Sentences with phrase «gallons of wastewater in»

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Despite the billboards Georgia - Pacific has put up along interstate highways proclaiming the company's love for the St. Johns River, you don't pipe 40 million gallons of polluted wastewater into the middle of the St. Johns daily, which is exactly what the Georgia - Pacific paper mill in Palatka is doing.»

Some of the new filtration technology makes it possible to recover 90 % of previously lost wastewater in dairy processing plants with potential savings of up to 1.6 m gallons of water and 820,000 gallons of milk each year, according to Tetra Pak.

In one U.S. town, one such company is responsible for discharging approximately 50 million gallons / day of wastewater into a nearby river.

The surcharge — $ 1 per 1,000 gallons of water used — is part of Bellone's plan to address the nitrogen problem in Suffolk's waterways through tackling the sources of the pollutant, mainly wastewater from the 360,000 home septic and cesspool systems in the county.

«In the western region of New York, despite the monumental efforts of wastewater operators, our region experienced sewer overflows which has caused thousands of gallons of raw sewage to flow into local waterways.

The treatment system, which began operation in January, purifies wastewater that would otherwise be dumped into the Pacific, creating 70 million gallons a day of clean water.

University of South Florida researchers investigating the aftermath of a September, 2014 sewer line break in St. Petersburg, Florida, have found dangerous antibiotic - resistant bacteria in the untreated wastewater that gushed into neighborhoods and into Boca Ciega Bay at a rate of 250 to 500 gallons per minute.

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.

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.

This rapid proliferation of unconventional oil and gas recovery has also resulted in millions of gallons of highly brackish wastewater, which comes up with the retrieved oil and gas.

More than 1,400 wastewater treatment plants in the United States and Canada discharge 4.8 billion gallons of treated effluent into the Great Lakes basin every day, according to the study.

In January, for example, a leaking pipeline spewed more than 11 million liters (2.9 million gallons) of fracking wastewater.

For years, large chemical companies had been using Toms River as their private dumping ground, burying tens of thousands of leaky drums in open pits and discharging billions of gallons of acid - laced wastewater into the town's namesake river.

Planters in the parking lot are part of a wastewater treatment system that cleans and reuses up to 10,000 gallons of water a day.

According to the article, this means that «for each modern gas well drilled in the Marcellus and places like it, more than 3 million gallons of chemically tainted wastewater could be left in the ground forever.

It identifies 28 wastewater treatment sites in California that could be inundated by seawater under current projections, including one of the world's largest facilities, Hyperion, which treats up to 450 million gallons per day for the City of Los Angeles.

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