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2. Appalachian bogs - Wikipedia

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   The sheeting of water keeps the edges of the rock wet without eroding the soil, but in this precarious location no tree or large shrub can maintain a roothold. The result is a narrow, permanently wet, sunny habitat. While a cataract bog is host to plants typical of a bog, it is technically a fen, not a bog. Bogs get water from the atmosphere ...

3. Upper Occoquan Sewage Authority - Wikipedia

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   In 1978, the UOSA Regional Water Reclamation Plant, located on 470 acres (1.9 km 2) in western Fairfax County, commenced operations and replaced eleven small secondary treatment plants in the region. Since that time, water quality in the Occoquan Reservoir has steadily improved and the reliable, high-quality effluent produced by UOSA has ...

4. Water softening - Wikipedia

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   Water softening is the removal of calcium, magnesium, and certain other metal cations in hard water. The resulting soft water requires less soap for the same cleaning effort, as soap is not wasted bonding with calcium ions. Soft water also extends the lifetime of plumbing by reducing or eliminating scale build-up in pipes

5. Culligan - Wikipedia

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   Emmett J. Culligan. Culligan was founded in 1936 by Emmett Culligan. With $50 and with additional financing by his brother Dr. John M. Culligan, and his sister, Anna V. Culligan, Emmett established the Culligan Zeolite Company with his brothers Drs. John and Leo Culligan as partners.

6. Dealkalization of water - Wikipedia

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   Chloride cycle dealkalizers operate similar to sodium cycle cation water softeners. Like water softeners, dealkalizers contain ion-exchange resins that are regenerated with a concentrated salt solution - NaCl. In the case of a water softener, the cation exchange resin is exchanging sodium (the Na + ion of NaCl) for hardness minerals such as ...

7. List of plants endemic to the Appalachian Mountains - Wikipedia

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   It is a hemiparasitic shrub that is only found in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. [30] [31] Calamagrostis cainii [32] Campanula divaricata- small bonny bellflower. [33] [34] Cardamine clematitis [35] Cardamine flagellifera [36] Cardamine micranthera- small-anther bittercress, found only in Virginia and ...