Sentences with word «waterbody»

In contrast, unionids are still heavily infested in waterbodies dominated by zebra mussels.

But there's an exception - the big «meat ants» — that are so common around the edges of waterbodies in tropical Australia.

Priority will be given to projects located on or in close proximity to waterbodies where the shoreline is 50 percent or higher in public ownership.

«Dozens of New York Lakes, as well as waterbodies nation - wide, are plagued with harmful algae blooms.

DEP is also exploring the use of green infrastructure to reduce polluted runoff from reaching waterbodies through the separate storm sewer system.

In a recent study, engineering researchers at Waterloo found that small wetlands have a more significant role to play than larger ones in preventing excess nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizer from reaching waterbodies such as the Great Lakes.

In a follow up email, EPA spokesperson Betsaida Alcantara noted, «All of the permits are for surface coal mining activities impacting streams, wetlands, and other waterbodies.

Once established AIS, such as zebra mussels and spiny waterflea, can spread easily to other inland waterbodies through the State's extensive canal system and through recreational boating and angling.

Targeted waterbodies must be located wholly within New York State.

The Hudson Valley summit focuses on four of the 12 priority waterbodies that Cuomo says were chosen as the state's most problematic.

Cuomo says the idea is to start with 12 of the most problematic waterbodies, study them, and determine what is happening to cause the HABs and address the problem.

Once established, aquatic invasive species, such as spiny waterflea and Eurasian water milfoil, can rapidly spread through connecting waterbodies or by «hitchhiking» on the vessels of recreational boaters and anglers.

The proposed repeal doesn't dispute the reasoning behind which waterbodies are considered protected by the Clean Water Act under the 2015 rule.

In addition to the nutrients which can cause overenrichment of receiving waterbodies, sewage carries an array of potentially disease - causing microbes known as pathogens.

Finally, some human viruses and bacteria are resistant to chlorination at sewage treatment plants, and they are discharged with the treated effluent into nearby waterbodies.

We can build up numbers of meat ants beside waterbodies at the critical times when small toads are emerging — either by laying out baits to attract the ants to the right spots, or by planting trees that the ants like to build their nests beside.

The series on display in her solo exhibition Confluence also draws upon waterbodies as they relate to the environment and the people who inhabit the land.

Lake Tanganyika is one of those great waterbodies that can make you continually scratch your head — its complex, confusing, and at times counter-intuitve — all the things that create interest and challenge.

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has reportedly requested that EPA clarify whether the «significance» of a connection between smaller waterbodies and larger downstream waters marks a technical or policy issue — echoing questions raised by a coalition of regulated stakeholders, including NAR, who are concerned that the agency may not be adequately weighing the issue as it works to clarify jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act (CWA).

Moorings and platforms are structures that allow water scientists to position instruments, collect samples, and take long - term measurements in waterbodies.

Georgia spent many hours out in the hot sun - exposed edges of waterbodies, watching how ants and toads interact.

The cry for help has been thunderous especially as some water bodies residents depended on have all been polluted by galamsey operators — small scale mining works who have muddied the waterbodies.

«The minerals are our property and so are the lands, waterbodies and forest reserves,» he said, adding he will protect them from destruction.

He said his government is not against mining but is against the illegal manner it is done which ends up polluting the country's waterbodies.

It's one of only six waterbodies in the state with such a warning.

Assisting the Western New York Stormwater Coalition in reaching out to inform and involve the public in assisting their municipalities in protecting and improving water quality in our waterbodies

Five days after he was at Marist College to discuss his budget and announce a few economic development projects in the Hudson Valley, Governor Cuomo introduced the first of four regional summits supporting the state's effort to protect lakes and waterbodies in upstate New York from harmful algal blooms, or HABs.

So when Cuomo announced the effort to develop an action plan for 12 waterbodies, the Wallkill River Watershed Alliance and Riverkeeper called on the state to add the Wallkill to the list.

Tiny plastic particles smaller than five millimeters, so - called microplastics, are found in almost all waterbodies these days.

«We want to understand how many birds a waterbody can support before becoming seriously polluted.»

Industries, like municipalities and other entities that generate wastes, dispose of many liquid wastes through wastewater systems (and ultimately to waterbodies), whereas they dispose of their solid wastes in landfills.

There are very few other animals running around during the day at the open edges of these waterbodies — just ants and cane toads — and when we increased ant numbers by baiting, this didn't increase the numbers of native species killed by ants.

A female ready to spawn will approach a waterbody where males are waiting (and usually, calling to advertise their presence).

The release of non-native species into our waters will not only have an impact on the ecology and water quality of our freshwaters but may also pose a risk to users of our waterbodies,» adds Mr Ridzuan Ismail, PUB's director of catchment and waterways.

Bodhisattwa: My pet peeve was Geralt's horse Roach, who spawns at weird locations such as in between two walls, or right in the middle of a waterbody when you whistle to call him.

These nutrients are desirable in agriculture, but not in waterbodies.»

«But those waterbodies sit around as lakes for several thousand years,» she explains, «and at some point, they burn up all of the permafrost carbon and so their methane emissions decline and as they slow down in their emissions, they speed up in their ability to soak up carbon out of the atmosphere.»

DEP is currently building green infrastructure in compliance with NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) requirements to reduce combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges into New York City's waterbodies.

All commercial activities that involve the use of land or waterbodies can be impacted by CWA regulatory burdens.