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The German word Talsperre (literally: valley barrier) may mean dam, but it is often used to include the associated reservoir as well. [1] The reservoirs are often separately given names ending in -see, -teich or -speicher which are the German words for "lake", "pond" and "reservoir", but in this case all may also be translated as "reservoir".
The largest privately owned public water company is Gelsenwasser AG, although 92,9% of it are still owned by various municipalities, [16] which is a multi-utility company (water, sanitation and natural gas distribution) serving 3.2 million inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia, under concession agreements with 39 municipalities, and many other ...
An elevated water tank, also known as a water tower, will create a pressure at the ground-level outlet of 1 kPa per 10.2 centimetres (4.0 in) or 1 psi per 2.31 feet (0.70 m) of elevation. Thus a tank elevated to 20 metres creates about 200 kPa and a tank elevated to 70 feet creates about 30 psi of discharge pressure, sufficient for most ...
In New Jersey, the Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) Site Remediation Program oversees the Superfund program. As of 16 August 2024 [update] , there are 115 Superfund sites listed on the National Priorities List (NPL).
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in New Jersey.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
[13] [14] The Water Pollution Control Act prohibits the discharge of any pollutant into the waters of the state without a valid permit. [15] The NJDEP enforces the "Water Pollution Control Act" through the New Jersey Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, a system of permits for facilities that discharge liquid waste into natural waters in the ...
The Union Watersphere is a water tower topped with a sphere-shaped water tank in Union, New Jersey, [11] and characterized as the World's Tallest Water Sphere. A Star Ledger article [ 12 ] suggested a water tower in Erwin, North Carolina completed in early 2012, 219.75 ft (66.98 m) tall and holding 500,000 US gallons (1,900 m 3 ), [ 13 ] had ...
A February 2012 Star Ledger article suggested a water tower in Erwin, North Carolina completed in early 2012, [2] 219.75 ft (66.98 m) tall and holding 500,000 US gallons (1,900 m 3), [11] had become the World's Tallest Water Sphere. However photographs of the Erwin water tower revealed the new tower to be a water spheroid.