Sentences with phrase «public water system in»

TICONDEROGA — The planned uniform charge schedule for the public water system in Ticonderoga will probably have to wait until the first quarter of 2017.

Elevated levels of PFOA were found in the village's public water system in 2014.

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Damn the investors for making money on such lunacy, damn the paranoiacs who think the added fluoride in our public water systems is a mind - control drug, damn the Times for running a massive photo of a startup founder who thinks water «expires» and is described as «sitting naked and cross-legged on a hot spring, his long brown hair flowing over his chest.»

Land is still its largest component — and some 80 percent of «capital» gains in the U.S. economy are land - price gains Site values are increased by public investment in streets, water and sewer facilities and transportation hubs, in school systems, by zoning restrictions, by the general level of prosperity, and most of all, by whatever bankers will lend.

Our mission is to support the growth of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.

The California public water agency signed a deal with Tesla's energy storage deployment partner, Advanced Microgrid Solutions, to install Powerpack systems at 11 of its facilities back in 2016.

«No solid evidence has come to light that suggests privatizing the city's water and sewer systems would be in the public's best interest,» watchdog group Public Citizen concluded at thepublic's best interest,» watchdog group Public Citizen concluded at thePublic Citizen concluded at the time.

Natural disasters devastate communities and the environment, leaving public water systems compromised in the aftermath, unsafe by both state and federal health standards.

His accomplishments in his island paradise service to the crown (1846 - 54) range from establishing the postal system, creating the first library and public education system on the island, to having piped water delivered to Port of Spain, the capital.

«In the present state of our knowledge it appears not to be a danger to public water systems.»

Georgia Health News surveyed the state's 20 largest public school systems about their lead testing policies and found many differences in how school systems evaluated their water quality.

In their letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos and DOH Commissioner Howard Zucker note that public water systems that serve less than 10,000 people are exempt from the agency's Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule program.

And why should people who live in areas served by public water systems below this threshold be treated as second class citizens — does their health and safety not warrant the same protection as everyone else?»

The state asked the federal Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the amount of colorless contaminant 1,4 - dioxane found in public water systems and the state would set its own limit if the feds fail to do so, in a letter that will be sent to the EPA, Cuomo announced.

Data on lead in tap water from public water systems may be available on the Internet from your local water authority.

«Residents of Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh have a right to know timely information about the condition of water in their public systems and private wells.

As various proposals for a broader public financing system are floated, members of the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate, as well as advocates that have pushed the measure over the years, are telegraphing they won't support any agreement they deem watered - down.

Following the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, and months without sufficient electricity, water and supplies, the public school system on the island now faces potential manmade devastation: closures of almost 350 public schools.

Riverkeeper is teaming up with partners in public health to promote routine maintenance of private septic systems, an important way homeowners can protect water quality.

The Times Union reported Sunday that the state Health Department was informed in August 2014 that the toxic chemical had contaminated the village water system, but it took months before the public was formally notified, and more than a year for the state to adopt the EPA's position that water should not be consumed.

Cuomo pointed to the state moving to install water filtration systems in the village as soon as the concerns were made public.

«The Environmental Facilities Corp. is pleased to assist New York City and 17 other local governments in their efforts to provide safe and reliable clean water systems, improving the environment and water quality, protecting public health, and creating jobs throughout the state,» said EFC President and CEO Matthew J. Driscoll.

And it's something Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes would be a disaster for the state, assuming billions of dollars in county Medicaid costs just as the state has pulled out of the recession and is trying to spend money on more education aid, free tuition at public colleges and upgrade aging water systems.

Officials in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York are expanding their efforts to find out how much of a potentially toxic chemical ended up in drinking water, from private wells to public water systems.

New York's two U.S. senators are pushing for safety standards for perfluorinated compounds and other unregulated industrial chemicals that have been found in public water systems.

Considered to be carcinogenic, it was previously found in public and private water systems in the towns of Hoosick and Petersburgh and the village of Hoosick Falls as well as in parts of neighboring Vermont.

«We will continue to advance the latest treatment technologies to ensure our public drinking water systems are safeguarded from these unregulated chemicals that threaten the health of citizens and the environment,» Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said in a news release announcing the approval of the Suffolk system.

«There's a «Q and A» where it says are health effects expected given the PFOA levels found in Hoosick Falls» public water system and the answer to that sentence is a one - word sentence: «No,» Gottfried said.

Parents at a high - performing public school in Brooklyn are protesting a city plan to change its admissions system, for fear it will water down the school's rigor.

In light of Flint, Michigan, in particular, that really captured the public's attention and said, «how can we have a water system that leaches lead, that poisons children, families and an entire city and not know about it?»&raquIn light of Flint, Michigan, in particular, that really captured the public's attention and said, «how can we have a water system that leaches lead, that poisons children, families and an entire city and not know about it?»&raquin particular, that really captured the public's attention and said, «how can we have a water system that leaches lead, that poisons children, families and an entire city and not know about it?»»

I was sitting at my desk at the EPA, buried in paper, and the phone rings, and an elected official asks if I have two to three million dollars to give to the Village of Hoosick Falls to install a carbon filtration system on their public water supply that serves thousands of people.

PFOA contamination has been found in the public and private water systems in Hoosick Falls and the towns of Hoosick and Petersburgh.

«The loss of heat and hot water is a humanitarian crisis, it's a state of emergency, it's a management failure of the highest magnitude,» said City Councilman Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat who grew up in public housing in the 1990s and said he's never seen the system in worse shape than it is now.

In addition, Burke, a Buffalo Democrat running for State Assembly, said that if he's elected, he will review state laws regarding public authorities to dismantle the ability for political appointees to «rig the system» when it comes to Water Authority leadership.

New York State officials are continuing to test public and private wells in the Rensselaer County community of Hoosick Falls as the village is beginning to flush contaminants from its water system.

The Oswego County town of Volney will receive about $ 2 million in federal grants and loans to help build new water lines for about 100 homes and get them on the public water system.

Mike Jones, a spokesman for the plant's owner, the Omaha Public Power District, said Fort Calhoun has a backup pump to provide water to the spent fuel in case the main system is lost.

With this discovery, public officials also worked to improve water and sanitation efforts, create drainage systems in densely populated areas, and educate the general public about how the disease is transmitted.

Not very appealing,» says Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, D.C. «Treated sewage may be used in certain water systems that then are used for irrigation.

Dr. Mona Hanna - Attisha, a pediatrician, director of a pediatric residency program in Flint, Mich. and the first person to raise public concerns about elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint area children, talked about the consequences of sounding the alarm over her research that found Flint's water system was leaching lead into drinking water and making her young patients sick.

Need for strong public outreach Agricultural production accounts for the greatest amount of global water consumption, and in this sector the authors suggest a variety of efficiency proposals such as improved irrigation systems and switching to crop varieties that consume less water.

«Involving the public in water policies is key to successful municipal water systems, study finds.»

It does so through regulations spelled out in the Clean Water Act, which include providing tax incentives for selling or giving wetlands to land trusts or other conservation groups, via cooperative efforts with state and local entities, and by acquiring wetlands outright to add acreage to public lands systems.

The health guideline of 0.02 ppb were exceeded manifold in a number of public water systems, first and foremost in California and Arizona.

Politicians, educators, and parents, long frustrated with the state of public education in New Orleans, suddenly had the opportunity, as the waters receded, to build, almost from scratch, a new school system.

Any school outside the public system tends to get labeled as «private,» in the same way that we tend to refer to all tissues as Kleenex, or all bubbly water as Perrier.

The Strategy Municipal bonds, also known as munis, are issued by states, cities, counties and other government entities below the federal level in order to raise money for public improvements like highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, sewer systems, water treatment plants and other such projects.

«A public utilities project to improve the water system backfired when chlorine used to disinfect new lines ended up in about 200 homes in an area northeast of Lake Conway.

Technical equipment includes such facilities as regular power supply, stand alone water supply system with additional water filtering, combined air conditioning system: individual conditioner in hotel accommodations and central conditioning in the premises of public use.

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