Sentences with phrase «waste discharged into»

The water quality at our beaches is threatened by pollution from urban and agricultural runoff, sewage spills and overflows, and waste discharged into the ocean by industry, sewage treatment plants and power plants.

All of waste discharged into the canal over time has made the Gowanus Canal into one of the nation's most seriously contaminated bodies of water.

Not exact matches

As an example, Klein points to a 2003 incident in California when a Crystal cruise ship discharged 138,000 litres of waste water 14 km offshore into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

A polluter finds it advantageous to discharge his wastes into public land, air, or water.

We believe we are truly giving back to the earth by turning waste into something productive, and we are also decreasing the amount of CO2 gases discharged in the air.»

Indian industry can adopt a more responsible attitude in general while discharging waste water into water bodies or sewers to reduce contamination of surface and ground water.

The law requires any industry that discharges wastes into a public water supply to pay their pro rata share of treatment cost.

Currently, liquid waste generated within the region are discharged into open water bodies due to the lack of a facility to treat it.

President Mahama said these when he commissioned the new Lavender Hill, an ultra modern facility which will end the historic practice of discharging faecal waste directly into the sea and the Korle lagoon.

Since 1902 faecal waste generated within the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area has been directly discharged into the sea at portion of land famously called the Lavender Hill.

This was further worsened by the direct discharge of liquid waste from Accra's sewerage system into the Korle lagoon after the Mudor treatment plant broke down.

Federal prosecutors say a slaughterhouse in Orange County that supplies kosher chicken to Orthodox Jews discharged chicken parts and other waste into storm drains and sewers.

There are fewer injection wells in the East, however, so much of the waste from drilling in the Marcellus Shale was initially discharged into surface waters.

Phosphates can be extracted from waste water before it is discharged into waterways, and the recycled phosphate used to manufacture washing powders.

This waste, which can be 30 to 70 percent of the incoming volume of fish, is often discarded or discharged into nearby waters.

British polluters discharge more than twice as much heavy metal waste into the northeast Atlantic as the country's nearest rival, according to data collected by the Paris Convention on marine pollution and publicised this week by Greenpeace.

«TARP consists of 110 miles of tunnels and reservoirs, which are actually old limestone quarries that capture and hold storm water and raw sewage until it can be treated at waste water treatment plants and discharged into the canals and rivers.»

DEP passed new regulations during Hanger's tenure that required all new discharges into streams to be treated to drinking water quality, but facilities already permitted to take the waste were not affected.

Flooding of this area might slow down or thwart the treatment process and can cause waste discharge to back up into your home.

Those section conclude that «significant gaps remain» in regulation despite updates in some states, and they describe exemptions for fracking wastes from the Resource Recovery and Response Act's hazardous waste requirements, from the Clean Water Act's comprehensive permit program for discharges into surface waters, and from the Safe Drinking Water Act (which regulates groundwater pollution).

So whether we are talking about the extraction of natural resources from the environment, or the discharge of waste into the environment, they both follow from the same underlying cause; these activities are all directed by the underlying landscape of incentives.

Like last month's stay on the water discharge rule, a potential stay on the Coal Ash Rule extends unconscionable risk for the people who live near coal ash pits, which can rupture or leak toxics into drinking water, while pandering to corporate utilities that have gotten away with dangerous waste handling for decades.

This is borne out by the Eco-Label criteria which found that the four environmental problems to which paints contribute the most are: • petroleum consumption for the production of titanium dioxide, resins and solvents • global warming through emissions of CO2 and VOCs resulting respectively from titanium dioxide production and from solvent paint application • atmospheric acidification due to CO2 and sulphur from titanium dioxide processing • discharges of waste into water due to titanium dioxide processing.