Sentences with phrase «sewage overflows»

For example, Albany still has wooden pipes that are more than a century old, while New York City dumps 30 billion gallons of sewage overflow into the waterways surrounding it.

After years of inaction, local and state officials are acting to stem the flow of sewage overflows into the badly polluted Scajaquada Creek.

A green roof, often called vegetated roofs or rooftop gardens, has become an increasingly popular choice for aesthetic and environmental reasons... For example rooftop gardens provide stormwater management, an appreciable benefit in cities with sewage overflow issues, while helping to cool the roof's surface as well as the air...

That also applies if sewage overflows and enters your home.

Katko, the only one of the group to accept the dare, said he immediately realized why swimming was banned - even though Willow Bay in Liverpool was on the opposite end of the lake from where sewage overflowed in Syracuse.

«We've spent hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up the Buffalo River but because of combined sewage overflows and the like, we're repolluting those waterways.»

The «Sewage Pollution Right to Know Act» would be an amendment to the environmental conservation law, requiring sewage treatment plants to notify the public within twenty - four hours of a raw sewage overflow.

For example rooftop gardens provide stormwater management, an appreciable benefit in cities with sewage overflow issues, while helping to cool the roof's surface as well as the air.

This polluted runoff can flow into our rivers and streams, or overwhelm local infrastructure to cause sewage overflows.

The call comes after the group updated a report analyzing data on reported sewage overflows.

But environmental groups say hundreds of sewage overflows occur around the state and deserve just as much attention.

It has said that in such instances, it has no control over how much sewage overflows, or what color it is.

«DEC's $ 5 million Water Quality Improvement Project grant will help eliminate sewage overflows to Rush Creek and Blasdell Creek, which improves water quality in Western New York.»

Sapienza said he didn't expect «significant» rate hikes in the near future, as DEP works on reducing flooding in parts of the city and having less sewage overflow into waterways when it rains.

Sewage overflows aside, Sandy doesn't appear to have dumped much more sediment and pollution into the waterways than a typical rainstorm would, he said.

This past winter, untreated sewage overflowed into the Hudson and East Rivers on multiple occasions, sometimes for as long as seven hours.

The Department of Environmental Protection has also been making huge efforts to curb sewage overflow.

They cause flooding, close schools, businesses, highways and airports, compromise roads and bridges, trigger sewage overflows, and routinely produce million of dollars in damage and kill people.

«For example in Narragansett Bay, we could distinguish between nitrogen caused by sewage overflows or vehicular pollution, power plants, fertilizers, or other sources and know how to attack the problem,» Hastings said.

Moreover, these communities are often subjected to urban flooding resulting from inadequate stormwater management or, worse still, infrastructure that combines stormwater with sewage overflows inundating people's homes and presenting risks to both health and property.

Although a Blue Flag now flaps in the wind at Toronto's Woodbine beach, its sewer used to overflow regularly into Lake Ontario, and the city had to build underground retention tanks to store sewage overflow until it could be sent for treatment.

«Engineering Firm Aims to Head Off Sewage Overflows «Crain's Detroit BusinessMarch 7, 2011 — Brooks Kushman client, Applied Engineering Technologies, Inc. was featured in the «Focus: Innovations: Patents» section of the March 7, 2011 issue of Crain's Detroit Business for creating a patented method to make sewer treatment systems more environmentally friendly.

Blue roofs are another effective way of preventing sewage overflow.

That also applies if sewage overflows and enters your home.

This week's TipSheet has the background on the problem of combined sewage overflow, as well as resources for finding out what's happening near you.

The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP, also known as the Deep Tunnel Project) was created to intercept storm water runoff and raw sewage overflow.

All the bacteria is associated with sewage overflows, wildlife feces or agricultural runoff.

Swim bans still will be issued when there is sewage overflow into the lake, as sometimes happens after particularly heavy rainfalls.

Sorry, budget bookers and buffet habitués — the time has come to stop pretending that cruise ships are anything but overcrowded nightmare tanks filled with unhealthy food and alarmingly common occurrences of sewage overflow.

RainGrid Network's smart cisterns catch rooftop runoff to prevent sewage overflows, flooded basements and pollution of our rivers and beaches, at half the cost of conventional infrastructure.

Sheehan noted that the sewage overflows have decreased based on a federal consent order.

An alarming report from one of New York's environmental watchdog shows nearly a sixth of the sewage overflows taking place across the state are happening in Erie County.

Upon returning to the boat, Katko realized his body had picked up the infamous Onondaga Lake stench — the product of sewage overflows, rotting algae and a toxic stew from the former Allied Chemical plant in Solvay.

The emissions from Sydney Harbour — including from urban runoff, leaf litter, soil decomposition and sewage overflow — were found to be very low compared to the highly polluted estuaries of Europe and Asia, which can emit up to 76,500 car CO2 equivalents each year.

From heat stress to sewage overflows, climate change promises to bring extreme weather that will challenge the ill - prepared U.S. public health infrastructure

The flooding, mold growth and sewage overflow that occurs as a result up our exposure to dangerous diseases.

New York City's broad sustainability plan, PlaNYC, includes substantial investments in green infrastructure to reduce stormwater and sewage overflows and protect drinking water supplies.

In many cities, even a fraction of an inch of rainfall already leads to flooding and sewage overflows.

That also applies if sewage overflows and enters your home.