Sentences with phrase «to contaminate the soil»

They cover everything you can think of, from dealing with contaminated soil to growing enough food to start your own business.

You don't want contaminated soil making its way into your house.

Dogs can develop the disease by coming into contact with the infected urine or urine contaminated soil, water, food, or bedding.

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

The fleet of trucks will take away contaminated soil and replace it with new clean dirt.

The researchers report that switchgrass successfully removed up to 40 percent of the PCBs from contaminated soils in lab experiments.

Dogs may get hookworms if they come in contact with the larvae in contaminated soil from infected dogs.

After purifying several of these enzymes, the team tested them in the lab, cleaning up samples of contaminated soil with promising results.

Walking barefoot on contaminated soil provides an ample opportunity for infection of hookworms.

Cleanup of the land that is now Ship Canal Commons involved removing debris, excavating and removing contaminated soil from selected areas and placing a two - foot layer of clean soil over the entire site.

VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan issued the following statement about the temporary suspension of dumping contaminated soils in the Shawnigan Lake watershed:

Alarmed by the link between lead poisoning and violent crime, particularly given New Orleans's high murder rate, in 2006 Chin devised Operation Paydirt / The Fundred Dollar Bill Project, an ongoing interdisciplinary endeavor that continues to generate thousands of children's drawings in an effort to garner funding and support for the development of an effective nationwide method for the remediation of lead contaminated soil.

If you have a pet with this infection, it indicates that you may be at risk for contracting the disease through a common environmental source such as contaminated soil near a waterway.

The Long Island Rail Road will excavate more than 4,750 tons of contaminated soil at seven substations in Queens and Nassau County this year and into early 2016 to remove mercury, lead and other toxins.

Children can pick up infections from contaminated soil by putting their hands in their mouth after playing, although serious consequences of Toxocara infection in people is quite rare, these worms can cause blindness, heart problems and epilepsy in children.

Those arsenic residues will contaminate the soils for many years after the chemicals were sprayed (another reason to be buying organic foods).»

Stover added new insights into the taxonomy, variation, and physiology of the fungus, helped describe its interaction with banana, characterized resistance and susceptibility in banana, studied the influence of edaphic factors on the pathogen, and introduced flood fallowing as a means for cleansing contaminated soil (a practice that was later shown to contribute to the spread of the fungus).

According to the FDA, lead makes its way into food through contaminated soil, but Neltner suspects that processing may also play a role.

San Diego CA Contract employment providing project management and subcontractor management for removal and off - site disposal of an estimated 42,800 tons of PCB contaminated soils from 13 - acre former parking lot at former Riverbank Army Ammunition Plant in Riverbank California for United States Army Corp of Engine...

Michael Broberg Palmgren however, thinks there might also be a positive way to look at the double function of the pumps: «Theoretically it could be possible to breed plants that are effective in clearing contaminated soil of cadmium,» he points out.

Stamets» latest inspiration is to use mushrooms to clean up contaminated soil around Japan's Fukushima meltdown zone.

This summer, project contractors were hard at work excavating contaminated soil from the dump sites and replacing it with clean soil.

The birds apparently have been poisoned by eating worms living in contaminated soil near the old chemical plant.

Humans and other pets risk being infected when coming into contact with contaminated soil because parasite eggs can live for years, even after the «poop pile» has decomposed — which can take over a year.

People become infected with Legionella bacteria by inhaling contaminated water droplets, often from cooling towers or spas, or contaminated soil such as potting mix.

Humans can also become infected by eating improperly washed vegetables that may harbor contaminated soil.

On April 26th 1986 there was an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, reactor number four spewed out huge amounts of radiation contaminating soil, water and atmosphere with the radiation A new show The Unseen: The Red Forest opens at the end of the month at the Continue Reading»

Most adult dogs don't show symptoms but can spread the infection through their feces, which contaminate the soil.

These different roles have resulted in some very positive impacts in early stage development of innovative solutions eg developing Sydney Olympic Park: building materials and energy efficiency design, waste and wastewater recycling, and contaminated soil remediation».

Environment and Climate Change Minister, George Heyman, was accompanied at the announcement by Green MLA Sonia Furstenau, who has been on the forefront of pressing for this review after her own experience (prior to her election) in opposing contaminated soil disposal in her own community.

According to the permit issued Oct. 13, trapshooting over the channel is allowable because extensive environmental testing found that the shot does not contaminate the soil or water.

Tunnel opponents won't be so lucky this time around, but the sheet metal, combined with city noise bylaws that prevent around - the - clock digging, and contaminated soil means the project, which was slated to be completed this spring, has now officially been delayed by a year.

«In Shawnigan Lake, the Christy Clark government is putting the drinking water of more than 12,000 people at risk by allowing a company to dump 100,000 tonnes of contaminated soil uphill from the community's water source.

No picture can show radiation from improperly stored nuclear wastes contaminating the soil.

Remember that solarized soil can become re-infested if contaminated soil is brought into the plot by dirty shoes or tools, so clean all garden shoes and disinfect the rototiller blades, shovels, and hoes with flames from a propane torch before using them.

Above all, Hackney cites the presence of lead on the ground from spent shots that could potentially contaminate the soil and ground water.

David Gullo, board president, said the cleanup plan does not adequately address the most contentious issue: how much of the remaining contaminated soil should be cleared away.

Those producers will be interested in ensuring that their product is not made in some shoddy farm using contaminated soil / water but in good conditions.

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon has started an online petition urging the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to improve its plan for remediating portions of the Bethlehem Steel site to ensure contaminated soil is removed from the city.

The plan, Dixon says, shifts contaminated soil «from one location to another, still on the waterfront, still on that site.»

Then, last year, they declared the landfill a Superfund site, even after 80 truckloads of contaminated soil originally removed from Love Canal were hauled away.

Given that caesium - 137, with its 30 - year half - life, will be around for a while, soil burial sites would have to be monitored to make sure contaminated soil was not exposed by weather, he says.

Migrant workers from Asia might inadvertently have brought contaminated soil with them.

Contaminated soil frequently arrives at the borders through transported items, and is widely recognised as a vector for non-native species, potentially threatening the local agriculture, horticulture and natural ecosystems.

Firing ranges host some of the planet's most heavily contaminated soils.

Cities, with their heavily compacted and often contaminated soils, often struggle to restore blighted spaces.

For example, it costs just $ 15,000 to save an estimated 350 lives by simply digging up radioactive contaminated soil from the Mayak plutonium facility that had been deposited on the shore of the Techa River in the Russian town of Muslyomova.