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  2. History of water supply and sanitation - Wikipedia

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    [96]: 28 In the United States, the first sewage treatment plant using chemical precipitation was built in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1890. [ 96 ] : 29 During the half-century around 1900, these public health interventions succeeded in drastically reducing the incidence of water-borne diseases among the urban population, and were an important ...

  3. Taylor Energy oil spill - Wikipedia

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    The result was 25 – 28 leaking well heads buried beneath the sea floor at approximately 475 feet (145 m) below the surface. [10] At the moment of capsizing, more than 600 barrels of crude oil, each containing 42 gallons, tumbled into the Gulf. The rig, leaking oil, was buried in 150 feet of mud. [4] [11] [10]

  4. Water pollution in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Topsoil runoff from farm, central Iowa (2011). Water pollution in the United States is a growing problem that became critical in the 19th century with the development of mechanized agriculture, mining, and manufacturing industries—although laws and regulations introduced in the late 20th century have improved water quality in many water bodies. [1]

  5. Leak detection - Wikipedia

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    A leak appearing within an analytic region (a rule added to the camera) is immediately analyzed for its attributes, including thermal temperature, size, and behaviour (e.g. spraying, pooling, spilling). When a leak is determined to be valid based on set parameters, an alarm notification with leak video is generated and sent to a monitoring station.

  6. List of natural gas and oil production accidents in the ...

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    April 19, 2011 – Well blowout in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. [136] March 28, 2012 – An explosion at a natural gas compression station in Susquehanna County. [137] May 19, 2012 – Leroy Twp., Contamination from leaking gas well, [138] May 15, 2013 – A fire and possible explosion, at a Susquehanna County gas compressor station. [139]

  7. Building airtightness - Wikipedia

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    It represents the area of a perfect orifice that would produce the same airflow rate as that passing through the building envelope at the reference pressure. To allow comparisons between buildings, the ELA may be divided by the envelope or floor area, or may be used to derive the normalized leakage area (NL). [15]

  8. Well test - Wikipedia

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    Often the well efficiency is determined from this sort of test, this is a percentage indicating the fraction of total observed drawdown in a pumping well which is due to aquifer losses (as opposed to being due to flow through the well screen and inside the borehole). A perfectly efficient well, with perfect well screen and where the water flows ...

  9. Fracking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Environmental Protection Agency illustration of the water cycle of hydraulic fracturing. Fracking in the United States began in 1949. [1] According to the Department of Energy (DOE), by 2013 at least two million oil and gas wells in the US had been hydraulically fractured, and that of new wells being drilled, up to 95% are hydraulically fractured.