Sentences with phrase «water quality funds»

If approved in the Legislature, the resolution would fund the unit — responsible for drilling monitoring wells to evaluate groundwater pollution across the county at sites like the former Grumman facility in Calverton — using money from the water quality fund, a fund established by a voter - approved, quarter - penny sales tax.

Mr. Faulk said Mr. Romaine is drawing up a bill that would move all nine jobs in the well - drilling unit over to the water quality fund, funded by a voter - approved, quarter - penny sales tax.

MONTPELIER The Act 73 Working Group released its recommendations last week for long - term water quality funding to meet the state's clean water goals.

Last month, Group for the East End president Robert DeLuca said it «makes sense» to restore the «integrity» of the water quality fund.

But instead of going back into the water quality fund, those reimbursements were being placed into the general fund to be used for any county purpose.

He added the state has reimbursed the county for salaries paid for from the water quality fund.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone is considering legislation that would pay back some $ 55 million that environmentalists say lawmakers «raided» from a water quality fund.

Not exact matches

The deal will put 58 million Australian dollars into fighting the starfish, with the rest going to improving water quality, funding research into reef restoration, and monitoring damage to the reef.

The grants will fund innovative programs that improve urban water quality, enhance storm water management and protect and restore urban waterways.

Building better communities Better communities come when governments work together to fund infrastructures such as roads, water, schools and transit that are the framework for a community's Quality of Life.

To support the Sustainable Winegrowing Program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service has awarded a $ 475,000 matching fund grant for the development of air and water quality innovations.

This funding will support research to help mitigate and stop devastating crop diseases, and improve food safety and water quality.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone has urged members of the county's congressional delegation to help secure federal funding to implement projects designed to combat harmful algal blooms and improve water quality.

As Albany lawmakers work to extend the Peconic Community Preservation Fund to 2050 and break off a portion of its proceeds to protect the region's water quality, Southold Planning Board members want the Town Board to know they're not fully supporting the moves.

Legislator Jay Schneiderman (I - Montauk), who voted against the 2014 budget which included dipping into the fund, said «I am certainly encouraged that there is an agreement, and I think we all need to work together on achieving water quality goals.

A water purification project in Accabonac Harbor — the first in East Hampton Town to be funded by the portion of the community preservation fund that voters approved last year for water quality improvement — is moving ahead, Kim Shaw, the town's...

The additional $ 2.57 billion will go to fund water quality improvements, said Andrew Brent, a spokesman for the mayor.

East End state Assemblyman Fred Thiele (I - Sag Harbor) called the proposal «bold and unprecedented,» noting that it builds on the recent extension of the Community Preservation Fund, a 2 percent tax on real estate transfers in the five East End towns that was enacted in the late 1990s and now features a provision mandating that 20 percent of those monies be used toward water quality initiatives.

In the near future, 20 percent of all Community Preservation Funds generated from East End real estate transfers will also be set aside for water quality initiatives.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone's newly proposed Water Quality Protection Fee, while still being developed, appears at first glance to be a realistic way for the county to begin funding the connection of thousands of homes to these much - needed modern systems.

«This administration has taken aggressive action to address water quality issues across New York, creating the Water Quality Rapid Response Team, enacting the historic $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act and record $ 300 million Environmental Protection Fund,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi in a statement released Wednesday afterwater quality issues across New York, creating the Water Quality Rapid Response Team, enacting the historic $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act and record $ 300 million Environmental Protection Fund,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi in a statement released Wednesday aftquality issues across New York, creating the Water Quality Rapid Response Team, enacting the historic $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act and record $ 300 million Environmental Protection Fund,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi in a statement released Wednesday afterWater Quality Rapid Response Team, enacting the historic $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act and record $ 300 million Environmental Protection Fund,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi in a statement released Wednesday aftQuality Rapid Response Team, enacting the historic $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act and record $ 300 million Environmental Protection Fund,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi in a statement released Wednesday afterWater Infrastructure Act and record $ 300 million Environmental Protection Fund,» said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi in a statement released Wednesday afternoon.

Jessica Ottney Mahar, policy director for the Nature Conservancy, called Cuomo's $ 2 billion proposal to improve water quality around the state «amazing,» adding: «The level of funding is exciting, and frankly, it surprised me.»

Advocates for the Great Lakes are meeting in Washington, D.C., this week to push for continued funding of cleanup programs and discuss water quality issues such as algae blooms and oil transportation.

At 10 a.m., Assembly Standing Committees on Environmental Conservation and Health, and the Subcommittee on Oversight of the DEC, hold a joint public hearing to examine water quality issues and to review implementation of the $ 2.5 billion in water infrastructure funding contained in the 2017 - 18 budget, 250 Broadway, Manhattan.

Southold Town Supervisor Scott Russell said that because Suffolk County has not addressed the matter in a meaningful way, and since a sweeping water quality bill stalled in the Legislature last year, funding from Albany is needed to give local municipalities more power to introduce modern septic systems to their own towns.

Kellogg said that for her and her running mates, the big challenges facing Hurley are, «Making a change in our local government, protecting the quality of life that we have in Hurley as development pressures move up the Thruway, protecting our water and the beautiful scenic qualities of our town, and maintaining our low tax rates as NYS mandates additional responsibilities to the localities without providing funding (at the same time that they cap our annual budget increases) and as we get additional pressures from New York City to reduce their tax contributions for the reservoir property.»

Riverkeeper Water Quality Advocate Tracy Brown: «To have the federal government continue to cut the state revolving fund monies that are available to support repair and maintenance is really gonna have a direct impact on water quality and it's gonna increase the number of sewage infrastructure failures and the amount of pollution in our waterways.&rWater Quality Advocate Tracy Brown: «To have the federal government continue to cut the state revolving fund monies that are available to support repair and maintenance is really gonna have a direct impact on water quality and it's gonna increase the number of sewage infrastructure failures and the amount of pollution in our waterways.Quality Advocate Tracy Brown: «To have the federal government continue to cut the state revolving fund monies that are available to support repair and maintenance is really gonna have a direct impact on water quality and it's gonna increase the number of sewage infrastructure failures and the amount of pollution in our waterways.&rwater quality and it's gonna increase the number of sewage infrastructure failures and the amount of pollution in our waterways.quality and it's gonna increase the number of sewage infrastructure failures and the amount of pollution in our waterways.»

But as a former environmental commissioner, he said, «I understand the importance of those funds to municipalities across New York state to improve water quality.»

Also included were significant increases in the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) and the establishment of a $ 200 million program to assist municipalities in funding water quality infrastructure projects.

He supports the policy position of Paul Giardina, his running mate on the Republican ticket, of utilizing the federal Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Water State Revolving Fund to pay for water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation Water State Revolving Fund to pay for water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation fFund to pay for water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation water - quality remediation efforts including replacement of failing septic systems, rather than the community preservation fundfund.

Dedicating the state money to the rebate program would allow the town to advance other water quality improvement projects, or make additional land purchases, using the preservation fund money, he said.

A Watershed Management Planning endeavor is currently underway to make the region more eligible for water quality project implementation funds in partnership with Erie County and Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper (formerly Riverkeeper).

Its protection ensures ongoing timber resource protection, safeguards water quality of the Salmon River and allows for continued public access to state sanctioned snowmobile trails and other outdoor recreation,» according to Conservation Fund press release.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone today urged members of the Suffolk County congressional delegation to help secure federal funding that helps implement projects designed to combat harmful algal blooms and improve water quality.

While that has meant more money for open space and water quality, it's also meant spending for future years will be needed in order to provide additional resources for the fund, the report found.

Additionally we secured $ 2.5 billion in water quality improvement funding, an important down payment on the future of our environment and the health of New Yorkers.

Those recouped monies could go a long way, he said, like funding an East End medicine disposal program to help improve water quality.

Last year, the state OK'd a plan that would allow East End towns to use a certain amount of its Community Preservation Funds on water quality matters — if they so choose.

Finally, the referenda in the East End towns to extend the Community Preservation Fund (CPF) another 20 years and allow up to 20 percent of the money raised to go to improving water quality passed — by 69.5 percent on Shelter Island.

• Erie County's Natural Habitat Pocket Parks along the Buffalo River, with staff from the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning helping to secure federal Great Lake Restoration Initiative Funding to provide better access to the River, improve the water quality and provided habitat for wildlife;

Mr. Giardina, he said, «is the only person I ever saw speak publicly against the use of 20 percent of the fund for water quality; he thinks we should borrow the money from the federal government.»

A water purification project in Accabonac Harbor — the first in East Hampton Town to be funded by the portion of the community preservation fund that voters approved last year for water quality improvement — is moving ahead, Kim Shaw, the town's natural resources director, told the town board this week.

Also in the email were references to state funding already given to the cause, including funds for the Dutch Hollow Brook Implementation Project, a water quality monitoring and agricultural water quality project, and a whole lake watershed plan.

The parties» candidates also hold opposing views on the community preservation fund's provision, approved by voters last year, that would allocate up to 20 percent of its revenues to water quality improvement projects.

«I don't understand the motivation for trying to cut off something of benefit to both sides,» says Martin Briggs, a hydrogeology graduate student at Syracuse University in New York, who spent two months at Fudan University in Shanghai on a fellowship funded by the NSF to learn about water quality.

These cornerstones of environmental protection have implemented pollution control programs, set water quality standards, and funded waste water treatment facilities in Nevada.

Released last week, the initial budget outline envisions dramatic cuts in funds for monitoring air and water quality, climate change and more.

On January 23, an EPA employee leaked that agency staff were instructed to put a freeze on all grants and contracts, which delegate and fund state efforts such as water quality testing and air pollution monitoring.

The federal minister for the environment, Greg Hunt, says a series of conditions on the development, including funding for programmes to support the health of the reef, will mean that the water quality will actually improve by 150 per cent.

Funding for the Healthy Lawns and Healthy Waters Program is provided in part through Clean Water Act grants from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.