Sentence examples for water permits from inspiring English sources

Water permits are still approved first come first served.

The lawsuit was settled last week, lifting sanctions for builders who had previously obtained water permits.

The amount of water that can be withdrawn for treatment is based on a 1982 state law that left in place older water permits based on usage.

The State Department of Environmental Protection is holding up issuing water permits for five Salem and Gloucester County building projects after a United States Geological Survey report said ground water levels in the area could drop by as much as four feet if the permits were issued.

Following in the footsteps of Parris Glendening, the Maryland governor nationally known as a smart-growth pioneer, Mr. McGreevey says he would withhold water permits for environmentally fragile areas, limit the construction of new highway access ramps and develop "super incentives" to lure developers to depopulated cities like Camden, Newark and Paterson.

In a legal appeal of one of the mine's water permits, he testified that the tailings, to be stored at the mining site in perpetuity, are likely to be infiltrated by rainwater and leach toxic elements like arsenic, mercury and lead into the ground and eventually the aquifers.

(Governor Cuomo has banned fracking in New York State, but protesters were demanding that he deny the plant a water permit).

Even so, the water permit that drew the ire of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley and then-Representative Rahm Emanuel remains in place.

It was the first time the agency had rescinded a valid clean water permit for a coal mine.

A union representative, for instance, was said to have made "salacious statements" at a water permit hearing by arguing that granting the permit would damage the environment.

"We could see water rights being handed out right and left," said Dianne Wassenich, executive director of the San Marcos River Foundation, the group seeking the water permit.