Sentence examples for public waterways from inspiring English sources

Through this process, state water boards ensure that factories are not dumping pollutants into public waterways.

The central question on this issue: Should drillers in Pennsylvania be allowed to dump "mystery liquids" into public waterways?

By uncovering, or daylighting, the Saw Mill as a four-acre park, Yonkers is following cities like Providence, R.I., that have built better downtowns around rediscovered public waterways.

The standards for discharging in public waterways or reusing the final treated effluent for irrigation with acceptable quality were therefore accomplished.

There's good reason for the resentment, too: a long, complicated history including everything from poisoning public waterways to manufacturing Agent Orange, bovine growth hormones, and DDT pesticides.

Duke said this month that it would move its coal ash at several sites to more secure pits farther from public waterways.

In January, it became illegal in South Carolina to abandon a boat on a public waterway.

Expanding the definition of what makes a river a public waterway, New York State's highest court ruled yesterday that rivers surrounded by private property can be open to the public if they have a recreational use.

To qualify for the tax benefit, according to the I.R.S., a property must be a habitat for certain types of wildlife, or abut a public waterway or wetlands, or have a scenic or recreational quality for the community.

In a dissenting opinion, Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa agreed with the majority on the overall principle of what constitutes a public waterway, but he also said that the case should be decided by the court in favor of the Sierra Club, without a trial.

"When a new bridge is being built above a public waterway the commission has a legal authority to protect the rights of the public to access," said Christopher Pederson, deputy chief counsel for the commission.