Sentences with phrase «of gallons of wastewater»

There, under a steel shed, they began to unload thousands of gallons of wastewater for burial deep beneath the earth.

If widely used, this technology has the potential to eliminate millions of gallons of wastewater per year and reduce the use of a hazardous chemical by 50 percent.

North Dakota has helped reduce U.S. oil imports but must grapple with millions of gallons of wastewater

Not exact matches

Despite the billboards Georgia - Pacific has put up along interstate highways proclaiming the company's love for the St. Johns River, you don't pipe 40 million gallons of polluted wastewater into the middle of the St. Johns daily, which is exactly what the Georgia - Pacific paper mill in Palatka is doing.»

15,000 ft ² is dedicated to six ancillary buildings including process utility buildings (this includes primary and secondary facilities to process over one million gallons of wastewater per day), a guardhouse and truck weigh stations.

We recycle approximately 80 tons of corrugated cardboard, pre-treat more than 34.6 million gallons of wastewater, and reuse more than 3.4 million pounds of unused soy annually.

Some of the new filtration technology makes it possible to recover 90 % of previously lost wastewater in dairy processing plants with potential savings of up to 1.6 m gallons of water and 820,000 gallons of milk each year, according to Tetra Pak.

In one U.S. town, one such company is responsible for discharging approximately 50 million gallons / day of wastewater into a nearby river.

Since then, we have all learned a lot about the risks of fracking — about how the toxic chemicals used can migrate into drinking water, about how methane can leak out of well casements, about the danger of disposing of billions of gallons of polluted wastewater the process produces.

The surcharge — $ 1 per 1,000 gallons of water used — is part of Bellone's plan to address the nitrogen problem in Suffolk's waterways through tackling the sources of the pollutant, mainly wastewater from the 360,000 home septic and cesspool systems in the county.

«In the western region of New York, despite the monumental efforts of wastewater operators, our region experienced sewer overflows which has caused thousands of gallons of raw sewage to flow into local waterways.

Over half of the wastewater from fracking, rough 2 - 6 million gallons, is often released back into the main supply with minimal treatment due to ineffectiveness of facilities to detect, let alone properly treat.

The Water Board issued written statements blaming those on heavy rains overtaxing the wastewater treatment plant's capacity of 60 million gallons a day.

Though the amount of water processed through the system isn't troublesome — 600,000 gallons per day is permitted, and they usually use around 130,000, Mayor Gregory Martin said — the village pipes are old, and whenever it rains, inflow to their wastewater system poses possible threats.

The Rensselaer County Sewer District has been modernizing its treatment plant and pumping stations, including installation of UV disinfection technology that can treat more than 63 million gallons a day of wastewater.

There are another 5.5 gallons of space for wastewater.

The treatment system, which began operation in January, purifies wastewater that would otherwise be dumped into the Pacific, creating 70 million gallons a day of clean water.

One gallon of typical domestic wastewater contains enough organic compounds and nitrogen to power a 100 - watt lightbulb for five minutes.

Over the past 20 years, the district has modernized its water reclamation system, which now returns 70 billion gallons of treated wastewater annually to Lake Mead, the source of 90 percent of Las Vegas's water.

University of South Florida researchers investigating the aftermath of a September, 2014 sewer line break in St. Petersburg, Florida, have found dangerous antibiotic - resistant bacteria in the untreated wastewater that gushed into neighborhoods and into Boca Ciega Bay at a rate of 250 to 500 gallons per minute.

Heavy downpours can overwhelm New York's antiquated 19th - century sewer systems, the miles of pipes and tunnels that carry away wastewater and, when overtaxed, divert billions of gallons of raw sewage and contaminated urban runoff into the rivers, lakes and the ocean.

Some 3 million gallons of toxic wastewater have poured from a defunct Colorado gold mine into local streams since a team of EPA workers accidentally triggered the spill last week

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

About 2 billion gallons of wastewater get injected underground every day into about 180,000 disposal wells in the U.S., mainly in Texas, California, Oklahoma and Kansas, according to the official news release.

This rapid proliferation of unconventional oil and gas recovery has also resulted in millions of gallons of highly brackish wastewater, which comes up with the retrieved oil and gas.

More than 1,400 wastewater treatment plants in the United States and Canada discharge 4.8 billion gallons of treated effluent into the Great Lakes basin every day, according to the study.

Companies produce millions of gallons of salty, chemical - infused wastewater, known as brine, as part of drilling and fracking each well.

Salting the Earth Six years ago, a four - inch saltwater pipeline ruptured just outside Linda Monson's property line, leaking about a million gallons of salty wastewater.

Scientists suspected that the Arkansas earthquakes were triggered by the injection of approximately 94.5 million gallons of fracking wastewater into to nearby wells, which then made its way into the basement layer during a nine - month period.

In January, for example, a leaking pipeline spewed more than 11 million liters (2.9 million gallons) of fracking wastewater.

These efforts have already led to the successful treatment of municipal wastewater and sewage sludge at the 100 - gallon per - day scale, enough to support a small household.

For years, large chemical companies had been using Toms River as their private dumping ground, burying tens of thousands of leaky drums in open pits and discharging billions of gallons of acid - laced wastewater into the town's namesake river.

Planters in the parking lot are part of a wastewater treatment system that cleans and reuses up to 10,000 gallons of water a day.

The result: an elaborate series of 21 man - made wetlands and reservoirs that allows the county to collect 10 million gallons of wastewater a day and eventually convert it to drinking water...

The segment also includes an interesting tour of Manhattan's North River Wastewater Treatment Plant, which currently treats approximately 125 million gallons of wastewater every day.

According to the article, this means that «for each modern gas well drilled in the Marcellus and places like it, more than 3 million gallons of chemically tainted wastewater could be left in the ground forever.

The East Bay district uses about 4.5 million watts to treat some 22 billion gallons of wastewater per year, Figueroa said.

We report on contamination from the millions of gallons of toxic wastewater generated each day by tar sands mines.

It identifies 28 wastewater treatment sites in California that could be inundated by seawater under current projections, including one of the world's largest facilities, Hyperion, which treats up to 450 million gallons per day for the City of Los Angeles.

Fracking is known to use millions of gallons of toxic and radioactive wastewater, which has polluted drinking water.

The facility, funded by ExxonMobil and the Saudi Arabian government, would discharge more than 13 million gallons a day of toxic wastewater.

Fracking operations in Pennsylvania alone are expected to create 19 million gallons of wastewater.

(Currently, the city throws 1.4 billion gallons of treated wastewater into the rivers each day.)»

However, the high rates of evapotranspiration, nearly 1 gallon / square foot of green roof / day, eliminated the volume of wastewater.

The 32 gallons of drained wastewater was then pumped to the roof on a continuous basis.

How many cars carry 100 pounds of LP gas, 300 gallons of water and up to 200 gallons of wastewater while they're traveling down the road?