Sentences with phrase «protect underground water supplies»
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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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.
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.