Sentences with phrase «gallons of wastewater per»

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Though the amount of water processed through the system isn't troublesome — 600,000 gallons per day is permitted, and they usually use around 130,000, Mayor Gregory Martin said — the village pipes are old, and whenever it rains, inflow to their wastewater system poses possible threats.

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.

These efforts have already led to the successful treatment of municipal wastewater and sewage sludge at the 100 - gallon per - day scale, enough to support a small household.

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.