Sentences with phrase «where water samples»

The areas where water samples drawn from near - surface layers had traces of the natural contaminants from the deep shale layers showed no relationship to past or current gas drilling activity, the researchers reported.

A neighborhood in the urban area of Iquitos, Peru, where water samples were collected.

Not exact matches

In the EPA's study of lead levels in Chicago homes, 88 percent of homes had one or more water sample where the lead value was over 7 parts per billion.

«You can collect 10, 20 samples of your water that show pretty low levels of lead — 6 or 7 parts per billion, but then you might collect another sample where you've got 3,000 parts per billion lead,» Edwards says.

«You can collect 10, 20 samples of your water that show pretty low levels of lead - 6 or 7 parts per billion, but then you might collect another sample where you've got 3,000 parts per billion lead,» Edwards says.

For the first time, Georgia Division of Environmental Protection will check the addresses where water systems take their samples to be sure those sites are at the highest risk for lead contamination.

No random sampling; authors appear to have simply cherry - picked water wells previously known to have high concentrations of methane, although they never actually mention in the report which wells they sampled or where they're located: «Jackson said the study was indeed not random, but that was because they needed homeowners permission to test their water.»

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

Officials said the typical level of the toxic chemical found in the blood samples of more than 2,000 Rensselaer County residents is about 11 times higher than the national average, but well below levels detected in other areas of the nation where the contaminant has also polluted public water supplies.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz stopped short of requiring his health department to mandate tap water sampling in homes where children are already diagnosed with high lead levels, but he did say that «maybe we do need to take additional steps, such as testing the water.»

The tap water in the city of Auburn's water treatment plant lab is where the Cayuga County Health Department collects its treated water samples.

For traditional, standard tests, water samples need to be kept below 4 degrees Celsius after collection until they are delivered to a lab where they can be cultured and examined under a microscope for microorganisms, such as Escherichia coli.

A peak microplastics concentration was measured at Rees on the Nederhijn, where 3.9 million plastic items per square kilometer (or 21,839 particles per 1000 cubic meters) were found in a single water sample.

With a commercially available, though slightly modified, water column sampler, water samples are taken from the bottom of the water body, where invasive gobies live.

In Pavillion, Wyo., where residents have complained of nerve damage and loss of sense of taste and smell, EPA superfund investigators found benzene and other hydrocarbons in well water samples, as well as methane gas, metals, and an unusual chemical variant of a compound used in hydraulic fracturing.

, where the public can make tax - deductible donations to support the analysis of existing water samples, or propose and fund new sampling locations along the West Coast.

He recently took that experience to Nepal, where he collected water samples from the Himalayan glacier - fed Kosi River as part of an expedition led by the Mountain Institute.

To avoid contaminating any samples, they drilled to the surface but no further, allowing the pressurized water to seek the path of least resistance and climb up the hole created by the drill, where it could be extracted.

By comparing this fingerprint to the geochemical and isotopic profiles of 29 background surface water samples collected across the region, the team was able to determine where and to what extent contamination associated with brine spills had occurred, and rule out the possibility that it had been caused by other sources.

Two years ago the drill ship Joides Resolution went back to the same waters off Peru where Parkes's first samples had been taken.

The probe was tested on concentrated water samples from an area on Florida's East Coast where manatees congregate, in the Florida Panhandle, where they are less numerous, and at locations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Lake Ossa, Cameroon, where observers sometimes see the animals in the water.

With his pals in Cleveland, Ohio, where he grew up as the oldest son of a psychiatrist and an artist, Tatar entertained himself by scooping up pond water samples and, with a microscope, peering at the algae and protozoa trawling about within.

The runoff trickles through his crop fields, then beneath a small white structure where a pump sucks up small water samples.

«Our findings of adverse impact in a U.S. sample, particularly in performance - related functioning, gives confidence to the generalizability of findings from our work in Bangladesh, where we also observed a steep drop in intelligence scores in the very low range of water arsenic concentrations,» said Dr. Graziano, who is also professor of Pharmacology at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons.

In July and August, volunteers also collect water samples that are taken to the Marine Biological Laboratory where they are analyzed for nitrogen, phosphorus, and chlorophyll.

A water sample is placed inside the cylinder where it interacts with zinc ions, and a laser light is beamed into the object and onto the sample through a small hole, Yakovlev explains.

In fact, he says, the study of sewage and river water samples from Japan demonstrates the relative safety of the vaccine - derived virus: Although virulent vaccine - derived viruses in the environment «are actually a pretty common event,» he says, «we don't see outbreaks» of vaccine - caused disease, even in areas where vaccination coverage is relatively low.

A study examining more than 50 tap water samples found water had very few bacteria in buildings without cisterns but there was noticeable contamination in buildings where storage tanks were present or plumbing had been altered or otherwise disrupted.

She railed against its claims that a chemical remedy could be diluted to the point where a sample was unlikely to contain a single molecule of anything but water, and yet still have a healing effect.

It also would be far easier to get a water sample from Enceladus, which has plumes of water vapor, ice and particles shooting more than 300 miles off its surface, than from other moons, such as Jupiter's Europa, where a massive ocean is believed to be buried beneath a thick icy crust.

Sample CO2 from collagen and marine shell was sent to KCCAMS where it was reduced to graphite at 550 °C using H2 and a Fe catalyst, with reaction water drawn off with Mg (ClO4) 2 (ref.

Tara expeditions work more or less like this: a team of adventurous scientists sails towards places where they can extract water samples of biological interest, and they send the material they collect to the labs as quickly as they can.

«There was a case in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the father of one of the students brought a water sample from Antarctica to be compared with the water they were drinking at school,» Sendova said.

Students complete a practical where they complete analysis on three different water samples.

While it's tempting to simply spend a stay relaxing by the pool, it's well worth the short walk or buggy ride down the hill from the villa to Nai Thon Beach, where you can sunbathe on the soft sand, swim or snorkel in the clear, warm water, or sample fresh seafood from local vendors.

Take your pick, for there are more than a couple of these wonderful open air, casual restaurants, where, on the water's edge, you sample the delights of the sea — anything from black mussels to snoek and waterblommetjie bredie on an open braai.

The Saigon Bar provides a stylish retreat where guests can sample afternoon tea, happy hour cocktails and a small à la carte menu while enjoying live music, and the Sports Bar provides a relaxed setting in which to unwind after an active day on the water.

Explorean's all - inclusive plan also gives guests full access to the amenities of the next - door Fiesta Americana resort, where there are seven additional restaurants to sample, along with a range of amenities that include a fitness center, spa, a pool with swim - up bar, and a private beach club with complimentary water sports.

On Deck 8 you'll find the Ocean View Eatery, where you'll be able to sample a delightful selection of snacks and meals whilst overlooking the crystalline waters.

Sample mouth - watering New Zealand gastronomy where your expectations will be exceeded at Rakinui Restaurant & Bar.

From beach games to water aerobics, as well as the Cayman Pub Crawl, by far the most talked about activity offered, where guests are taken from Pub to Pub by bus for a great night sampling many of our finest Grand Cayman establishments.

Prudence Gill's dimly lit, shimmering piece traces the path of the Mississippi and its tributaries through a suspended LED sculpture of the watershed and small lenticular photographic panoramas depicting 94 points on the Ohio and Mississippi, where she also collected water samples displayed in vials.

Photos by Hiroshi Sugimoto document famous Pequod locales (the Nantucket site from which it launched and the Pacific Ocean, where it sank), Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas crafts a giant clay sculpture of a white whale in real time, Angela Bulloch contemplates the night sky, and Kirsten Pieroth collects samples of water from the world's oceans.

Clearly a lot of sampling skill is needed to discount trees that have taken root where subsoil variability comes into play, lest that inhomogeneity of nutrient and water availability blur or wash out the temperature component.

One of my introductions to the strange world of climatism was a discussion at Climate Audit, where Steve McIntyre and his colleagues were trying to puzzle out the effect of a changeover in the early 20th century from leather to oaken buckets for gathering water samples for measuring ocean temperature.

In one study, published yesterday (April 11) in the journal Nature, researchers analyzed ocean sediments in a core sampled off the eastern coast of the U.S., from depths where most of the water originated in the North Atlantic's Labrador Sea.

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