Sentences with phrase «local water driller»

«When innovating this method, we took into account three important aspects — namely the local water driller's knowledge and role, the cost to drill for water and access to water with low amounts of arsenic,» Bhattacharya says.

Not exact matches

In South Texas, where drought has forced cotton farmers to scale back, local water officials said drillers are contributing to a drop in the water table in several areas.

Also on hand were residents from Dimock, Pa., a community where drilling operations have been blamed for contaminating water wells and having other deleterious effects on the environment — claims that local drillers either deny or claim are overblown.

Local regulatory requirements may not help: for instance, although the researchers discovered methane contamination at homes within 1,000 meters of active natural gas wells, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection only holds drilling companies responsible for drinking water within 305 meters.

Needles, despite its proximity to the physical river itself, gets most of its water from underground — pumping hundreds of million gallons a year from four wells drilled into the local aquifer.

They created a simple chart of four colors, based on the local well driller's sediment color perception and Munsell color system, which drillers can use to identify safe layers — and also avoid unsafe layers — when they install drinking water wells.

On top of that, Goodbred found, local shrimp farmers had drilled holes into the dikes to pipe salt water from coastal rivers into their hatcheries, weakening the barriers.

There are three ways this can be done: (1) drill a well on the property, (2) pick up water from the local fire station and fill a holding tank on the property that connects to the home's plumbing, (3) pay to have water delivered by a third party company.

Great Falls — Today, WildEarth Guardians, the Montana Environmental Information Center, and three local landowners moved to protect Montana's clean water and climate from oil and gas drilling and fracking.

«A proposal for the first oil and gas drilling in federal offshore waters of the Arctic took a step forward Thursday as regulators released a draft environmental impact statement, which reflects concerns about the effects of the project on marine life and local communities.»

With water quality from the town bore declining for some years, some local people have looked back to how people survived in days before the bore was drilled.