Sentences with phrase «water pipes at»

And they're certainly not spending all of their time fixing broken toilets and answering calls about busted water pipes at 2 am.

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez introduced legislation Wednesday to ban the sale of hookah - related products including shisha and water pipes at city businesses that make less than half of their revenue from tobacco sales.

Our lumbering black Lab, a totally loveable Scooby Doo of a dog, managed somehow to break a water pipe at the side of the house while gallivanting around the garden.

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It's hard to articulate how major a f — up this is, but Kyle Mizokami does a good job at Popular Mechanics: Indian authorities ordered the pipe replacement because they «likely felt that pipes exposed to corrosive seawater couldn't be trusted again, particularly pipes that carry pressurized water coolant to and from the ship's 83 megawatt nuclear reactor.»

A handful of citizen volunteers digging up the correct information and piping it through blogs, social media, letters to the editor and conversations at coffee shops and on door steps to protect what we value — drinking water, schools, parks, key natural habitat and recreational areas.

Local residents collect water from a broken pipe at an area damaged by Hurricane Maria, in Cayey, Puerto Rico, September 29, 2017 REUTERS / Alvin Baez #puertorico #reuters #reutersphotos #hurricanemaria #hurricane #disaster

Local residents collect water from a broken pipe at an area damaged by Hurricane Maria, in Cayey, Puerto Rico, September 29, 2017.

When children at play try to stop the flow of a spring by placing their hands over the overflow pipe, the water spurts out from under their fingers.

tick... tick... tick of hot water pipes in the wall at 3:17 AM.

Yet due to age and lack of maintenance, the pipes, pumping 20 million gallons of oil and natural gas daily, are at risk of bursting — and therefore polluting the drinking water of the neighboring 30 million Americans and Canadians.

He must know stresses and strains, temperatures at which pipes will freeze, laws which govern steam, hot water, expansion, contraction, and so forth.

Thames Water workers help distribute bottled water, at a bottled water station in Hampstead, north London, for one of the thousands of people in the London area who were left without water for more than 36 hours after extreme weather caused burst pWater workers help distribute bottled water, at a bottled water station in Hampstead, north London, for one of the thousands of people in the London area who were left without water for more than 36 hours after extreme weather caused burst pwater, at a bottled water station in Hampstead, north London, for one of the thousands of people in the London area who were left without water for more than 36 hours after extreme weather caused burst pwater station in Hampstead, north London, for one of the thousands of people in the London area who were left without water for more than 36 hours after extreme weather caused burst pwater for more than 36 hours after extreme weather caused burst pipes.

Add a teaspoon more of water at a time if the icing is too thick to pipe.

Baking bread in lighter tins, cleaning pipes with ice instead of hot water, and using microwaves to dry fruit gums and jellies: these are just some of the ideas being explored by the Carbon Trust and food industry leaders to cut energy use and carbon emissions at UK manufacturing sites.

I would really like to try this, the only thing holding me back is how to clean the shower plug hole / waste - pipe, as I don't think hot water would flush it all away — it's bound to cool down and solidify at some point, leaving the worry of blockage.

Underneath sinks or near leaking water pipes are common areas because the moisture satisfies rats» requirement of at least an ounce of water daily to survive.

Each puff will have a tail at the top where you piped it, so dip your finger into a small bowl of water and smooth the tail for a perfect round.

Many of the pre-World Cup fears of collapsing and unfinished stadia have not come to pass, but there was one structural issue at the stadium in Natal today when a burst water pipe flooded the media room.

But at least we are out of that very long and very cold snap that had us up through the night, running water to avoid frozen pipes, filling the stove to stay warm, and checking on the animals out in the barn.

Anyone who lives in a home with lead pipes may be at risk, and since more than 80 percent of the city's housing stock was built before they were banned, lead is potentially leaching into the drinking water of thousands of children.

Please be careful and order bottled water at these places even though St Kitts has good piped water in general.

In other action, the board approved a $ 5,910.50 contract with DeKaf Construction Inc. of Rolling Meadows to install a pipe and inlet structure at Cannon Crossings park, 1675 Nicholson Drive, which would divert water from a soccer field into a nearby sewer.

Construction of the school, which is being built at Chicago and Prospect Avenues in Clarendon Hills, is proceeding under a September storm - water agreement that calls for eight retention basins and a 36 - inch pipe that would divert storm water to the Hinsdale Golf Course.

Plans to replace the mile - long pipe follows a history of nuisance leaks, water - valve failures and «a significant number» of water main breaks in Orland Hills Gardens and part of Old Orland, John Ingram, director of infrastructure maintenance for the village, said at the Aug. 20 village board finance committee meeting...

The village board approved a study in November looking at areas with separated pipes for storm water and sanitary water.

The Indian Point nuclear power plant has a long history of accidental radioactive leaks and spills: spent fuel pools at the plant housing toxic nuclear waste have been leaking since the 1990s; corroded buried pipes have sprung radioactive leaks; tanks have spilled hundreds of gallons radioactively contaminated water; and malfunctioning valves and pumps have leaked radionuclide - laden water.

A city spokesman on Friday said there was no threat to the drinking water «at this time» because the algae blooms were near the shore and the intake pipes are out toward the middle of the lake.

Raw, untreated water runs from a pipe at the city of Auburn's water treatment plant, where the Cayuga County Health Department collects its samples

Town Supervisor Charles Harrington said a water pipe broke to a toilet at the Town Hall in August, flooding the building.

Fire protection piping at Indian Point's Unit 2 reactor broke and leaked and though it resulted in a loss of water pressure to the fire suppression system, inspectors from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission determined it was of «very low safety significance,» according to the N.R.C. report.

The Parks Department has revised plans to run a water pipe under the garden near Isham Park and will instead snake the pipe under the sidewalk at Park Terrace East, officials said Tuesday night.

At an April town - hall meeting in Staten Island, residents quizzed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio over traffic - clogged streets, broken water pipes and hotels packed with homeless people.

Failing infrastructure pipes and protect drinking water at its source.

Rather than a screen at the end of the well pipe being plugged, the geology in the draw area is getting plugged, and the water does not cover the pump intake.

Advocates have called for $ 800 million to fund clean water infrastructure since the state's own estimates put the cost to communities in replacing aging pipes and sewers at more than $ 30 billion over the next few decades.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Anticipating a «feeding frenzy» over New York state's $ 5 billion windfall, a dozen public officials, union leaders and contractors gathered this morning at Syracuse City Hall to advocate spending all of the money to repair roads, bridges, water pipes and other infrastructure.

1968: The Strand Theater at 110 N. Pearl St. in Albany had been damaged by an explosion early Jan. 14 which broke a pipe and spilled about three feet of water into basement rooms containing its furnace and air conditioning systems.

The government for all its reach can't be everywhere and can't be at every, you know, outflow pipe or smoke stack and the environmental groups seem to be doing a better job, of kind of pointing to problematic outflows of water pollution and saying, hey this is a problem can we clean this up and then the government can in some cases step in and in other cases...

Ultra-strong flexible pipes, remote flow - control valves, and vibration - resistant drill rigs can protect the prospecting equipment against corrosion, thermal shock, and crushing water pressure at the ocean floor.

At all hours men smoke water pipes in city cafés; any woman in one of these qawas would almost certainly be a foreigner.

Mulley had spent months looking into why a pipe carrying cooling water at the Byron nuclear plant in Illinois had rusted so badly that it burst.

A seven - inch - wide pipe on display at the exhibit resembles modern - day conduits and probably carried about four gallons of water a minute.

One study in the Journal conducted by researchers at the CDC finds that even relatively modest improvements — such as providing more latrines and community water pipes and disinfecting water with chlorine — could over the next two decades prevent up to 78,567 cases of cholera.

Published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that the species most resistant to drought are those that are better at withstanding stress to the water transport system — composed of internal pipes known as xylem — that carries water from the roots to the crown.

At other times, the children were successful in retrieving the reward despite using a non-functional tool; for example, when using a water container that self - fills through an inlet pipe, it doesn't matter whether the tool is functional as the water is rising anyway.

Water pressure and thermal shock are intense as oil from the reservoir bubbles up into the well at 140 degrees Fahrenheit, only to hit near - freezing temperatures at the ocean floor, which can cause it to coagulate in the pipes.

The reduced density of the water - gas - mixture allows that deep water is pushed out of the pipe at the upper end to form a fountain above the water table, where gas is released to the atmosphere.

Now the scientists installed a degasing pipe which is the heart of the new pilot plant: Deep water enters a pipe at 61m depth.

Piping at the top periodically releases water mixed with fertilizer, dampening the felt and nourishing the plants.

This phenomenon, called von Kármán vortex shedding, affects any elongated structure caught in wind or water currents such as lampposts, high rises and the long vertical pipes used for drilling oil at sea.