Sentences with phrase «contaminated water pumped»

Contaminated water pumped into Lake Conway as citizen journalists report live.

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For a century and a half, epidemiology has been an effective strategy for tracing the root causes of infectious disease outbreaks — as John Snow demonstrated in 1854, when he painstakingly mapped cases of cholera in London and eventually traced them to a single contaminated well and water pump in the Soho district of the city.

The technique uses high - pressure pumps to force contaminated water across a special membrane, which weeds out the bad stuff and lets the pure water through.

This sterilises the water and removes any bacteria that could have contaminated the water tap, making it safe to wash pumping parts, cook with, and drink.

OPPONENT But pumping a cocktail of chemicals into the Earth can't be good - surely this will contaminate water supplies.

The Indian Point nuclear power plant has a long history of accidental radioactive leaks and spills: spent fuel pools at the plant housing toxic nuclear waste have been leaking since the 1990s; corroded buried pipes have sprung radioactive leaks; tanks have spilled hundreds of gallons radioactively contaminated water; and malfunctioning valves and pumps have leaked radionuclide - laden water.

Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.

In 1854 physician John Snow, one of the founders of modern epidemiology, traced a cholera outbreak in the overcrowded London neighborhood of Soho to a contaminated public water pump by noting how many cases of illness clustered around the pump.

One thing that needs to be assessed, says Day, is a possible «ecological disaster in the making» as flood water contaminated with «heavy metals, petroleum products, and who knows what else» is pumped into the wetland.

His biggest project is an aquifer east of Los Angeles where groundwater contaminated with fuel and industrial solvents is being pumped out and treated for use as drinking water.

They have been forced to pump low - level radioactive water, left by the tsunami, back into the sea in order to free up storage capacity for highly contaminated water from reactors.

Because in those days people didn't have tap water in their homes; they would go to a well and pump it, you know, pump the water up from underground; and what he was saying some of the wells were contaminated, and he then proved it after he identified from his maps which wells exactly were contaminated, he proved it by taking the pump handle off the well.

The collection wells and trenches are designed to remove contaminated ground water by drainage or active pumping and the injection wells are designed to flush the alluvial aquifer with clean water from deeper wells.

If you did not get all of the oil out of the radiator before you started the vehicle, that oil is now contaminating the thermostat, water pump, and the engine cooling pockets.

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

Stephens confirmed that the pumping was done to prevent the cove water from spilling over the highway, but said he did not think there was any danger of the contaminated water flooding any homes along the cove.

The spill occurred at a pumping station, but the spray contaminated soil and water in a nearby field before it could be contained.

However, even during the first few days following the spill, due to rain, water was pumped from the contaminated cove to the main body of Lake Conway to keep the cove from flooding homes or the highway.

For sake of argument, if we accept that the well that was supplying the potable water to this mystery home was as aesthetically contaminated as the subject writer has claimed or implied, the sump - pump pit would be even worse because they're not protected in any way similar to that of a well that supplies potable water to a home.