Sentences with phrase «taking water samples»

Calculating chemical feed dosages, timing out chemicals, and taking water samples to be analyzed.

OVERVIEW The Building Maintenance Assistant (BMA) will perform flushing of RO / DI system, taking water samples and performing basic building support...

We read of many expeditions to gather data — from a young David Keeling taking water samples from rivers from Big Sur to Chincoteague, to Taro Takahashi doing the same from Atlantic depths of up to three miles, to Scott Stine tramping the Owens salt flats of California to examine prehistoric stumps, and to George Denton helicoptering in to collect data from remote New Zealand glaciers.

Researchers aboard USS Pogy (SSN - 647) taking water samples, 2009.

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At the same time, fifth and sixth graders were taking water samples from all the streams and lakes in town to test for pollution.

A summer internship taking water samples at a plant in Butte that her father had helped build «made me realize I did not want to spend my life in the lab,» she says.

The researchers track attachment by taking water samples during a storm event.

We went back to South Africa in 1998, this time to Driefontein Mine, located about 40 miles southwest of Johannesburg, and took water samples, which are easier to work with than rock and less likely to be contaminated.

«If we assume an average microplastics concentration on the day we took the water sample in Rees, we can say that the Rhine contributes a daily load of more than 191 million plastic particles to the North Sea, and that only takes into account the surface.

Beginning in 2008, the EPA took water samples from residents» drinking water wells, finding hydrocarbons and traces of contaminants that seemed like they could be related to fracking.

Looking for a challenge, Dr Seo and his colleagues took water samples from Sydney Harbour and ran it through a commercially available water filter, coated with Graphair.

[Music plays and an image appears of Dr Dong Han Seo walking towards the sea and taking a water sample from the sea with the Sydney Harbour bridge in the background and text appears: Sydney Harbour's secret to life - saving water filtration]

Subsequently, the researchers took water samples at regular intervals over a period of six days in order to be able to evaluate the efficiency of the eDNA analysis over time as well.

The students learned to take water samples for pollutants in a nearby creek, and soon expanded their project, testing all the streams in the area and following the water's path from their landlocked town to Chesapeake Bay.

First and foremost, before taking a water sample, a person's hands must be clean, and free from odors, food grease and any other contaminants, including hand sanitizers.

A couple of years ago I went out with my rowing boat (I live 100 yards from the sea) and took water samples in a container from various depths and measured the temperature after leaving the water in the bucket for various timings.

However, because extra energy warmth surface water, you would require to take water samples from below to really understand the entire situation.

Not exact matches

The Chicago Park District closed 63rd Street Beach to swimming at midday after test results from water samples taken Tuesday indicated that E. coli bacteria levels were too high for safety, a district spokesman said.

NAPERVILLE — Trapshooters at the shuttered Sportsman's Park range must cool their heels for at least two more weeks while officials of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Naperville Park District await test results from ground water samples taken near the park.

The swimming bans, which will be in effect at least through Saturday morning, were enacted Friday after Lake Michigan water samples taken Thursday morning were tested and found to contain high levels of E. coli bacteria, which can indicate the presence of other harmful bacteria.

For the first time, Georgia Division of Environmental Protection will check the addresses where water systems take their samples to be sure those sites are at the highest risk for lead contamination.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation notified public officials today that water samples taken Saturday near the pier and the stairs to the beach contain high levels of a liver toxic produced by the blue - green algae.

After his father's death from cancer, Hickey took his own water samples from sources around town and sent them to a lab out of state that confirmed elevated levels of PFOA.

The Department of Environmental Conservation discovered high levels of perfluorooctane sulfonate, or PFOS, in well water samples taken near the airport earlier this month.

Nearly 10,000 samples taken from United Water's Haverstraw Pilot Facility have shown that the water meets or surpasses EPA standards, even during severe storms and turbulent river conditWater's Haverstraw Pilot Facility have shown that the water meets or surpasses EPA standards, even during severe storms and turbulent river conditwater meets or surpasses EPA standards, even during severe storms and turbulent river conditions.

The Rensselaer County village is currently dealing with a water contamination crisis after samples taken from public and private water wells detected perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, at levels above federal guidelines.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz stopped short of requiring his health department to mandate tap water sampling in homes where children are already diagnosed with high lead levels, but he did say that «maybe we do need to take additional steps, such as testing the water.»

The chemical PFOA has been detected in water samples taken from the Mohawk River near the Colonie landfill.

A report issued in April by the New York Attorney General's office found that microbeads were present in 74 percent of water samples taken from 34 municipal and private treatment plants across the state.

Water samples were taken by the treatment plant operators, to see if discharge limits were exceeded.

A water sample is taken from a cooling tower on the roof of Montefiore Medical Center.

«On arrival at the community, we interacted with the locals and samples were taken from their water sources and food supply.

MELISA consists of a water bath heater that incubates samples at a target temperature and analyzes them via images taken by mobile phone.

They took 31 water samples at 11 locations over a stretch of 820 kilometers.

With a commercially available, though slightly modified, water column sampler, water samples are taken from the bottom of the water body, where invasive gobies live.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

Cynthia: Such as: How do you design a deep - water vehicle that can without human eyes telling it specifically what to do, navigate deep under water, recognize coral, reach out, take a small sample and speed back up to the surface?

Another robot, operated remotely from a ship, allowed the team to get a closer look at specific features in and around the caldera, and to take rock and water samples.

In collaboration with the Geneva Water Ecology Service (SECOE) and the PhycoEco environmental office in La Chaux - de-Fonds, Switzerland, the researchers analyzed the 90 or so samples taken in different rivers in Switzerland and determined their ecological status using the DI - CH.

She bends down to take a murky water sample, then holds the cup up to the light.

He recently took that experience to Nepal, where he collected water samples from the Himalayan glacier - fed Kosi River as part of an expedition led by the Mountain Institute.

«SUPR - REMUS lets us take discrete samples in the water, in a way that nets can't do in shallow water,» said Annette Govindarajan, lead author on the paper.

Two years ago the drill ship Joides Resolution went back to the same waters off Peru where Parkes's first samples had been taken.

Scientists took nearly 200,000 water, plankton, atmosphere particles and gases samples in 313 points of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans at depths of up to 6,000 meters.

«I could imagine that the water samples currently taken by cantonal or federal authorities on a daily or even hourly basis for chemical screening could also be used to record biodiversity,» speculates Altermatt.

Well - known techniques that took place in Flint include preflushing water from taps the night before sampling and using small - mouthed bottles, which artificially lowers lead concentrations in samples, as well as failing to identify and test homes known to have sources of lead in their plumbing from lead services lines or older brass components that contain significant amounts of lead.

The rule, enacted in 1994, requires cities to monitor drinking water at customer taps and take action to reduce corrosion if certain numbers of samples contain lead or copper above specific levels.

The researchers studied water samples taken during cruises by Chinese ice breaker XueLong, (meaning «snow dragon») in summer 2008 and 2010 from the upper ocean of the Arctic's marginal seas to the basins as far north as 88 degrees latitude, just below the North Pole, as well as data from three other cruises.

After the city detected elevated lead in the Walters family's water, and she was refused help by MDEQ, Mrs. Walters took her case to EPA Region 5 employee Miguel Del Toral, who collaborated with our lab to sample her tap water.