Sentences with phrase «public water supply»

For those using tap water from public water supplies, there is little danger as the water supply is constantly monitored and warnings are issued if there is a risk of contamination.

However, local public water suppliers may require such measures depending upon local needs and conditions.

Cryptosporidium has also been found in public water supplies in some major cities.

Some public drinking water analysis» have found over 2000 different toxic chemicals in public water supplies tested.

Is it possible that 1080 could accidentally leak into public water supplies and cause depressions, convulsions and deaths attributable to heart attack, and that no one would know the cause?

As Gleick points out, the history of water - related diseases and pollution has made us suspicious of public water supplies.

Beyond the benefits to individual homeowners, rainwater harvesting can also be good for the local community, as it reduces the erosion, flooding and pollution runoff associated with heavy rainfall, and lessens reliance on public water supplies, alleviating some of the burden on utilities.

«While most public water supplies are still generally normal throughout the state, below normal precipitation over the last nine months, low stream flows and reduced groundwater levels have prompted the need for this action,» DEC commissioner Basil Seggos said in a statement.

Celeste Evangelisti has devoted almost two decades of her career to representing individuals, municipalities and public water suppliers who seek to recover costs to clean up contamination from the companies responsible — those who put dangerous products into the stream of commerce without ensuring they will not cause extensive environmental...

She is poised to pursue New York State grant funding for two major local infrastructure concerns, upgrades to the town's public water supply system and replacement of the town pool, during her second two - year term.

The property is permanently protected by a conservation restriction purchased by the state Department of Conservation and Recreation and the City of Worcester, which was eager to protect an important part of its Quinapoxet Reservoir public water supply watershed.

Petersburgh has had private and public water supplies tainted with PFOA, a chemical used in manufacturing insulating and non-stick materials.

The discovery of PFOS in public water supply wells in the vicinity of the Air National Guard Base at Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, traced to the firefighting foam used at the base, led the state to declare the area a Superfund site last September.

Top priorities for a second Walsh term include securing grants for replacement of the town pool and major upgrades to Rosendale's public water supply infrastructure.

The process, which involves blasting a mixture of chemicals and water underground in order to extract gas underneath, is seen as a potential economic boon for the upstate region, but environmentalists fear it could damage public water supplies.

Officials said the typical level of the toxic chemical found in the blood samples of more than 2,000 Rensselaer County residents is about 11 times higher than the national average, but well below levels detected in other areas of the nation where the contaminant has also polluted public water supplies.

Several environmental organizations, boosted by the popular movie «Gasland,» have claimed that using hydrofracturing can endanger public water supplies, in part because of potentially toxic chemicals that are sometimes used to help extract the gas.

They can write the check for a new public water supply, and provide just a little relief for a community they devastated.

The report recommends investing more money in conserving land in buffer zones around public water supplies.

The amendments require the agency to control specific disease - causing organisms and indicators that may be present in drinking water and to require public water suppliers to disinfect water.

Drinking water free of chemicals like sodium fluoride and chlorine is essential because water will help flush the waste away, but the chemicals dumped into most western public water supplies will kill off good intestinal flora, and therefore should be avoided.

We brew our Kombucha with a filtered public water supply that presumably has fluoride without ill effect.

Soon after, in 1962, the United States Public Health Service (PHS) recommended that public water supplies contain fluoride to help prevent tooth decay.

Chlorine is used in both public swimming pools and waterparks for that reason, and since the early 20th century in US public water supplies (tap water, shower water).

Most of the contaminants in public water supplies exist at such small concentrations that most people would have to ingest very large quantities for health problems to occur.

During his term Bakerton acquired the first streetcar line in the county, the first public water supply.

Private wells aren't regulated by the same standards that the EPA sets for public water suppliers.

As a member of the Environmental Litigation Group, Ms. Espino MacLean represents private and public entities in litigation to recover costs of removing chemical contaminants from public water supplies, governmental facilities, natural resources and public property.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli released an audit of Cortland County Public Water Supplies, focusing safety testing and how it was reported.

Celeste Evangelisti has devoted almost two decades of her career to representing individuals, municipalities and public water suppliers who seek to recover costs to clean up contamination from the companies responsible — those who put dangerous products into the stream of commerce without ensuring they will not cause extensive environmental contamination.

Copper in drinking water — given at the maximum levels permitted in public water supplies — accelerated the growth of tumors in mice.

Is your tap water fluoridated like most public water supplies?

Under ABWI's Model Code, water products derived from a source other than a public water supply must be rigorously tested by a professionally qualified hydrogeologist.

The law requires any industry that discharges wastes into a public water supply to pay their pro rata share of treatment cost.

Public water supplies have been examined, these include four thousand suppliers whose water serves more than ten thousand US citizens.

The New York Democrat in September introduced an amendment to the Water Resources Development Act that would require the Environmental Protection Agency to expand water testing for unregulated drinking water contaminants to all public water supplies.

However, the Cuomo administration continued to press the EPA to expand testing of all public water supplies or, as an alternative, have the Legislature pass a measure to do just that.

All public water supplies are required to test for a variety of contaminants.

«Public water supplies and sanitary sewer systems are essential to urban and suburban living.

It was a local resident, Michael Hickey, who first raised alarms about PFOA in the public water supply in the summer of 2014.

Whereas last year it was principally the farmers that were affected by the dry conditions and the public water supply was not affected, I think it is more likely that the public water supply will be affected unless we have substantial rainfall between now and the summer.»

Mr. Suarez was referring to a health emergency in Hoosick Falls, a village near the Vermont border where the public water supply was found to be tainted with high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA.

In recent months, Hoosick Falls, about 30 miles northeast of Albany, has become the epicenter of a sprawling public health crisis after researchers discovered that the public water supply was tainted with high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA.