Sentences with phrase «disposal sites»

Are there any existing or proposed waste dumps, disposal sites or landfills in the immediate area?

Sooner or later, either fuel resources or the resources of disposal sites would be exhausted.

The report, in an attempt to pressure the EPA to regulate coal ash, noted that most states do not monitor drinking water contamination levels near waste disposal sites.

Less common nesting habitat includes bluff - backed beaches, dredged material disposal sites, salt pond levees, dry salt ponds, and river bars (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2001).

Waste pickers in developing countries face many health risks when working and living on waste disposal sites.

Heptachlor can also be found in the air and soil near toxic waste disposal sites.

However, U.S. government policy is to handle UET as wastes, not a uranium resource, and to build multi-billion-dollar conversion plants to remove the depleted uranium and to dispose of that waste through shallow land burial at low - level nuclear waste disposal sites.

Click here for drug disposal information including an interactive map detailing opioid disposal sites within the state of Michigan.

Despite Congress's dismal record with mandating storage and disposal sites and dates in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, and for Greater Than Class C and mercury, there are already proposals to try to implement the «prompt consolidated storage» recommended by the Blue Ribbon Commission.

Further, it is irresponsible and contrary to law for DOE to not fully explore alternative disposal sites for transuranic waste.

Scientists wonder why some wastewater - disposal sites are linked to earthquakes, while others, such as this facility in northern Colorado, are not.

According to the draft, power plant operators would have five years from the date of the law's enactment to take full responsibility for building and operating waste disposal sites.

«We are committed to choosing potential disposal sites through a consent - based process that would involve local and state governments, and any affected Tribes,» Wicker said in a prepared statement.

Although bacteria with waste - eating properties have been discovered in relatively pristine soils before, this is the first time that microbes that can survive in the very harsh conditions expected in radioactive waste disposal sites have been found.

The organisms are not only superbly adapted to live in the highly alkaline lime wastes, but they can use the ISA as a source of food and energy under conditions that mimic those expected in and around intermediate level radwaste disposal sites.

Another possible solution would involve opening more waste disposal sites.

Although endocrine - disrupting PCBs were banned in the United States in 1979, they are still released into the environment from disposal sites or products manufactured before the ban.

The level of radiation found in stream sediments at the disposal sites was about 650 times higher than radiation in upstream sediments.

Samples were collected annually from 2014 to 2017 at disposal sites on Blacklick Creek in Josephine, on the Allegheny River in Franklin, and on McKee Run in Creekside.

A new Duke study finds stream sediments at disposal sites such as this one have levels of radioactivity that are 650 times higher than at unaffected upstream sites.

To conduct the study, they collected stream sediments from three wastewater disposal sites in western Pennsylvania, as well as three upstream sites, and analyzed the radioactive elements in the sediments.

Evidence suggests that earthquake risks can spread for miles beyond the original disposal sites and can persist for a decade or more after drilling stops.

A long - simmering dispute over dumping dredged materials from rivers and harbors into Long Island Sound has flared up again with a new federal plan to govern disposal sites.

It has been alleged that the tax has led to an increase in fly - tipping and the use of unlicensed waste disposal sites.

Additionally, provision has been made to augment the sanitation infrastructure by constructing waste transfer stations at strategic locations to facilitate rapid waste collection to final disposal sites, beginning in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area.

Landfills are solid waste disposal sites, where both active and inert waste is deposited and compacted, and then periodically covered over with a layer of soil.

Connecticut and New York officials have been feuding for years over the issue of dredge disposal sites in Long Island Sound.

These disposal sites offer a free, safe and convenient way of proper disposal.

Six unauthorized dump sites were evacuated in the Accra Metropolis and in addition, the Ministry will acquire and develop material recovery sites such as waste transfer stations and final disposal sites in every region to ensure the sorting and temporary holding of solid waste prior to treatment at the waste processing plants.

So even though Penta and Octa are no longer produced in the U.S., millions of pounds are still commonly found in our homes, offices, vehicles and disposal sites due to extensive use in consumer products.5

More than 700,000 gallons of untreated water was hauled to disposal sites more than 40 miles away from each plant daily before the plants were completed in 2005 in Nampa and 2004 in Belmont.

Already a handful of communities have been approached by industry and government officials seeking disposal sites.

What about the people who will have to live near the disposal sites?

Waste - disposal methods should not threaten the safety of those who live near disposal sites.

For $ 1,120,000, Perry's second largest career contributor, Dallas billionaire investor Harold Simmons, got expedited approval of a nuclear waste disposal site situated in West Texas and underlain by four major aquifers.

A suitable disposal site for mined geologic waste must include the following characteristics: the rock mass's previous geologic history should indicate probable stability for the next 10,000 years or more; it should be relatively isolated from circulating ground water; it must be capable of containing waste without losing its desirable properties; and it must be amenable to technical analysis.

MOSCOW (Reuters)- An explosion ripped through an ammunition disposal site in central Russia on Wednesday, killing six soldiers and injuring four, RIA news agency reported, citing an unidentified law enforcement official.

«DEC never intended, nor agreed, that Iowa Pacific should turn this corridor in the pristine, forever wild wilderness of the Adirondack Park into a commercial disposal site,» said the DEC in a statement.

Last month, the State Department of Environmental Conservation along with the New York Department of State said there are several concerns with the proposed designations starting with the eastern Long Island Sound disposal site as being unnecessary, according to the governor.

New York is taking steps to file a legal challenge against the Environmental Protection Agency aimed at blocking the designation of a water disposal site near the coast of eastern Long Island.

The new disposal site is in the eastern part of the Sound, less than a quarter of a mile out of New York waters.

The proposal, pushed by County Executive Mike Hein, would require all trash haulers, public and private, in Ulster County to take their garbage to RRA disposal site in the Town of Ulster and pay tipping fees to the agency.

The household product was used to absorb liquid in radioactive debris at a waste disposal site in New Mexico where a radiation escaped to the surface and exposed 21 workers

To see if this was true, Lloyd's team studied a lime kiln site in the UK's Peak District to see if microbes could be found growing in conditions similar to those that would be expected in a nuclear disposal site.

It would be transformed into a physically stable form — perhaps a glasslike substance — and then shipped to Yucca Mountain or some other permanent disposal site.

The mishap at the U.S. Energy Department facility exposed 22 workers to low levels of radiation and ranks as one of the few black marks on the safety record at the disposal site since it opened in 1999.

Germany, like the United States, has no long - term disposal site for high - level radioactive waste.

However, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food wants to study the Soviet dump to improve understanding of the behaviour of radionuclides around a disposal site.

Billions of dollars have been spent to evaluate Yucca Mountain as disposal site for radioactive waste since the 1970s.

A disposal site on Yucca Mountain would need to hold up to 77,000 tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste for up to 1 million years.