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Hydroman™ Submersible mining silica sand pump
Hydroman™ Submersible mining silica sand pump is a kind of Submersible equipment which motor connects directly with pump. It is used for delivering liquid contained slurry, sand, coal, stone, gravel and other aggressive solid etc. The 65TJQ pump can be mainly employed in clearing the mud in lake, river, sea and widening channel etc. It also can be applied to clear out sewage pool; in ...
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President of Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments Announced to Speak at The 25th Annual Produced Water Society Seminar 2015!
The President of Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments, Gary Bartman, will be one of the guest speakers at the 25th Annual Produced Water Society Seminar 2015. The seminar will take place at the Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake in Houston, TX from January 13-15, 2015. The Produced Water Society is a collection of engineers and industry professionals with the common purpose to study and improve ...
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EPA awards $300,000 small business grant for Berkeley, Calif. entrepreneur’s portable test for toxic algae blooms
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $300,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to HJ Science & Technology, Inc. in Berkeley, Calif. to build a portable instrument to analyze cyanotoxins in surface waters to help protect people from potentially harmful toxic algal blooms in lakes and rivers. “Supporting the growth of environmental small businesses ...
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EPA works with Bayou Land Resource Conservation and Development Council to Control Mosquitos and Protect Water
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Bayou Land Resource Conservation and Development Council is taking action by evaluating the impact of green infrastructure on mosquito breeding areas and surface water quality in the Pontchartrain Park and Gentilly Woods neighborhoods. EPA is awarding $59,000 to help protect and restore waters around Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans. The projects will ...
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Florida lawmakers to talk water funding, not policy
In the marshes along the western edge of Florida's largest freshwater lake, the water is clear, wading birds burst into the sky ahead of an approaching airboat, and there's no sign of the turmoil that elevated water levels caused last summer. The political waters in Tallahassee, though, are roiling over Lake Okeechobee and other hydrological woes, from Florida's Big Bend to the state's signature ...
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Making NY`s Lake George the world`s `smartest`
An unprecedented project to turn New York's Lake George into the "smartest lake in the world" is being launched and will monitor the lake from its sun-dappled shores to its dark depths in hopes of keeping the Adirondack attraction pristine. Sensors analyzing the likes of stream runoff, rainfall, wind, currents, salinity, chlorophyll and nitrogen will be placed around Lake George this year and an ...
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U.S. EPA, Dept. of justice reach $10 million settlement with department of the interior, northern California mining company for cleanup costs and transfer of land to Elem Indian colony
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a multi-party agreement to settle cleanup costs for seven mining sites in three states. The parties to the agreement include the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Forest Service, the Bradley Mining Company, the Worthen Bradley Family Trust and the Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians. Under the settlement, the Bradley Mining Company ...
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EPA takes step to improve Lake Champlain water quality
After a careful review, EPA has disapproved Vermont’s 2002 water quality plan that set phosphorus targets for discharges into Lake Champlain. Following this action, EPA intends to work closely and collaboratively with the State to develop a new plan for reductions in phosphorus from sources in Vermont. Elevated levels of phosphorus cause algae blooms and other water quality problems in Lake ...
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Saranac Lake, N.Y. gas station owner to install new equipment to ensure underground petroleum tanks are not leaking into groundwater (NY)
The owner of four gas stations around Saranac Lake, N.Y. will spend $60,000 to improve how its gas stations detect leaks from their underground petroleum storage tank systems, and will assist another gas station and a hotel to do the same as the result of an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). P.J. Hyde & Son, Inc. will also pay a $16,000 fine under the agreement, ...
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Decade-old dream comes true for Lake Chad
Gland, Switzerland – World Wetlands Day is being celebrated with the full recognition of Africa’s Lake Chad as a wetland of international significance, fulfilling an agreement made a decade ago by the four nations that share it. The declaration by the Cameroon Republic that its portion of Africa’s fourth largest lake is being declared a wetland of international importance under the 1971 Ramsar ...
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Climate change warms world`s largest lake, Baikal in Siberia
The rising temperature of the world's largest lake - Lake Baikal in Siberia - shows that this icy region of Russia is changing due to global warming, Russian and American scientists have discovered. This lake was expected to be among those most resistant to climate change, due to its huge volume and unique water circulation, but long-term data collection reveals that warming is taking place. In ...
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$50 Billion Benefit Projected for Great Lakes Restoration
CHICAGO, Illinois, September 6, 2007 (ENS) - Restoring the health of the Great Lakes will create $50 billion in economic benefit for the region, about twice what it will cost to restore the lakes, according to a new cost-benefit analysis, conducted by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. The report was released Wednesday on the eve of the 3rd Annual Great Lakes Restoration ...
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$13 Million to Flow to 16 Watershed Groups
(Washington, D.C. - Aug. 20, 2007) On the shore of Tacoma's Commencement Bay in Washington, EPA's Assistant Administrator for Water today announced 16 organizations are finalists eligible to apply for a total of $13.36 million through EPA's Targeted Watersheds Grants Program. The selected organizations will implement a variety of activities to improve the health of their watersheds. 'These ...
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$50 Million Cleanup of Ashtabula River Sediment Begins
Untitled Document ASHTABULA, Ohio , June 5, 2006 (ENS) - Crews have begun to remove contaminated sediment from the bottom of the Ashtabula River, and today federal, state and local offficials gathered in the city of Ashtabula to officially kick off the three year, $50 million project. From the 1940s through the late 1970s, discharges of contaminants from industries throughout the ...
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