Sentences with phrase «of public drinking water»

At 11 a.m., Toxics Targeting Inc. holds a news conference releasing photos of algal blooms threatening the sources of public drinking water for residents of Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester, Ithaca and other communities across New York, state Capitol, third floor, adjoining to the LCA Press Room, Albany.

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«The agency should include and explain the... investigations conducted in Dimock, Pennsylvania; Pavillion, Wyoming; and Parker County, Texas where hydraulic fracturing activities are perceived by many members of the public to have caused significant local impacts to drinking water resources,» states the advisory body's review.

Damages include flooded homes, lack of drinking water and electrical services, massive destruction of plantations and crops, risks associated with mosquito - borne and water - borne diseases, collapsed structures, public safety issues, and millions of evacuees in shelters.

The Christy Clark government needs to take these test results seriously and start testing all of the drinking water in public buildings, particularly where children frequent, in the North West.»

We woefully underestimate the power of business leaders if we think they are engaged in private enterprise, for their decisions have huge public impacts not only on their stockholders but on the jobs we need, the neighborhoods in which we live, the water we drink, the air we breathe and the schools in which we learn.

In 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- using recommendations from a series of independent panels — set the limit for public drinking water at 10 parts per billion (ppb).

«I've been a fan of Steaz's iced - green tea drinks for years, and I'm excited to now be working with the brand to help launch their new cactus water line and educate the public about prickly pear juice.

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Erie County Department of Health is responsible for overseeing and regulating public drinking water supplies» compliance with State and Federal standards.

The questions came at the first of these two joint Senate and Assembly public hearings, but the talk was dominated by the contamination of drinking water in Hoosick Falls, as well as issues that have developed in Petersburgh and Newburgh.

State Department of Health Deputy Commissioner for the Office of Public Health Brad Hutton says the legislation expands drinking water protections.

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

At the first of three legislative hearings on Hoosick Falls and water quality issues on Tuesday, state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker pointed to the EPA dozens of times as the reason residents were allowed to drink poisoned water without public warning.

«I urge you to move beyond accusatory letters and, rather, work cooperatively with EPA Region 2 and the residents of Hoosick Falls on the important work of cleaning up the contamination in the Village and protecting the public drinking water supply,» she wrote.

«We did receive a letter dated March 10, 2015, from Mayor Borge, that summarized the situation, asked for our assistance, and that stated, «the NYS Department of Health recently published a public notice specific to Hoosick Falls in which it determined that there were no immediate health risks associated with our drinking water.»»

«One of Governor Cuomo's key priorities is protecting and preserving public drinking water source areas,» DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said.

Some of the concerns opponents of the project at the press conference expressed were: perceived risk to public health of drinking Hudson River water; effect on wildlife of the Haverstraw Bay; and rising costs of water for United Water customers and Rockland businewater; effect on wildlife of the Haverstraw Bay; and rising costs of water for United Water customers and Rockland businewater for United Water customers and Rockland busineWater customers and Rockland businesses.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation has purchased a 38 - acre parcel in the pine barrens that expands public lands and recreational green space while helping to preserve Long Island's drinking water resources, officials announced Wednesday.

Officials in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York are expanding their efforts to find out how much of a potentially toxic chemical ended up in drinking water, from private wells to public water systems.

At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York public health, environment, and healthy schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.

Every one of the state's 728 public school districts must run lead tests on the water coming from drinking fountains and most of the sinks in every school building.

The Bronx is getting the least out of a city - wide program that places water fountains in public places, en effort to encourage residents to drink more H20 instead of sugary drinks.

The Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm even though federal regulators warned senior health department officials that people in Hoosick Falls should be alerted they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of a chemical linked to cancer and other serious health problems, according to documents recently obtained by POLITICO New York through a Freedom of Information Request.

«We will continue to advance the latest treatment technologies to ensure our public drinking water systems are safeguarded from these unregulated chemicals that threaten the health of citizens and the environment,» Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a news release announcing the approval of the Suffolk system.

... Brad Hutton, the deputy commissioner for the Office of Public Health, noted that the state Drinking Water Quality Council has held two full - day meetings and a third is scheduled for next week.

Riverkeeper is actively involoved in litigation, advocacy, and public education surrounding the issue of shale gas extraction and related infrastructure, particularly because of the potential impacts on New York State's drinking water supplies.

Any sign of drinking water contamination signals a public health crisis and is a call for a ban.»

He won bipartisan approval of a law setting testing and safety standards for drinking water in every public school — the first law of its kind in the United States.

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«This sort of investment, and more of it, is the only way way that our public drinking water stays safe, our waterways become better places to swim, boat and fish, and our energy demands get met sustainably.»

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

«As the federal official who alerted the public about the risk of drinking the toxic water in Hoosick Falls, I continue to be concerned that the state of New York has not learned the lessons from their water crisis,» she said in a statement provided to the Times Union late Tuesday.

Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said the area had been expanded «to ensure public confidence in the quality of drinking water, and the fact that irrigation wells can draw contaminants outside of normal flow.»

Senate Republicans also proposed a Drinking Water Quality Institute made up of public health experts, scientists and water providers to help set standards on unregulated contaminWater Quality Institute made up of public health experts, scientists and water providers to help set standards on unregulated contaminwater providers to help set standards on unregulated contaminants.

It would address the decades - old issue of septic tanks on Long Island that threaten drinking water supplies and surface waters, according to a Senate report released last year after a series of public hearings chaired by Sen. Kemp Hannon (R - Garden City).

It was 16 months, remember, from August 2014 — when state officials first learned of high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, in Hoosick Falls» public drinking water supply and private wells — to the time the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stepped in and told residents not to drink or cook with their tap water, in December 2015.

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Near fracking operations in Pavillion, Wyoming, monitors with the Environmental Protection Agency detected unsafe levels of benzene in water - monitoring wells and methane and various hydrocarbons in public drinking water wells.

Environmental groups have long raised questions about this track record, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office recently joined the chorus, releasing a report that charges the agency with taking actions that have «impeded... progress in helping assure the public of safe drinking water.»

The top priorities for urban water sustainability include the provision of safe drinking water, wastewater handling for public health, and protection against flooding.

«It is perverse that we are staring down the barrel of budget cuts that will lead to dirtier drinking water as we reward corporations with tens of billions of dollars a year to poison the public,» said Benjamin Schreiber, tax analyst with FoE.

Since this water isn't a source of drinking water and is underground, the contamination isn't an immediate public health threat, says Sanial, now a geochemist at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.

Dr. Mona Hanna - Attisha, a pediatrician, director of a pediatric residency program in Flint, Mich. and the first person to raise public concerns about elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint area children, talked about the consequences of sounding the alarm over her research that found Flint's water system was leaching lead into drinking water and making her young patients sick.

Indeed, some consider the chlorination of drinking water to be one of history's greatest public health achievements.

And Life magazine recently cited the filtration of drinking water and use of chlorine as «probably the most significant public health advance of the millennium.»

The issue revolves around high levels of lead in drinking water and a 2007 paper in Environmental Health Perspectives that claimed «no identifiable public health impact» had resulted.

Lead author, Capt. Leslie MacDonald, Sc.D., senior scientist in the U.S. Public Health Service, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, of the Centers for Disease Control, suggests that employees consider taking small steps to improve their overall cardiovascular health, including: • Going for a walk during lunch or other breaks • Parking farther away from destinations • Taking the stairs instead of elevators • Managing stress through breathing exercises or meditation • Bringing healthy snacks to work such as fruits, nuts and yogurt • Drinking water throughout the day

Although incidents of waterborne infections resulting from indoor plumbing are rare, the new model may help public health authorities assess drinking - water quality.

«No one is either exposed to, or drinks, these waters, and thus public health is not of primary concern here,» the scientists said in a study published October 2 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The research team, led by Joseph Graziano, PhD, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, assessed 272 children in grades 3 - 5, who were, on average, 10 years old, from three school districts in Maine where household wells are the predominant source for drinking water and cooking.