of the ocean surface and plankton abundance in water samples.

To find out whether they had evolved to cope, Andres Moreno at Stanford University in California and colleagues looked at the variation of a gene known to be involved in water retention in the kidney, called FOXI1, in DNA samples from 20 Europeans, 20 east Asians and 20 Yoruba.

«Almost every bit of water we sampled was below 3.5,» says Tilbrook, who presented his findings at Greenhouse 2011 in Cairns this week.

In Pavillion, Wyo., where residents have complained of nerve damage and loss of sense of taste and smell, EPA superfund investigators found benzene and other hydrocarbons in well water samples, as well as methane gas, metals, and an unusual chemical variant of a compound used in hydraulic fracturinIn Pavillion, Wyo., where residents have complained of nerve damage and loss of sense of taste and smell, EPA superfund investigators found benzene and other hydrocarbons in well water samples, as well as methane gas, metals, and an unusual chemical variant of a compound used in hydraulic fracturinin well water samples, as well as methane gas, metals, and an unusual chemical variant of a compound used in hydraulic fracturinin hydraulic fracturing.

Beginning in 2008, the EPA took water samples from residents» drinking water wells, finding hydrocarbons and traces of contaminants that seemed like they could be related to fracking.

When Yardley analyzed a sample of the injected water, he found it rich in silica.

BPA has been found in drinking water, in 41.2 percent of 139 streams sampled in 30 states, even in house dust.

We saw city officials dismissing public concerns, knew that the city was not treating the river water to prevent corrosion and found high lead levels in samples from the Walters» home.

Traces of 18 unregulated contaminants were found in the water from one - third of utilities in sampling across the U.S. by federal scientists.

He may find clues in the samples of air, water and blood from the crew that were «exported» from Biosphere 2 before the oxygen was turned on last week.

The team found the same regeneration process occurring in water samples taken from the Iowa River, and from a test pond seeded with manure from cattle that had been treated with trenbolone acetate.

To find the origin of the Moon's water, Saal and his colleagues looked at melt inclusions found in samples brought back from the Apollo missions.

«Our findings of adverse impact in a U.S. sample, particularly in performance - related functioning, gives confidence to the generalizability of findings from our work in Bangladesh, where we also observed a steep drop in intelligence scores in the very low range of water arsenic concentrations,» said Dr. Graziano, who is also professor of Pharmacology at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons.

In a 2012 study of 33 fungicides used on potatoes, Kuivila's lab found that 75 percent of surface waters tested and 58 percent of ground water samples were contaminated with traces of at least one fungicide.

«The combination of water and halogens found in the volcanic glasses enables us to preclude local seawater contamination and conclusively prove the water in the samples was derived from the mantle,» Dr Kendrick said.

Buesseler says that during his own sampling survey in waters 30 to 600 kilometres from Fukushima in June 2011, three months after the meltdown, the highest levels he found were 3 Bq of caesium - 137 per litre of seawater.

ChemCam tested more than 100 targets in a location named Rocknest and found that the dust contained consistent amounts of water regardless of the sampling area.

In an expedition to the same region four years later, she had the chance to compare the measurements taken at different times, and found significantly less methane in the water sampleIn an expedition to the same region four years later, she had the chance to compare the measurements taken at different times, and found significantly less methane in the water samplein the water samples.

The researchers found that the fluid consistently created small but effective cracks in the samples that allowed water to flow through.

Townsend - Small says water samples finding natural gas - derived methane in wells near Pennsylvania fracking sites were taken only after fracking had occurred, so methane levels in those wells were not documented prior to or during fracking in Pennsylvania.

A study examining more than 50 tap water samples found water had very few bacteria in buildings without cisterns but there was noticeable contamination in buildings where storage tanks were present or plumbing had been altered or otherwise disrupted.

So he contacted Gaetan Borgonie, a nematologist at Ghent University in Belgium, who collected and filtered tens of thousands of liters of water samples from five mines in the area to find the rare creatures, which belong to the worm group called nematodes.

The study found lead in 58 percent of the samples, but only 5 percent — all from New York — exceeded drinking water standards.

He found that more than one percent of the weight of the ringwoodite's crystal structure can consist of water — roughly the same amount of water as was found in the sample reported in the Nature paper.

In late 2008, samples of Chico's municipal drinking water were found to contain radium, a radioactive derivative of uranium and a common attribute of drilling waste.

Researchers collected water samples from area lakes, ponds and streams and used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology to amplify — or copy — the entire mitochondrial genomes from the eDNA found in those environments.

Of the locations sampled in the study, resistance genes that are most likely to be mobile and able to jump from one bacterial strain to another were found in the highest numbers in the chicken coops of villagers in El Salvador and in the outgoing «gray» water from the sewage treatment plant outside Lima.

In each case, the EPA found evidence of contamination but declined to pursue further water sampling or disciplinary action against the energy companies.

As fate would have it, soon after our system was installed, I found an article in The Washington Post about hexavalent chromium, or chromium 6, showing up in water samples from 35 U.S. cities.

In a study conducted at the University of Minnesota, 83 % of tap water samples tested from around the globe were found to be contaminated with plastic particles.

But perhaps even worse than some of the above contaminants are the disinfection byproducts, such as trihalomethanes, which the Environmental Working Group also found in samples of bottled water.

The lesson plans allow students to identify microinvertebrates in their water sample, share their findings on the web site, and analyze the data.

Water samples taken last fall at La Mirada Elementary School in San Ysidro found alarming levels of lead coming from eight drinking fountains.

Comparing the geochemical composition of the samples, they found traces of Marcellus salts and gases in well water from Lock Haven, Alluvium and Catskill aquifers.