Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This decision required the construction of a 43 miles (69 km) interceptor sewer from the Dulles area to Blue Plains. Congress authorized construction of the Potomac Interceptor in 1960. Construction of the main interceptor system took place in 1962. Subsequently there have been several pipe extension and maintenance projects.
This rapid growth resulted in deterioration of water quality in the nearly 10 billion US gallons (38,000,000 m 3) Occoquan Reservoir, a principal drinking water supply for Northern Virginia] In 1971, the Virginia Water Control Board, in agreement with the Virginia Department of Health, adopted a bold and innovative policy. The Occoquan Policy ...
Wastewater in the Central Service Area is sent to the Broad Run Water Reclamation Facility, owned and operated by Loudoun Water, or conveyed via the Potomac Interceptor to the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant operated by the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority.
Milking parlour wastes are often treated in admixture with human sewage in a local sewage treatment plant. This ensures that disinfectants and cleaning agents are sufficiently diluted and amenable to treatment. Running milking wastewaters into a farm slurry lagoon is a possible option although this tends to consume lagoon capacity very quickly.
That pollution led the U.S. EPA to mandate major upgrades to the city's wastewater system. Requirements included building interceptor tunnels to retain the combined sewage and stormwater for ...
Sewage treatment (or domestic wastewater treatment, municipal wastewater treatment) is a type of wastewater treatment which aims to remove contaminants from sewage to produce an effluent that is suitable to discharge to the surrounding environment or an intended reuse application, thereby preventing water pollution from raw sewage discharges. [5]
The U.S. bird-flu outbreak in dairy cattle is much larger than official figures suggest due to farmers' reluctance to test their animals and risk the economic consequences of a positive result ...
Commenter @goosiewkup joked, "The horse was like “I’m not a background extra, I’m the main character” LOL!" @Kris shared, "IDK what the commercial is for, but I'd be more swayed if that ...