Sentences with phrase «contaminated water flowing»

The scientists estimated that the amount of contaminated water flowing into the ocean from this brackish groundwater source below the sandy beaches is as large as the input from two other known sources: ongoing releases and runoff from the nuclear power plant site itself, and outflow from rivers that continue to carry cesium from the fallout on land in 2011 to the ocean on river - borne particles.

TEPCO hopes to erect curtain - like barriers of silt around the water outlets to pen in the contaminated water flowing from the plant.

In a more practical test in which lead - contaminated water flowed through the foam, it scrubbed the water of up to 67 percent of the lead ions.

As the contaminated water flows into larger and larger bodies of water, it will become increasingly diluted.

Not exact matches

Water from the contaminated side will start to flow across the membrane, diluting the salt solution on the other side.

Like water flowing through a rusty pipe, our desires and needs contaminate the flow.

The underground flow of contaminated water can not be contained within the borders of a county.

He said such pollution can lead to unclean drinking water, an unhealthy food supply through fish consumption and the flow of contaminated water into smaller waterways.

The thin calcite deposits on cave art can be contaminated by new flows of uranium - containing water, dust, or other detritus, making the art seem older than it is, he and his colleagues argued.

Finally, the team flowed inactivated, E. coli - contaminated water through the wood filter.

Scientists discuss how agriculture and irrigation are changing underground water flows, rerouting them through contaminated ground

And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based on incomplete data from state governments gathered in 2007.

As past studies of groundwater flows at the site have shown, the contaminated water will migrate to the river over the course of several months.

The list of complaints include polluted water flowing directly to the Yangtze River, water so contaminated it is not fit for any purpose, foul - smelling gasses so strong they even wake people up at night and cause headaches and nosebleeds, a village of 50 residents next to a factory of which nine people have developed cancer, and of course the infamous explosion at a Foxconn plant that killed three this past May.

In the process of fracking, the «toxic soup» of chemicals used to break apart shale rock can leach into underground aquifers, wells and other drinking sources, contaminating the water lines that flow into hundreds or thousands of local businesses and homes.