News tagged with ground water
'Green Clean:' Researchers Determining Natural Ways To Clean Contaminated Soil
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at North Carolina State University are working to demonstrate that trees can be used to degrade or capture fuels that leak into soil and ground water. Through a process called ...
Critics: Burial site for Hudson PCBs is inadequate
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Later this month, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of West Texas into New York's "pay toilet."
Patience pays off with methanol for uranium bioremediation
Feb 23, 2009 |
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The legacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy development has left ground water and sediment at dozens of sites across the United States and many more around the world contaminated with uranium. The uranium is transported ...
Population growth puts dent in natural resources
Oct 08, 2008 |
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It's a 500-pound gorilla that Robert Criss, Ph.D., professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, sees standing on the speaker's dais at political rallies, debates and ...
Nitrate concentrations of ground water increasing in many areas of the United States
Sep 17, 2008 |
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Nitrate is the most common chemical contaminant in the world's ground water, including in aquifers used for drinking-water supply. Nitrate in drinking water of the United States is regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
Pesticides persist in ground water
Jul 01, 2008 |
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Numerous studies over the past four decades have established that pesticides, which are typically applied at the land surface, can move downward through the unsaturated zone to reach the water table at detectable concentrations. ...
