Sentences with phrase «municipal effluent»

The study evaluated different types of wetland restoration, including mangrove planting, wetland assimilation — the introduction of treated municipal effluent into impounded and degraded wetlands to provide freshwater and nutrients for restoration purposes, and river diversion — use of new channels and / or structures to divert sediment and freshwater from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers into adjacent basins.

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However, often the effluent treatment focus of the Australasian and Asia - Pacific industries — including particularly the food and beverage industry — has been somewhat limited to reducing their effluent discharge tariffs or at most treating effluent to a quality that meets municipal standards.

Specifically, they have found unnaturally high levels of antibiotic resistance genes in sediments where the river comes into contact with treated municipal wastewater effluent and farm irrigation runoff as it flows 126 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park through Fort Collins and across Colorado's eastern plain, home to some of the country's most densely packed livestock operations.

Municipal supplies are also often contaminated by industry, agriculture and wastewater effluents.

For example, if the evidence shows that effluents from municipal water treatment, from animal manure, or from pharmaceutical manufacturing plants are selecting for antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment, that may justify treatment of such waste streams prior to application on croplands.

Responsible for the operation, repair and maintenance of an on - site recycling system facility that converts municipal wastewater into high quality non-potable effluent for use in boilers, chillers and flushing commodes.