Sentences with phrase «gallon of wastewater»

If widely used, this technology has the potential to eliminate millions of gallons of wastewater per year and reduce the use of a hazardous chemical by 50 percent.

According to the Jacksonville Business Journal, «About 50 people gathered outside the Florida Department of Environmental Protection district office in Downtown Jacksonville Thursday with signs and a glass of clean water to protest the construction of a pipeline that would dump millions of gallons of wastewater into the St. Johns River.

Switching to electronic billing would save 6.6 pounds of paper, 63 gallons of wastewater discharge, 4.5 gallons of gasoline and 171 pounds of greenhouse gases a year.

The agency said about 22 billion gallons of wastewater from coalbed methane drilling go into surface waters across the country each year.

The most recent disaster was in 2014 at Duke Energy's Dan River Steam Station in North Carolina where 39,000 tons of coal ash and 27 million gallons of wastewater gushed into the Dan River.

About 2 billion gallons of wastewater get injected underground every day into about 180,000 disposal wells in the U.S., mainly in Texas, California, Oklahoma and Kansas, according to the official news release.

There, under a steel shed, they began to unload thousands of gallons of wastewater for burial deep beneath the earth.

Fracking wells in the U.S. produced an estimated 280 billion gallons of wastewater in 2012.

How many cars carry 100 pounds of LP gas, 300 gallons of water and up to 200 gallons of wastewater while they're traveling down the road?

15,000 ft ² is dedicated to six ancillary buildings including process utility buildings (this includes primary and secondary facilities to process over one million gallons of wastewater per day), a guardhouse and truck weigh stations.

North Dakota has helped reduce U.S. oil imports but must grapple with millions of gallons of wastewater

We recycle approximately 80 tons of corrugated cardboard, pre-treat more than 34.6 million gallons of wastewater, and reuse more than 3.4 million pounds of unused soy annually.

Once fully operational, the plant would also reportedly discharge an estimated 342,500 gallons of wastewater per day into the Esopus Creek and an additional 2,500 gallons daily through the town's wastewater treatment plant.

The waste tank holds 5 gallons of wastewater, so it will last the average couple 4 or 5 days.

That tank holds 5.3 gallons of wastewater.

«Back in the 1990s the plant was sending 850 gallons of wastewater per minute down a pipeline into evaporation ponds,» Burba notes.

Millions of gallons of wastewater are produced every month in Oklahoma as a result of extracting oil and natural gas from the ground.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

The result: an elaborate series of 21 man - made wetlands and reservoirs that allows the county to collect 10 million gallons of wastewater a day and eventually convert it to drinking water...

The segment also includes an interesting tour of Manhattan's North River Wastewater Treatment Plant, which currently treats approximately 125 million gallons of wastewater every day.

The East Bay district uses about 4.5 million watts to treat some 22 billion gallons of wastewater per year, Figueroa said.

City Manager Nick Green has focused his efforts as the city leader to push for a new water treatment plant that would capture and recycle up to 400,000 gallons of wastewater a day.

Fracking operations in Pennsylvania alone are expected to create 19 million gallons of wastewater.