Research Reporting Series: Environmental protection technology, Issue 600Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1977 - Environmental engineering |
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... trace contaminants may remain on the land after application , and may either seep into underlying groundwater supplies , drain into a lake or stream , or be carried off the appliation site with surface waters . In each of these ...
... trace contaminants may remain on the land after application , and may either seep into underlying groundwater supplies , drain into a lake or stream , or be carried off the appliation site with surface waters . In each of these ...
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... trace pollution that might ensue . If any nearby landowner tried to enjoin the system's operation , the system would have several strong " equitable " defenses with which to defeat such an action . The legal position of land application ...
... trace pollution that might ensue . If any nearby landowner tried to enjoin the system's operation , the system would have several strong " equitable " defenses with which to defeat such an action . The legal position of land application ...
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... trace contamination of the watercourse on which he owned riparian land , several issues that can be loosely grouped as questions of remedies assume importance . The type of remedy most likely to be sought would be judicial . Although ...
... trace contamination of the watercourse on which he owned riparian land , several issues that can be loosely grouped as questions of remedies assume importance . The type of remedy most likely to be sought would be judicial . Although ...
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... trace pollution , he will be barred by laches even if he did not in fact learn of its operation until after it was underway ( 22 ) . A second defense is one called " coming to the nuisance " ( 23 ) . Like laches , this is another form ...
... trace pollution , he will be barred by laches even if he did not in fact learn of its operation until after it was underway ( 22 ) . A second defense is one called " coming to the nuisance " ( 23 ) . Like laches , this is another form ...
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... trace contaminants ; The jobs created by the project ; 3 . 4 . The crops grown for public consumption by the project ; 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . The revenue to be derived from crops sold , in the case of public application facilities ; The cost ...
... trace contaminants ; The jobs created by the project ; 3 . 4 . The crops grown for public consumption by the project ; 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . The revenue to be derived from crops sold , in the case of public application facilities ; The cost ...
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Page 69 - This report has been reviewed by the Environmental Protection Agency and approved for publication. Approval does not signify that the contents necessarily reflect the views and policies of the Environmental Protection Agency nor does mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation for use...
Page 31 - That whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized ana acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 13 - If the testimony shows the former to be the nature of the injury, the measure of damages is the difference in value of the property before and after the injury.
Page 68 - Environmental Protection Agency, have been grouped into nine series. These nine broad categories were established to facilitate further development and application of environmental technology. Elimination of traditional grouping was consciously planned to foster technology transfer and a maximum interface in related fields. The nine series are: 1. Environmental Health Effects Research 2. Environmental Protection Technology 3. Ecological Research 4. Environmental Monitoring 5. Socioeconomic Environmental...
Page 23 - ... but that it rather falls within that principle, which gives to the owner of the soil all that lies beneath his surface; that the land immediately below is his property, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil, part water; that the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and apply all that is there found to his own purposes at his free will and pleasure; and that if, in the exercise of such right, he intercepts or drains off the water collected from underground...
Page 31 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes, subject to existing rights.
Page 41 - Each possessor is legally privileged to make a reasonable use of his land, even though the flow of surface waters is altered thereby and causes some harm to others.
Page 36 - What diminution of quantity, or deterioration in quality, will constitute an invasion of the rights of the first appropriator, will depend upon the special circumstances of each case, considered with reference to the uses to which the water is applied.
Page 7 - For water is a movable, wandering thing, and must of necessity continue common by the law of nature; so that I can only have a temporary, transient, usufructuary, property therein...
Page 40 - Owners of land may drain the same in the general course of natural drainage, by constructing open or covered drains...