Sentences with phrase «sewage outfalls»

Most researchers expected that the large lakes would dilute pharmaceuticals quickly, but a study this summer found the drugs contaminating Lake Michigan two miles from Milwaukee sewage outfalls.

The type of ESBL they found, called CTX - M, is common in bacteria in people, and the Uppsala study found that concentrations of resistant bacteria were higher close to the sewage outfalls from the stations.

When he began campaigning against a proposed sewage outfall near his favourite surfing spot on the coast of northern New South Wales, he never expected to find himself on the receiving end of the wrath of Australia's biggest engineering society.

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Under the proposal, County Executive Edward Mangano said Nassau would use 10 miles of the county - owned aqueduct that runs under Sunrise Highway to transport treated effluent from Bay Park to the ocean - outfall pipe at the county's Wantagh sewage - treatment plant.

E.P.A. officials also point out that 62 outfalls dump storm water and untreated sewage into the lake and that it is particularly dangerous after heavy rainfalls.

The effluent would then connect to a new pipe running south along the Wantagh State Parkway and to the Cedar Creek Sewage Treatment Plant in Wantagh, which uses an ocean outfall pipe to discharge treated wastewater three miles into the ocean.

But the best use of this major funding for Long Island would be a significant outlay toward the $ 550 - million cost of an ocean outfall pipe for the Bay Park sewage treatment plant.

Surfrider Foundation (Northern Beaches Branch) wants this election to be a turning point in Water Policy, to begin converting ocean outfall sewage plants into water reuse plants.

They'll swim, that is, if it doesn't rain within 48 hours of the race, which would vent raw sewage into the river from dozens of outfall pipes.