Sentences with phrase «resulting toxic water»

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Many processing stages result in large amounts of untreated toxic wastewater being carried into drinking water sources.

The state Department of Health has sent out the first results to 370 residents whose blood was tested for a toxic chemical found in Newburgh's water supply.

The state tested the farm's well field and said the results indicated the water in that area is free of the toxic chemical, perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, that was discovered in the village's water supply three years ago.

Prior studies on the canyon's environment suggest that water management techniques used by the Ancestral Puebloans during periods of drought eventually resulted in toxic levels of salinity (salt) in the water.

And at least one group of Chinese soils is approaching the pH values at which aluminum and manganese start leaching into surface water, with potentially toxic results.

This can be the result of environmental pollution, internal pollution from toxic chemicals in our foods and water or from emotional stress and strains of every day living,

Through this initiative, students from six local public middle schools monitor the waters around Mount Desert Island by regularly testing phytoplankton for toxic species, particularly the most prevalent one, Alexandrium, which is known to trigger red tide events — toxic discoloration of ocean waters — that can result in poisoning shellfish.

There's also the real danger of toxic material leaking into surface and ground water supplies as a result of poor oilfield operational practices.

Thank you Tenney Naumer; Perhaps the fact that EPA here is planning a conference on risks of drugs in drinking water will wake up some Americans to the fact that even here controls have become inadequate for wastes and sewage, resulting in our no longer being protected from the germs, toxics and drugs dumped out in organic wastes.

A project jointly undertaken by a group of Central Michigan University researchers and Dendritic Nanotechnologies Inc. has resulted in the creation of a groundbreaking new technology that can absorb toxic chemicals from ground water — a technology that could soon find its way into water purification systems.

Koch and its employees may not have intended to «leak» 91 metric tons of toxic benzene into the air and water around their refinery but their failure to install key protections and fully monitor their emissions resulted in their refinery loading 15 times the legal limit of the toxic substance into the environment.

Recently, problems with well water have been revealed in the Chatham - Kent area, where vibrations from turbine construction and operation have disturbed the shale bedrock resulting in toxic heavy metals such as arsenic contaminating water, making it undrinkable.

The result is a toxic output of contaminated water, questionable air quality and incredible waste.

A method used to extract natural gas from shale involving horizontal drilling, high pressures, lots of waters, lots of chemicals, resulting in toxic waste.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

Waste disposal and recycling — including, along China's coast, recycling Western e-waste — is often a highly toxic affair, resulting in severe soil, air and water pollution.

Venezia v. Coldwell Banker Sammis Realty (270 A.D. 2d 480)- buyer's action against seller for fraud for failing to disclose toxic contamination of untapped ground water beneath the property and surrounding area dismissed; cause of action against brokers severed; buyer's claim of fraud against seller was extinguished upon closing as a result of specific merger clause in contract of sale; moreover, buyer's failed to allege that seller made any representation about the condition of the land's subsurface or groundwater and did not allege that seller engaged in concealment or otherwise deceitful conduct designed to prevent the discovery of such contamination; seller is under no duty to speak; salesperson of one of the defendant real estate agencies represented to buyer that the house was in good condition