Sentences with phrase «near the water supply»

To get permits to dispose of hazardous waster after 1988, companies had to prove — using complex models and geological studies — that the stuff they injected wouldn't migrate anywhere near water supplies for 10,000 years.

One scene for instance is a huge axe battle near the water supply section.

Not exact matches

Nabhan points out that with water capacity near its limit for cities and rural agricultural areas, «food security in the Southwest depends upon the security of water supplies being delivered to irrigable land.

With its pure water supply, near pristine growing environment and dedication to conservation - based farming methods, this 2,300 - hectare farm on the banks of the Gemadro River is setting new standards for progressive, sustainable coffee farming.

Kinisky said Saint - Gobain has consistently taken responsibility to help find and fund alternate water supplies, or provide filtering systems, in areas where PFOA and other perflourinated chemicals have been detected in groundwater near its current and former manufacturing plants.

The city's water supply, Lake Washington, is near the Stewart Air National Guard Base in Orange County, which the state Department of Environmental Conservation declared a Superfund site because it is likely the source of the pollution.

The municipal water supply in Hoosick Falls, a village in Rensselaer County near the Vermont border, was found to have been contaminated with the chemical PFOA from a nearby plastics plant run by Saint - Gobain.

Although the source of the contamination has not been identified, officials have focused on the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant, which is located near several wells that supply Hoosick Falls» water treatment plant.

The community near the Vermont border has been grappling with the chemical PFOA in its public water supply.

The U.S. Department of Defense is testing water supplies near air bases after high readings of PFOS have been discovered around the country.

The Departments of Environmental Conservation and Health recently announced that Honeywell, one of the companies that's been deemed responsible for the contamination of local water supplies with the chemical PFOA, would conduct a soil vapor intrusion investigation near the company's former facility on John Street.

Critics of hydrofracking near the city's water supply praised the plan, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said the DEC «made the right decision.»

In June 2015, tests of the public water supply in Hoosick Falls were found to contain more than 600 parts per trillion of PFOA, according to a November letter from the E.P.A., with levels near the plastics factory going as high as 18,000 parts per trillion.

Half of the near - distilled - quality reclaimed water is injected into a saltwater barrier — an underground supply of freshwater that prevents brine from creeping inland from the sea and contaminating fresh reserves.

Meanwhile, in Australia, as summer temperatures hovered near 117 degrees Fahrenheit (47 degrees Celsius) and murderous flames converted forests into carbon dioxide, a new book entitled Overloading Australia: How Governments and Media Dither and Deny on Population issued an unusual ecological battle cry: ignore all admonitions to conserve the country's increasingly scarce water supplies until the government eliminates «baby bonuses» in the tax code and clamps down on immigration.

Before 10,000 gallons of an obscure coal - processing chemical spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, W.Va., in January and contaminated water supplies for more than 300,000 residents, few people knew crude MCHM existed.

They warn that more frequent and more severe natural disasters, instability in food and water supply, the spread of infectious disease, and forced migration «are already affecting human health and provide a glimpse of the near future.»

In Fukushima and adjacent prefectures, the Japanese government is reporting radio ¬ active contamination in sea water near the plant and in the food and water supply.

PFOA entered the local water table near the DuPont plant and contaminated the potable water supply used by more than 100,000 people.

Keep your live foods in the rear of the store near maintenance equipment and water supplies.

Early San Francisco Water In 1858, John Bensley dammed Lobos Creek at its mouth near Baker Beach and built a redwood flume that carried the water around to Fort Point and modern - day Fort Mason, marking the advent of the city's first permanent water suWater In 1858, John Bensley dammed Lobos Creek at its mouth near Baker Beach and built a redwood flume that carried the water around to Fort Point and modern - day Fort Mason, marking the advent of the city's first permanent water suwater around to Fort Point and modern - day Fort Mason, marking the advent of the city's first permanent water suwater supply.

We are located near the water in the Supply Jetty area.

Kew Bridge Steam Museum is situated in Kew near the River Thames and houses a collection of water pumping steam engines, a steam railway and other water supply and treatment mechanisms.

This 09spot is important because you want to make sure you are near various supplies such as access to water.

Harry gets here by passing through the sewers connects to the water supply installation near the elementary school.

As part of the same pipeline network, the Dakota Access Pipeline had been deemed too hazardous to locate near the local water supply of Bismarck, North Dakota, and so was rerouted beneath the Missouri River upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.

The installation depicts the remote canyons of Glen Canyon, now exposed by the declining water levels of Lake Powell and Lake Havasu, near the intake for Colorado River Aqueduct, which directly supplies water to the greater Los Angeles region.

The plaintiffs argued that carbon dioxide emissions from projects funded by the two organizations are hurting these cities economically: «global warming, the suit argued, influences Santa Monica's water supply, the sea level near Oakland's airport and the snow on Rocky Mountain ski slopes» near Boulder, Colorado, according to the LAT story.

Johnson, K. S., S. C. Riser, and D. M. Karl (2010), Nitrate supply from deep to near - surface waters of the North Pacific subtropical gyre, Nature, 465, 1062 — 1065, doi: 10.1038 / nature09170

GRENOBLE, France, Jan. 22 (UPI)-- Glaciers in South America's Andes have been retreating at an increasing rate, which could affect the region's water supply in the near future, scientists say.

There is a near infinite supply of greenhouse gases available to the atmosphere in the form of water vapor from the ocean to provide the greenhouse effect, but the relative humidity in the atmosphere is much less than one.

Adding some greenhouse gases (CO2) to a near infinite supply of greenhouse gases in the form of water vapour available to the atmosphere has negligible effect.

Given that Phoenix, which sits in the middle of a desert, has been suffering from a series of droughts over the last 11 years (never mind that the water levels in its rivers recently dipped to near - record lows), it seems as though it could find better uses for its scarce water supplies

This coverage pays for towing your motorcycle to the nearest qualified repair facility when it breaks down due to dead battery, lockout, flat tire, insufficient supply of oil, fuel, water, etc. or entrapment of mud, water, snow or sand within 100 feet of the roadway.

Place hooks with water - resistant adhesive such as the Command ™ strips from 3M near the tub area for everyone's current towel and supplies.