Sentence examples for ground and surface from inspiring English sources

Pollutants in ground and surface water include benzene, hydrocarbons, heavy metals and naturally occurring radioactive material.

It also turned back a move to weaken standards for ground and surface water.

They have also submitted plans for long-term monitoring of ground and surface water.

"The fact is that perhaps more than any other town Southampton has enacted zoning and other protective measures that secure our ground and surface water," he said.

Environmental pollution (air as well as ground and surface water) will occur at all stages of the shale gas extraction process.

They are found in ground and surface waters and in the food we eat, and they have been shown to disrupt nerve-cell activity in mammals.

Those can broadly be thought of as the volume of rainwater consumed, the volume of ground and surface water depleted and the volume of water polluted.

THE Nassau County towns of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay have approved referendums for Nov. 7 on spending a total of $45 million for acquisitions of open space, environmental restoration, park improvements and ground and surface water protection.

"We do know chemical contamination of ground and surface water is happening all the time but no one knows what the impacts are because the data isn't being collected," Souther said.

Nearly all of the wells in Colorado (97%) were located in areas where most of the ground and surface water is already stretched between farming and cities, the report said.

According to data they have collected in two separate studies, overused and outdated septic systems have led to ground and surface water pollution in the neighborhood, said George Hicks, a senior sanitary engineer for the agency's Bureau of Water Management.