A
holding pond is a designated area where water is collected and stored temporarily, usually for various purposes like irrigation, flood control, or wastewater management. It is like a large, man-made pond that holds and controls the flow of water before it is used or released elsewhere.
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The wastewater is often pumped
into holding ponds where it can leak and settle into surrounding groundwater, and impact wildlife.
An equal punishment was given to two men who dynamited a rainbow
holding pond at a weir.
The compound seeped into the water from a Pacific Gas and Electric facility where it was used to coat cooling towers and discharged into
holding ponds in the 1950s and 1960s.
No fish will appear in
holding ponds during winter, but trash can still be caught in Animal Crossing: New Leaf.
At the end of it all, millions of tons of coal ash laced with toxic metals is dumped every year in landfills and
unstable holding ponds.
If the
dam holding the pond's material were to break, 50,000 people in Ohio would be in immediate danger of a toxic flood.
One of the unresolved questions haunting the coal sector is what to do with the coal ash — the remnant of burning coal — that is accumulating in 194 landfills and 161
holding ponds in 47 states.
Manure from the barn is also scraped by tractor into
a holding pond.
This photo shows one area of
a holding pond at a Lousiana fertilizer factory.
Adding moderate amounts increases crop yields and stabilizes soils while reducing the need to throw huge quantities in landfills or
holding ponds, said Yuncong Li, University of Florida professor of soil and water sciences.
This happened in December, when
a holding pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant spilled over its banks.
Crops across the country are grown in soil amended with coal fly ash — the same substance that caused a massive environmental emergency in December when it gushed from
a holding pond at a Tennessee power plant.
The pond, also called
a holding pond, is the smallest body of water in a Animal Crossing series town.
They petitioned the city to paint signs discouraging dumping, began making presentations to other students and civic groups, and converted
a holding pond at the school into a wetlands area.
Additionally, the pumped - storage plant itself effectively increased the company's efficiency (by pumping water to
a holding pond at night thereby taking advantage of unused generating capacity) while improving its environmental credentials (the hydro plant emitted no air pollution).
According to both the Nashville Tennessean and the Knoxville News - Sentinel,
the holding pond for the ash sludge had problems that went back decades.