Sentences with phrase «into nearby rivers»

This dependence on vast amounts of coal - fired power, on top of adding to our climate woes and air pollution issues, also has an impact on the communities surrounding coal plants, thanks to the insidious effects of coal ash (the leftover material from burning coal as a fuel) in disposal ponds, which often leak slowly into groundwater or which can «spill» into nearby rivers or lakes, polluting a natural resource that we all rely on.

A Massachusetts conservation group says it will sue ExxonMobil for failing to protect the Boston harbor area from an old, leaky oil terminal that spews toxic material into nearby rivers, charging that the company's dual...

The acid can then drain into nearby rivers, lakes and ground water sources — a phenomenon called acid mine drainage.

«Uranium dissolved in groundwater flows slowly into nearby rivers, where it becomes diluted below the uranium concentrations naturally present in river water,» says John Bargar, SLAC's project lead and researcher at the lab's Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.

No matter how you burn it, you still have to mine it — dumping West Virginia mountaintops into nearby rivers, gouging huge scars into the earth in Montana or Wyoming, and exposing miners to the risk of injury or death.

Black carbon typically leaves the soil when rain water carries the material into nearby rivers.

They then threw themselves into a nearby river and drowned.

In one U.S. town, one such company is responsible for discharging approximately 50 million gallons / day of wastewater into a nearby river.

This sends ice tumbling into a nearby river, damming it to create a temporary lake that can suddenly inundate nearby villages.

During Mount Saint Helens's May 18, 1980, eruption, the top 1,300 feet of the volcano crumbled, initiating a steam - powered blast that tore off the peak's north flank and sent more than 5 billion cubic feet of volcanic mud flowing into nearby river channels.

The executioners gathered some of the remains into trash bags and allegedly dumped them into a nearby river, where they were later recovered; other remains were found in the dump itself.

... studied the life cycle of trout and worked with the California Department of Fish and Game and a fly - fishing group to hatch and release trout into a nearby river.

Along with a porous paving system and a network of natural swales, the living roof will retain storm water, allowing it to percolate slowly through the soil rather than flow swiftly from impervious surfaces into the nearby river.

In urban or developed areas, stormwater runs over pavement and parking lots, picking up oil and other pollutants before flowing into a nearby river or stream.

Similarly, in the southern China city of Guangzhou, disposing toxic sludge into the nearby river required nothing more than a hired boat.

Not exact matches

The Committee noted that a federal investigation into the famous 2010 pipeline spill in Marshall, Michigan, which released some 20,000 barrels of dilbit into the nearby Kalamazoo River, «did not report that specific properties of the products transported through the pipeline at the time of the event or in the past had caused or contributed to the pipeline damage.»

In 2003, Werkhoven Dairy entered into discussions with the Tulalip tribe and the NW Chinook Salmon Recovery Program to figure out how to help preserve sensitive salmon spawning reaches in the nearby Skykomish River.

For three decades the chemicals were dumped into the nearby Hudson River.

And a cleanup continues of oil from the transformer that leaked into the nearby Hudson River.

In Monrovia, Liberia's capital, «the true number of deaths will likely never be known,» WHO wrote — some of the bodies have simply been thrown into the two nearby rivers.

On Monday, as many as nine or 10 cars on the CSX train erupted in flames following the derailment, and at least one careened into the nearby Kanawha River.

Nearly all water needed to supply cities, farms, and industry accumulates as snow in nearby or distant mountain ranges melts and runs down into rivers used to irrigate crops, sustains fish and wildlife, and quenches...

Burger gazes across his plot to the south toward the nearby creek that feeds into the Sacramento River and finally into the Pacific Ocean.

The scientists have also detected resistance genes for sulphonamides and another antibiotic in the treated wastewater — which will be turned into snow at a nearby ski resort, in a relatively pristine part of a river basin, later this year.

With a sudden gush, some 3 million gallons (about 11 million liters) of acidic, heavy - metal - laden water flooded into Cement Creek, a tributary of the nearby Animas River.

DOE has spent billions of dollars over several decades trying to prevent a hazardous stew of wastes produced during and after World War II and stored in dozens of underground tanks from leaking into the nearby Columbia River.

As fertilizer used on Midwestern corn and soybeans runs off fields and into nearby streams, it ends up, eventually, in the Mississippi River.

The geese were captures, and released into the nearby Charles River.

In warm months, you can plunge into the emerald pools that collect along the nearby South Yuba River.

A flat screen TV faced the bed, although the views from a balcony provided a glimpse into a portion of the Watergate Complex and the Potomac River, as well as parts of nearby Georgetown, and competed with the television many a time.

The Thai capital, Bangkok and the nearby provinces surround the base of the Chao Phraya river delta as it empties out into the Gulf of Thailand.

Nutrients flow into the sea from plant and animals from nearby rivers and creeks, the nutrients are then broken down into chemical nutrients by bacteria and this enables the reef to thrive and grow.

You can cross small rivers, climb up into hilly green pastures with ocean views, or take a day trip to nearby Montezuma to hike to the stunning waterfall.

Arsana means «flow» in Sanskrit, and not only does the villa's name aptly describe the way The Arsana Estate's individual bedroom and living pavilions cascade down the hillside into the nearby valley, but also the Sungi River that meanders past its lower boundary.

Further adventures are also possible, with the school organizing treks into the nearby rainforest, canoeing opportunities in local rivers, and expeditions to other exciting destinations across Costa Rica.

Nearby is a small, painted - bronze cast of a river stone, and across the room a handprint has been impressed into a white wall.

A CBS News 60 Minutes segment about the spill focused on the lack of federal regulation of coal ash and the impact of the spill on the affluent homeowners nearby, describing how «a billion gallons of muck shot into the Emory River like a black tsunami.»

Rather than dumping waste heat to a nearby river, lake or ocean or simply letting the heat dissipate into the sky, a CHP plant reuses it for heating, cooling and steam production.

Nearby, in the bed of the Truckee River, which now drains Lake Tahoe into the Nevada desert, there are the remains of a forest from the same period.

Here the silt deposition from these two mighty rivers causing the submergence of Mangroves and hutments; (4) Also, destruction of Coastline for commercial activities and destruction of Mangroves allowed sea water entering into nearby villages and thus people are attributing it to sea level rise; (5) In several parts, sea sand is lifted for other uses and thus causing the sea water entering in to nearby areas; and (6) Boston area was filled [artificially built] and with the storm surges it looks something happened.

They claim that the mine could drain acid into the nearby Salmon Trout River and disturb land considered sacred to a local Indian tribe.

It then passes back into New Jersey in Bayonne, traveling up through Jersey City, before crossing underneath the Hudson River, entering Manhattan at Gansevoort and West Street (see map below)-- pretty much right at the end of The High Line elevated park and the site where the Whitney Museum's downtown expansion is already under construction — and where, nearby, there will be an underground storage vault for natural gas.

A collision occurred on the Delaware River as a tugboat, unresponsive to the repeated calls made by a Duck Boat and nearby ships, crashed right into the stalled tour boat.

The name of the city originated from two parallel waterfalls located in the nearby Snake River Canyon, which have since merged into one waterfall due to the construction of the Twin Falls dam.

Fly - fish on the nearby Big Horn River or head into the mountains to access smaller streams.