Sentence examples for pollution control plants from inspiring English sources

In its yearly report on harbor water quality issued in May, the city's Department of Environmental Protection found water quality significantly better than it was before 1990 because of construction of water pollution control plants, better maintenance of the sewage system and abatement of illegal discharges.

His vessel — a football field in length from stem to stern — is a unique link in New York City's chain of municipal waste, a complicated process that begins at 14 pollution control plants, where more than 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater are treated every day.

The research team, part of the University of California, San Francisco, Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit, examined historical lindane concentrations in several Southern California water pollution control plants and compared them before and after the ban.

If the measure passes, the Oceanside Water Pollution Control plant will become the George W. Bush sewage plant.

Geoffrey Ryan, spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection, said in the mid-30's, planners worried that grit would clog the deep underground tunnels linking sewers in Manhattan and the Bronx to the new water pollution control plant at Wards Island.

In this study, factorial experimental analyses were used to study the influence of different variables on the lipid extraction and biodiesel production from dried municipal primary and secondary sludge (Adelaide Pollution Control Plant, London, ON, Canada).

As Hurricane Sandy swept across the Gowanus Canal last year, a pumping station that redirects sewage to a pollution-control plant was damaged and went offline for almost 33 hours, according to a report released by the city after the storm.

By regulating only new plants, however, the government passed up the opportunity to achieve fairly cheap pollution control at plants that were, in fact, easy to retrofit.

Companies lose money because they treat pollution control and plant operations as separate concerns.

When the law was enacted, it exempted from its requirements for modern, expensive pollution controls those plants that were already in operation.

Much research has been done on pollution control for power plants.