Sentences with phrase «water near the plant»

In Fukushima and adjacent prefectures, the Japanese government is reporting radio ¬ active contamination in sea water near the plant and in the food and water supply.

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Jeff Brooks, a spokesman for the company, contends water quality near the coal - burning plant is good and local agriculture and wildlife weren't affected by the spill.

As it happens, EnCana itself has invested in a specialized $ 10 - million plant near its Peace River, B.C., operations that treats «sour» water from a saline aquifer for use in its shale drilling.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Tests conducted on water being dumped into the Pacific Ocean near the Fukushima nuclear power plant have found levels of radioactivity millions of times more than is normal in water.

We drove back the by the fields planted in corn, nopal cactus and agave that we had passed, found the irrigation canal, and followed it until it ended near a small communal cattle watering hole.

Located near the port city of Cochin to provide water transport of the products, the Indian location plants AMES factories on opposite sides of the globe — and expedites product shipments to the entire world.

Solar radiation will heat the water, which will keep the ground warmer near the plants.

Nature Foundation SA has begun pumping Commonwealth environmental water on to the floodplains and wetlands that support vulnerable plant and animal life near the Murray River National Park and downstream of Chowilla floodplain in South Australia's Riverland.

So is insisting on near perfect grades, outstanding athletic achievement or building water plants in third world countries to beef up college resumes.

Among the project's first priorities are: the reconstruction of a wall that abuts a water - purification plant near 79th Street and the creation of anchored walls with steel sheet pilings along Solidarity Drive — from the John G. Shedd Aquarium to south of the Adler Planetarium — and along Burnham Park between 26th Street to 55th Street.

City Comptroller Scott Stringer faulted the prevalence of sewer treatment plants, waste transfer stations and depots in poorer communities on long - standing city policy to place them near water.

Kinisky said Saint - Gobain has consistently taken responsibility to help find and fund alternate water supplies, or provide filtering systems, in areas where PFOA and other perflourinated chemicals have been detected in groundwater near its current and former manufacturing plants.

Saint - Gobain has operated a plant on McCaffrey Street in Hoosick Falls since the 1990s that has been a focus of the contamination because it's near the village's water treatment plant.

Hickey researched a man - made chemical, perfluorooctanoic acid, that has been used since the 1940s to make industrial and household products, like nonstick coatings and heat - resistant wiring, including at a factory owned by Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics near the village water treatment plant.

The municipal water supply in Hoosick Falls, a village in Rensselaer County near the Vermont border, was found to have been contaminated with the chemical PFOA from a nearby plastics plant run by Saint - Gobain.

Although the source of the contamination has not been identified, officials have focused on the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant, which is located near several wells that supply Hoosick Falls» water treatment plant.

Officials at the FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the pPlant near Oswego are investigating why fuel rods in the reactor's core are leaking radiation and while not considered an emergency, it could potentially spread contaminated water to other parts of the plantplant.

A sign near the water treatment plant on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2015, in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)

«DECs evaluation of this data has led to the conclusion that it will be necessary to sample additional wells located between the Bethpage Water District wells and the highest sample location near... the former plant site,» DEC acting Commissioner Basil Seggos said in a letter to Northrop Grumman.

The shrimp represent centimeter - sized swimmers, including krill and shrimplike copepods, found throughout the world's oceans that may together be capable of mixing ocean layers — and delivering nutrient - rich deep waters to phytoplankton, or microscopic marine plants, near the surface, the researchers suggest.

On Sept. 9, 2011, high temperatures tripped a transmission line near Yuma, Ariz., sparking a chain of events that shut down the San Onofre nuclear power plant, caused the release of untreated sewage and required San Diego residents to boil their drinking water.

Lithuania has a 2500 - megawatt nuclear power plant at Ignalina with RBMK graphite / water reactors of the type which exploded at Chernobyl and caused a scare last month at Sosnovy Bor, near St Petersburg (This Week, 28 March).

Sedimentaryrocks near the earth's surface contain interconnected spaces for water toinfiltrate and bacteria to grow and move, plus the remains of dead plants andalgae once at the surface — the apparent food of many organisms.

«The rain is the same everywhere, but because termites allow water to penetrate the soil better, the plants grow on or near the mounds as if there were more rain,» Tarnita said.

In regions with hot rocks and plentiful water near the surface, building massive power plants is straightforward.

It employs reclaimed water for its cooling and was built near existing transmission lines on what used to be farmland rather than the pristine desert areas nearby that have provoked opposition to some other planned solar power plants.

For this reason nuclear power plants are typically sited near large bodies of water, often seas or estuaries.

The utility said it would to do the same on the Djerdap 2 hydro plant later in the day, which would cause an increase in Danube water levels near the border with Bulgaria.

Scientists working at the Hellisheidi geothermal power plant near Reykjavik, Iceland, were able to pump the plant's carbon dioxide - rich volcanic gases into deep underground basalt formations, mix them with water and chemically solidify the carbon dioxide.

On Nov. 4, 2008, two divers were cleaning sludge and silt from an entry bay for water pumps that serve Constellation Energy Nuclear Group's Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant near Oswego, N.Y.

Among the pending applications: a plan to build two additional boiling - water reactors at the South Texas Project power plant near Houston.

The browning of the forest canopy is consistent with observed decreases in the amount of water available to plants, whether that is in the form of rainfall, water stored in the ground, water in near - surface soils, or water within the vegetation.

During the New Year's flood, roughly 7,000 buildings near St. Louis were damaged, two interstate highways were closed for several days, the community of Valley Park was evacuated, and two Metropolitan Sewer District plants were swamped so that sewage was dumped directly into the water.

Planting perennial crops such as switchgrass near creeks increased greenhouse gas mitigation, water quality, beneficial insects and energy production, though it decreased total net income of farms in the study area by roughly $ 30 million.

The most widely developed type of geothermal power plant (known as hydrothermal plants) are located near geologic «hot spots» where hot molten rock is close to the earth's crust and produces hot water.

PFOA entered the local water table near the DuPont plant and contaminated the potable water supply used by more than 100,000 people.

DuPont agreed to install water filtration systems in the six contaminated water districts near its plant as well as pay $ 70 million for research.

Most of the research has been done on folks with very high exposures, including those who lived near chemical plants in West Virginia and Ohio, where drinking water had become contaminated.

i like the out doors very much and like to cook, plant a garden every year and just being near the water...

Intrigued by school gardens near his home in New Mexico, Ancona created this large - format book that follows the development of a garden and the students» responses to it, from plans to planting to watering to harvest.

If your dog is playing in or near water that contains plants, do not let him eat the vegetation.

You'll find plenty of other local sites, activities and attractions to explore near our all - suites hotel in Kansas City like the Worlds of Fun amusement Park, Oceans of Fun Water Park, Belvoir Winery and: Ford Motor Company's Claycomo Assembly Plant Bartle Hall Convention Center William Jewel College Arrowhead Stadium Kauffman Stadium You can also easily get to a variety of restaurants nearby.

We are nearing completion of our innovative on - site desalinization plant, which will allow us to become even more sustainable by turning sea water into fresh water for use throughout the resort.

In Leaping Lizards, a patch of Piranha Plants, which Morton, Luigi and Toad navigate their way through on the way to Water Land, is growing near the Mushroom Palace.

I can still remember the water stains on the wooden floor near the windows where John Cage once had his plants, and seeing Jasper John's 0 through 9 (1960) hanging on the wall.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

The report card released by the American Society of Civil Engineers on the state of the nation's infrastructure gave a grade of D - to sewers and water treatment plants — very near failing.

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Given the nuclear solution requires new reactor designs yet to be built even for demonstration and test purposes, and then the complexities of siting nuclear power plants near the calling water they need while defending them against flood waters makes construction of tested designs take a decade.