Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, calling for an immediate investigation into the possible cause of PFOS contamination in Newburgh's main drinking water source —
outfalls into retention ponds at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.
Not exact matches
E.P.A. officials also point out that 62
outfalls dump storm water and untreated sewage
into the lake and that it is particularly dangerous after heavy rainfalls.
The treated wastewater would go
into an
outfall pipe to be discharged
into the ocean.
The effluent would then connect to a new pipe running south along the Wantagh State Parkway and to the Cedar Creek Sewage Treatment Plant in Wantagh, which uses an ocean
outfall pipe to discharge treated wastewater three miles
into the ocean.
Surfrider Foundation (Northern Beaches Branch) wants this election to be a turning point in Water Policy, to begin converting ocean
outfall sewage plants
into water reuse plants.
«When you look at a company like Patriot which has scores of
outfalls across dozens of permits, you're taking some serious money to come
into compliance,» says Derek Teaney, an attorney for Appalachian Mountain Advocates, one of the groups that brought the litigation.
They'll swim, that is, if it doesn't rain within 48 hours of the race, which would vent raw sewage
into the river from dozens of
outfall pipes.