Sentences with phrase «public drinking water source»

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

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

An environmental database company says toxic algae threatens public recreational and drinking water sources around New York.

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.

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.

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.

«The bottom line is: these rules fail to protect the nation's public lands — home to our last wild places, and sources of drinking water for millions of people — from the risks of fracking,» said Amy Mall, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a statement.

Under the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, public water systems that provide you with tap water, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effWater Act, public water systems that provide you with tap water, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effwater systems that provide you with tap water, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effwater, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effects.

Last Wednesday, stories that Salzman presented in the book were sourced extensively in a Washington Post article about the slow disappearance of public drinking fountains in the era of bottle water.