Sentences with phrase «main drinking water source»

Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, calling for an immediate investigation into the possible cause of PFOS contamination in Newburgh's main drinking water source — outfalls into retention ponds at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

Seggos and Hutton were at the press conference with Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who announced legislative action he is taking to ensure the Department of Defense pays for the remediation of PFOS contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base and halts PFOS - laden discharges from the base into area water bodies, including the city's main drinking water source, Washington Lake.

PFOS contamination in Newburgh's main drinking water source — Washington Lake — was discovered in May 2016.

U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, Assemblyman Frank Skartados, Newburgh City Manager Michael Ciaravino and Riverkeeper are calling on the Department of Defense to stop the discharge of PFOS contaminated water from outfalls at the base to Silver Stream and other tributaries to Washington Lake, the city's main drinking water source.

Local groups and citizens held a rally over the weekend to call on the U.S. Department of Defense to halt PFOS discharges from Stewart Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York, which drain into the city's main drinking water source and the Hudson River.

Not exact matches

We get some water from food, «but drinking water is your main, and best source, of water,» according to a website maintained by the US National Institutes of Health.

Fluoridated water and supplements (if your main source of drinking water has an insufficient concentration of fluoride).

In May, the public learned of PFOS contamination in the main source of drinking water for Newburgh — Washington Lake.

Senator Schumer on Tuesday visited Washington Lake, the main source of drinking water for Newburgh that is contaminated with PFOS.

City Manager Michael Ciaravino says the state of emergency was declared because of the discovery of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) in Silver Stream and Washington Lake, the main source of drinking water for Newburgh.

The cattle no longer drink from the creek, which was their main water source.

I recommend this as your main source of drinking water.

Though it has been found in air, water and dust, the main source of BPA exposure for most humans is foods and drinks stored in containers that contain it.

They could no longer grow food for their children because nutrients in the soil were depleted; they had no access to firewood, which was their main source of energy; livestock suffered because there was no vegetation to graze on; and streams were drying up or were polluted by soil runoff, resulting in a lack of drinking water.

The Silent Valley Reservoir in Northern Ireland collects H20 from the Moune Mountains and distributes it as the main source of drinking water for the bulk of County Down and Belfast.

The large majority of rural households in India still depend on fi re wood as their main energy source for cooking and to treat drinking water.

The Ganges river delta is the main source of drinking water for hundreds of millions of people.

The main call at camp is water is life and they feel that this pipeline that goes through and under their water source and drinking source and fishing and hunting area is a violation of their treaty rights.