Non-Transient Non-Community Water System
A public water system that regularly serves at least 25 of the same non-resident persons per day for more than six months per year.
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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): (From the USDA) In basic terms, CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community's farm, ...
Community Assistance Panel (CAP)
A group of people from a community and from health and environmental agencies who work with ATSDR to resolve issues and problems related to hazardous substances in the community.
Community: the organisms that inhabit a particular area with potentially interacting populations
Conformer: species that allow their body temperature or internal salt concentration to change in proportion to changes in ambient conditions ...
community right-to-know - public accessibility to information about toxic pollution.
Community
all the groups of organisms living together in the same area, usually interacting or depending on each other for existence.
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community supported agriculture (CSA): a network of consumers in a region enter into a contract to buy produce (often organic) from local farmers, ...
Community Right-to-Know reporting requirements
Part of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA), ...
Community water system: A public water system which serves at least 15 service connections used by year-round residents or regularly serves at least 25 year-round residents.
Community is the collection of organisms (of various species of plant and animal groups or people) that live together in a particular habitat or area.
Community: In ecology, an assemblage of populations of different species within a specified location in space and time.
Community Development Quota (CDQ)
Program in western Alaska under which a percentage of the total allowable catch (TAC) of Bering Sea commercial fisheries is allocated to specific communities.
Community Environmental Response Facilitation Act of 1992 (CERFA) ...
C Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation
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Biotic Community
A naturally occurring assemblage of plants and animals that live in the same environment and are mutually sustaining and interdependent. (See biome.)
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biotic community See community.
biotic influence
biotic potential The inherent ability of members of a population to grow in numbers within a given time and under stated environmental conditions.
Community: The plants and animals that interact in a habitat.
Cover: Overhanging or instream structures such as tree roots, undercut streambanks, boulders, or gabions that offer protection from predators or shelter from strong currents.
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
A planned residential condominium, cooperative and/or homeowner group with the primary function of addressing the concerns and needs of residents within a specific geographic area.
Community Relations
Two-way communications with the public to foster understanding of conservation programs and actions and to increase citizen input into conservation decisions. ...
A non-community water system that does not serve 25 of the same nonresidents per day for more than six months per year.
Transpiration ...
A plant community of the most advanced type capable of development under, and in dynamic equilibrium with, the prevailing environment.
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Ecosystem: community of animals and plants and the physical environment in which they live.
Effluent: discharge or emission of a liquid or gas.
climax community a stage during ecological succession that is relatively stable and during which plants and animals are capable of continued reproduction in the environment they have helped to create.
non-community water system A public water system that is not a community water system. non-point source A source of pollution that does not have a single point of origin.
ECOSYSTEM: A community of plants and animals and the physical environment in which they live.
Habitat The sum of the environmental conditions that determine the existence of a community in a specific place. Halon Bromine-containing compounds with long atmospheric lifetimes whose breakdown in the stratosphere causes depletion of ozone.
Ecosystem The interacting system of a biological community and its non-living environmental surroundings.Ecosystem Engineer Any biological organism that creates or modifies habitats.
Climax The presumed endpoint of a successional sequence; a community that has reached a steady state.
See transient non-community water system.
too numerous to count. The total number of bacterial colonies exceeds 200 on a 47-nun diameter membrane filter used for coliform detection.
topography.
Health Canada, Investigating Human Exposure to Contaminants in the Environment: A Community Handbook, Ottawa, 1995: 58.
6. Health and Welfare Canada, A Vital Link: An Overview of Health and the Environment in Canada.
Croatia; Cuba; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Denmark; Djibouti; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Estonia; Ethiopia; European Community; ...
EC stands for European Community, which is made up of the majority of the countries in Europe. Countries who are part of the EC have to follow its rules and laws, which means they all work together.
On undisturbed sites a scrub oak community, composed primarily of live, turkey, and blackjack oaks (Quercus virginia, Q. laevis, and Q. marilandica, respectively) forms the natural vegetation.
Community, Family & Minority Health
Health Care Professionals & Patient Safety
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Diseases & Conditions
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Interagency Collaboration: Interagency collaboration is the process of coordinating the responsibilities of the agencies involved at a hazardous waste site by addressing community concerns, whether health issues or environmental quality concerns, ...
These models are accepted by the scientific community as being valid only after it has been shown that they do a good job of simulating known climate variations, such as the difference between summer and winter, the North Atlantic Oscillation, ...
Oral History Project: Students interview older residents in the community about climate changes during their lifetime and compare the results to a climate change index that is based on historical temperature measurements.
Contact community officials or a local recycling center to find out which items they will accept.
Provide containers for collecting items like paper, bottles, cans, electronic equipment, and batteries.
Keep track of how much is recycled.
In the context of European Community Council Directive 79/831/EEC, the Sixth Amendment to the European Community Council Directive 67/548/EEC relating to the Classification, Packaging and Labeling of Dangerous Substances, ...
The 1990 Clean Air Act requires states to monitor community air in polluted areas to check on whether the areas are being cleaned up according to schedules set out in the law.
In particular, SARA Title III is known as the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986.
Wastewater The spent or used water from a home, community, farm, or industry that contains dissolved or suspended matter.
Wastewater infrastructure The plan or network for the collection, treatment, and disposal of sewage in a community.
Promote water conservation in community newsletters and on bulletin boards.
Report significant water losses (such as broken pipes or misdirected sprinklers) to the property owner, local authorities or your water management district.
Plans developed in partnership by all parts of the community, including residents, special interest groups, local government, local industry and other agencies such as EPA and Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) ...
The continuing commitment by businesses to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the quality of life of the workplace as well as the local community and society at large; a company’ ...
Not only do they provide benefits for the residents themselves by reducing the heat load on the building and monthly utility costs and by providing additional outdoor space, but they also provide benefits for the surrounding community by controlling ...
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However, problems arise when the following question is asked: What is of greater value to the community - industrial development, which creates wealth, or unspoiled scenery, which creates and supports high quality of life?
The basic units for study are the species (all the organisms which are capable of interbreeding), population (all of the members of a species occupying a certain geographical area) and community (number of populations interacting within a certain ...
Ecosystem. A natural community of organisms and the physical environment in which they interact.
Environment: All of the external factors, conditions, and influences which affect an organism or a community. Also, everything that surrounds an organism or organisms, including both natural and human-built elements.
An area of parks, landscaping or undeveloped natural land surrounding or within a community.
Groundwater
Water located beneath the earth's surface.
Annex 1 parties include: Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, European Economic Community, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, ...
Allogenic Succession - Predictable changes in plant and animal communities in which changes are caused by events external to the community, for example, fire, drought, floods, etc.
Density Bonus - A credit that allows developers to build more units than would normally be allowed in a certain zoning district by exchanging the excess units for other community benefits, such as affordable housing, historic preservation, ...
Global warming is believed to have adverse consequences such as climate change and a rise in sea levels. The scientific community is in general agreement that the Earth's surface has warmed by about 1°F in the past 140 years.
The federal Safe Drinking Water Act requires states to provide each public water system with a source water assessment. Public water systems are then required to make the assessments available to the public. A community may verify, ...
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