Sentences with phrase «nearby water supplies»
In the meantime, the state has not released a plan for testing them or checking nearby water supplies that may be missed by the military.
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And there's growing evidence that when mining debris and waste gets into water supplies, the toxic metals can have dire health impacts for the people and mostly rural communities living nearby.
Nearly two years ago, Flint city officials, under the guidance of a state - appointed emergency fiscal manager, switched their city's water supply from Lake Huron to the nearby polluted Flint River.
Organic farming avoids dangerous chemicals that not only kill soil but also run off into nearby steams, polluting our water supply and threatening wildlife.
La Leche League International notes that this is a huge part of your treatment plan and that you should go on bed rest, keeping your baby nearby, along with water and supplies such as diapers and toys.
«Future leaks to groundwater or airborne radiological releases have the potential to affect the drinking water supply in the nearby New Croton Reservoir, affecting millions of people.»
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.
Nearby Petersburgh, too, has discovered a chemical contamination in its municipal water supply as well.
The chemical PFOA has been found in drinking water supplies in Hoosick Falls and nearby Petersbrugh, NY and Bennington, VT..
The town of Petersburgh nearby also had dangerous levels of PFOA in its municipal water supply.
But the earthquake cut off the water supply, buckled nearby roads and damaged computer servers.
Nearly all water needed to supply cities, farms, and industry accumulates as snow in nearby or distant mountain ranges melts and runs down into rivers used to irrigate crops, sustains fish and wildlife, and quenches...
Two primary solutions — shipping in water over long distances or cleaning nearby but dirty supplies — both require large amounts of energy, which is soaring in price.
These water resources supply more than 60 % of drinking water to the nearby city of Cuenca, the third largest city in Ecuador.
Across their range, northern raccoons are typically one of the most common mammals, especially in areas that have water or human development nearby, supplying streams or rubbish for them to forage through.
It gets in the water supply, and the villages nearby have endless health problems.
In a nearby cave, he finds a faucet that is supplying the water and turns it off, receiving the item.
The mild winter weather, the availability of protected waters and nearby farmlands which provide habitat and an abundant food supply all contribute to the year round abundance of bird watching opportunities in the Comox Valley.
In 2013, the opposite occurred; the water levels in the lake increased dramatically and caused the flamingos living on the lake to migrate to nearby lakes in search of a food supply.
So much so that Sarah Jean had to get a nearby water station to bring their supply.
Nearby inshore waters are home to a plentiful supply of Roosterfish, Mackerel, Red Snapper, Wahoo, and Snook.
Our water supply is fresh and clean, and comes from an underground spring nearby.
Daily nature walks are offered — guided or self - guided with supplied maps — including to the nearby thermal springs which date back to Roman times that provide the very alkaline, very soft and pure Monchique drinking water.
Though some might gag at the prospect of watering Chardonnay grapes with reclaimed sewage, [Laurence] Sterling [the operations manager] said the treatment is so advanced the recycled supplies are cleaner than what comes out of a nearby creek — which was bone dry last month.
Not only does the EPA study verify what the fracking industry has known for more than 60 years — that fracking is safe for nearby drinking water supplies — it also confirms sworn testimony given before Congress by Lisa Jackson when she was the EPA's administrator, that there have been «no proven cases where the fracking process itself has affected water.»
Furthermore, cities where the water supply is dependent on nearby mountain ranges could face collapse.
«The numbers of coal ash ponds and landfills that are contaminating water supplies continues to grow, yet nearby communities still do not have effective federal protection,» said Earthjustice attorney Lisa Evans.
Water companies are early movers since they have high energy demands nearby and land may be in short supply.
A random example I found is 16 USC 363, which forbids anyone to own a bathhouse in Hot Springs National Park which has been granted a hot water supply, if they already own another bathhouse nearby.
A tanker holds between 12,000 and 17,000 gallons, with water fetched from «known water supplies such as nearby ponds and tanks,» he says.