Sentences with phrase «waste dump site»

«Scenarios in the past have involved a goose kill on a lake, a break - in at the water quality lab, food tampering at a restaurant, faked primitive artifacts at an archeological dig, and an illegal toxic waste dump site.»

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site in Nevada gets a $ 120 million reboot on licensing for the project in the White House's 2018 budget blueprint for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Other environmental concerns relate to the radioactive contamination of the Arctic Ocean from, for example, Russian radioactive waste dump sites in the Kara Sea [42] and Cold War nuclear test sites such as Novaya Zemlya.

Not exact matches

Some 430,000 gallons of nuclear waste effluent have gradually leaked from a dump site at Hanford, Washington, threatening the ecology of the Columbia River system.

Shipping the soil to a dump site for hazardous waste would have cost $ 450,000, he said.

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.

In addition to permitted construction debris, household waste, which is not allowed at the site, has been observed inside and around the dump.

Also worthy of commendation is the breakthrough recorded by the government in ridding Enugu metropolis of waste, especially at dump sites to ensure a clean environment, through the taskforce constituted to complement the efforts of the Enugu State Waste Management Authority (ESWAMA).

The Dewey Loeffel site in the Town of Nassau was a dumping ground for industrial waste in the 1950s and 60s.

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst - a sixteen - acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

The acreage where waste is buried is relatively small, he said, but the risks are significantly higher because the dump sites are spread across such a large area.

It also gives the location of nearby environmental trouble spots, including brownfield sites, hazardous waste dumps and chemical plants.

Regulators failed to collect air samples in the week following a radiation release at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump because of a vacancy in the office responsible for monitoring the site

But permitting a dump site for Class B and Class C material is almost as difficult as siting a high - level waste dump.

He found 72 toxic chemicals exuding from the hazardous waste sites, but 113 at dumps taking household waste.

The P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow proposes to study ocean rift zones, subduction zones, and the sites of nuclear and toxic waste dumps.

The human waste, rife with iron, would be especially useful if dumped at sites loaded with cadmium, lead, and arsenic.

Ramos» neighborhood is part of the Parker Street hazardous waste site, approximately 114 acres that include two schools, homes and commercial properties built atop fill contaminated with PCBs from an old municipal burn dump.

For forty years, the contractors who ran Hanford dumped their nuclear and chemical waste more or less indiscriminately throughout the site, which covers an area of 1456 square kilometres.

When scientists at the University of Delhi in India took soil samples from a pesticide dump and compared them with samples from a cleaner control site, they reported that the soil from the waste site contained a higher concentration of gene sequences from certain bacterial groups, such as Pseudomonas, Novosphingobium and Sphingomonas, that are known to degrade common pesticides like hexachlorocyclohexane.

In developed countries, having those nasties eliminated by pyrolyzing the wastes would greatly reduces the expenses in maintaining dump sites.

Every waste dump in the U.S. leaks radiation into the environment, and nuclear plants themselves are running out of ways to store highly radioactive waste on site.

Its an effort that would require shipping coal by rail to the coast, and dredging and dumping waste in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage site in order to expand ports and channels for shipping the coal to India.

According to EPA, state testing of the waste dumped at the site found lead levels three to four times higher than the Illinois standard allowed.

However, the proposed site of the new mega-base is situated precariously close to a serious environmental nuisance.The facility in question, Ramat Hovav, is a combination industrial area and toxic waste dump, and has been a serious nuisance to residents of Israel's desert south for years.

By the late 1980s, however, any gains from upgrading sewer treatments would be offset by the additional pollution load coming from people who moved from on - site septic tanks to public sewers, which dump the waste into rivers.

As for Yucca Mountain, much of the outrage appears to originate in the perceived unfairness of having Nevada proposed as the sole dump site for the waste of an entire nation.

Now before you jump into your nuclear - waste protection suits and dump all your Ecover products into a toxic waste site, what does this all mean?

Their waste is just dumped into the atmosphere, and isn't this site all about discussing the problems that is causing?

It all seems to derive from an official Swedish government site which writes that «With its ongoing recycling revolution, less than one per cent of Sweden's household waste ends up in a rubbish dump» and comes with an impressive video, which Mike covered earlier in TreeHugger.

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