Sentences with phrase «in millions of gallons of water»

But it's hard to imagine that, after being diluted in millions of gallons of water, enough of the pesticide could have drifted or flowed into the Sound to kill the lobsters.

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The city of Racine filed a request with the DNR in January to withdraw 7 million gallons of water daily from the lake to serve the plant.

-- Chris Spain, president and CEO of smart water management provider HydroPoint, which saved customers more than 15 billion gallons of water and $ 137 million in expenses in 2015.

Oscar Mayer has long been the largest customer of the Madison Water Utility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux Water Utility, typically using 400 million to 450 million gallons of water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux water a year and providing the water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux water utility with more than $ 1 million a year in revenue, or 2.8 percent of its total annual revenue, spokeswoman Amy Barrilleaux said.

High - value crops such as vegetables, citrus fruits, grapes and apricots can by grown in the Middle East if 5,000 to 8,000 cubic meters of water (about 1.7 million gallons) per hectare (2.47 acres) are provided each year.

My 100,000 - square - foot roof produces two million gallons of rainwater per year and as the first solar array farm in the world, I will have no electric, water or gas bill.»

In the last year, we reduced our water use by literally millions of gallons in our Florida facility alone.&raquIn the last year, we reduced our water use by literally millions of gallons in our Florida facility alone.&raquin our Florida facility alone.»

Halter Ranch conserves water, resulting in over a 50 % reduction in irrigation; captures rain and winery water bringing over two million gallons back to irrigation ponds; and farms 281 acres of vines without removing oak trees or displacing existing wildlife and plant life.

They set a goal to reduce plant water usage by 1 million gallons, and by installing a reverse osmosis system, they achieved a savings of 1,264,323 gallons in 2014 and expect to achieve similar savings in subsequent years.

It requires around 400 gallons of water to create one cotton t - shirt and, when 10.5 million tonnes of clothing are sent to landfill each year in the US, doing your bit to ensure the clothing you buy lasts as long as possible is something small but significant you can do for the environment.

The update, which is the biggest renovation the 18 - hole golf course has seen in the last 35 to 40 years, is going to improve the club's turf and expand its water detention capacity by about 5 million of gallons of water, according to officials.

In 2015, the former CEO of Nestle Tim Brown admitted that Nestle wastes 30 % of the 700 million gallons of water per year Nestle takes out of California groundwater — then declared attempts by Nestle to reduce that water waste by 12 %.

The earthen dam that holds some 130 million gallons of water was deemed «high hazard» in a 2016 report.

«When you go to Kpong in Tema, President Mahama has put in place equipment that is pumping 40 million gallons of water a day [uncharacteristic] of in the history of the nation,» he told teeming supporters of the NDC at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium during the party's National Campaign Launch Sunday.

This project was completed and supplies 40 million gallons of water per day to some 700,000 inhabitants in communities such as Adenta, Madina, Kwabenya, Ashongman, North Legon, East Legon and West Legon, Ashaley Botwe, Haatso, Boi, Asofaa, Dome, University of Ghana, Valley View University, University of Professional Studies - Accra, Legon - Presec, Bawaleshie, Adjirigano and Pantang.

The plant seeks permission to purchase up to 1.75 million gallons of water each day from the City of Kingston's Cooper Lake reservoir, as well as truck in spring water from other local sources.

At the height of the flooding, the BAE Systems plant was inundated with 16 million gallons of water, causing potentially tens of millions of dollars in damage.

They include water loss (a section of the Delaware Aqueduct to New York City slated for replacement is losing some 20 million gallons a day), contamination (not just chemical infiltration such as what's happened in Newburgh, but also lead in old pipes, particular of concern in schools), natural disasters, vandalism and even cyber-attacks.

In his capacity as LEPS Committee chair, Hayes has taken a special interest in such issues as the continuing 35 - million - gallon - a-day leakage of the New York City Water Supply's West Branch Tunnel in the Town of Wawarsing, where he initiated the implementation of an Emergency Response Plan for a potential catastrophic failure of the TunneIn his capacity as LEPS Committee chair, Hayes has taken a special interest in such issues as the continuing 35 - million - gallon - a-day leakage of the New York City Water Supply's West Branch Tunnel in the Town of Wawarsing, where he initiated the implementation of an Emergency Response Plan for a potential catastrophic failure of the Tunnein such issues as the continuing 35 - million - gallon - a-day leakage of the New York City Water Supply's West Branch Tunnel in the Town of Wawarsing, where he initiated the implementation of an Emergency Response Plan for a potential catastrophic failure of the Tunnein the Town of Wawarsing, where he initiated the implementation of an Emergency Response Plan for a potential catastrophic failure of the Tunnel.

The state also wants Indian Point to install cooling towers that would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to mitigate harm to wildlife when the plant sucks in billions of gallons of Hudson River water to cool its turbines.

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.

On paper, a plan by the Kingston Water Department to sell almost 1.8 million gallons of water a day to a major bottling company to establish a plant in the Town of Ulster may make sWater Department to sell almost 1.8 million gallons of water a day to a major bottling company to establish a plant in the Town of Ulster may make swater a day to a major bottling company to establish a plant in the Town of Ulster may make sense.

For the most part, city officials went underground when news broke that the water department was negotiating a deal to sell a maximum of 1.75 million gallons of water a day to a national bottling company to be headquartered at a new plant in Lake Katrine.

Water is available in much of the area, with a further expansion planned for next spring, and the supply is more than adequate to service potential demands in excess of 1 million gallons a day.

Half a million gallons of water may be a drop in the bucket of an ocean environment, but it's a tripling in size for the Salt Lake City - area aquarium, which moves to a new and greatly expanded home in a southern suburb.

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.

During a cold snap in 2010, farmers in the state strawberry capital of Plant City pumped millions of gallons of underground water onto their crops to save them — but ended up causing dozens of sinkholes.

To free the gas trapped in the Marcellus and other shale formations, drillers pump millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground under pressure.

The researchers estimate that a fully populated 20 x 20 foot mussel raft similar to the one used in this study would clean an average of three million gallons of water and remove about 350 pounds of particulate matter, like dust and soot, daily.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico sank the oil rig and created a leak that has spewed millions of gallons into the water.

Extensive mining and agriculture in west central Florida have lowered the water table enough to turn springs into sinkholes along the Peace River, which each day loses about 11 million gallons, or 8 percent of its flow, to these underground caverns.

One of the state's largest spills to date occurred in 2014, when an underground pipeline leak caused approximately 1 million gallons of brine to flow down a ravine and into Bear Den Bay, about a quarter mile upstream from a drinking water intake on Lake Sakakawea.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

Some 13,000 desalinization plants capable of producing 52.3 million cubic meters (13.8 billion gallons) of potable water a day are currently in operation, according to the International Desalination Association (IDA).

South Bend, Ind., avoided $ 120 million in upgrades and conserved millions of gallons of water by becoming one of the first cities on the globe to use cloud computing to manage its water systems.

One new feature, for example, is a 2.8 - million - liter (750,000 - gallon) water tank on top of the containment vessel surrounding the core that would use gravity in the case of emergency to send water flowing over the core, cooling it to prevent a meltdown.

A report by Western Resource Advocates notes that «thermoelectric power plants in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah consumed an estimated 292 million gallons of water a day in 2005 - approximately equal to the water consumed by Denver, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, combined.»

The Gilt Edge Mine in South Dakota was a gold mine that an insolvent company abandoned in the late 1990s, leaving behind 150 million gallons of acidic heavy - metal - laden water, as well as millions of cubic yards of acid - generating tailings.

Between 1973 and 1990, an average of 11.8 million gallons of oil spilled each year in American waters.

Longer than two football fields and filled with 2.6 million gallons of salt water, this test tank in Leonardo, New Jersey, allows scientists to re-create nearly all the conditions of a spill.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

In addition to saving 42 million gallons of water over the course of the year, the school had $ 42,000 more in its pocket by the end of the experiment — which it plans to spend on more locally grown fruits, vegetables, legumes, and organic pastured beeIn addition to saving 42 million gallons of water over the course of the year, the school had $ 42,000 more in its pocket by the end of the experiment — which it plans to spend on more locally grown fruits, vegetables, legumes, and organic pastured beein its pocket by the end of the experiment — which it plans to spend on more locally grown fruits, vegetables, legumes, and organic pastured beef.

Millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and up to 300 tons of chemicals are then pumped into the well at high pressure to create breaks in the rock and release the gas.

There's, you know, not if you're gluten - sensitive, in fact and as a matter fact, research shows it's 20 parts per million, which is equivalent to a drop of water to a gallon of water, that — that amount of gluten exposure can create an inflammatory response for up to 2 months.

Remembered as the worst spill in U.S. history, the incident involved a BP - operated rig exploding and sinking near the Mississippi River Delta before it unloaded millions of gallons of crude oil into the water for over a month.

252 million divided by 660 quadrillion is one gallon of oil for every 2.6 billion gallons of water in the Gulf of Mexico.

With more than 10 million gallons of fresh and marine water and more aquatic life than found in any other aquarium, you are sure to see things you've never seen before!

A redesign of the restaurant's walk - in coolers is saving a million gallons of water a year.

With more than two million guests visiting our facility each year, and thousands of aquatic animals living in 10 million gallons of water behind acrylic, we can not put ourselves at risk of either an intentional or accidental discharge of a weapon within our facility.

Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that contains more than 10 million gallons of water.