Sentences with phrase «investigate water contamination»

A Hudson Valley congressman has called on the Department of Defense to investigate water contamination in Newburgh.

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Once more information is compiled, he said, the D.E.C. may investigate the source of the contamination, and, if necessary, plans could be made to have affected residents hooked up to public water.

Rep. Chris Gibson, a Republican from the Hudson Valley, announced in a statement earlier in the morning the House panel would investigate the circumstances of a PFOA contamination of the drinking water in the rural village of Hoosick Falls.

It took the efforts of the group Riverkeeper, which advocates for clean water in the Hudson River, to convince the DEC to investigate sewage contamination from a discharge pipe maintained by the City of Troy and Rensselaer County Sewer districts.

Mr. Seggos said his agency, working with the State Health Department, would investigate the extent of the contamination, which has been linked to the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant, located on the edge of the Hoosick River, not far from the municipal wells that provide the village with its drinking water.

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.

Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing

For example, the Bioenergy Technologies Office has helped a company develop a process for making commercial airliner biofuel (now being tested by Boeing), and it sponsored research by public university scientists investigating how a bioenergy crop can help prevent water contamination from fertilizer runoff.