Sentences with phrase «protect underground water»
Suffolk residents are paying two - and - a-half times the national average in taxes — more than two billion dollars since 1998 to preserve land and protect underground water supplies.
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... i know your book says don't believe anything else before or after to protect its place in history, but just as you would read greek mythology and have incredulous thoughts about multigods ruling the earth water and the undergrounds, those who are not stuck on your wavelength, read your mythology and think how anyone in their right minds could ever fall for those idolatric stories... your belief in your creationist god is as unfathomable as an adult looking up the chimney and feeling the power of Santa Clause in them... does the power of Santa Clause compel you?
But not all aquifers are exempted, and the system amounts to a patchwork of protected and unprotected water resources deep underground.
A 2012 ProPublica investigation of more than 700,000 injection wells across the country found that wells were often poorly regulated and experienced high rates of failure, outcomes that were likely polluting underground water supplies that are supposed to be protected by federal law.
The boundaries of the property cover the entire watershed of the underground river, thus protecting water quality and quantity and ensuring the long - term viability of the outstanding natural values contained within the property.
In California, state officials have admitted to allowing oil companies to drill injection wells into protected aquifers and dispose of oil waste fluid into underground water supplies across the state.
A lifelong advocate for our coast, Williams championed required testing of groundwater before, during, and after hydraulic fracturing, which was included in California's regulations on fracking, and authored legislation to expand groundwater monitoring to other types of injection wells to protect underground sources of drinking water from oil and gas wastewater disposal.
For one thing, saving large open spaces protects the local aquifer, the underground layer of rock that stores rainwater and melting snow, and our prime source of drinking water.
The Saw Mill River flows 23 miles from its headwaters before emptying into the Hudson River in Yonkers, N.Y.. For nearly 100 years, the last half - mile passed through an underground flume built to protect downtown Yonkers from flooding and from the mix of human and industrial pollution poisoning the river's waters.