One of the greatest challenges of our time is the ever-increasing water stress induced by the global climate crisis 1,2,3,4,5. Water quantity is not the only one issue; the degradation of freshwater ...

Drums of radioactive sludge from Sellafield's Pile Fuel Storage Pond - the world's oldest nuclear storage pond - have been processed in the site's encapsulation plant for the first time. The waste is ...

Baldwin County Sewer Service will have to remove a sludge pond at their Fort Morgan treatment facility, if the Gulf Shores City Council follows the recommendation of the city’s planning commission.

De-sludging activities have begun in the Windscale Pile Fuel Storage Pond at the Sellafield site in the UK. Plant operators are being assisted in the project by Metal Mickey, a remotely operated ...

The build-up of solids or sludge in an effluent system can be problematic as it can reduce the storage volume in single-pond systems and increase transfer of solids into the second pond or storage ...

The sludge in West Longview’s old sewage treatment ponds appears to meet state and federal standards for removal and use elsewhere as a soil amendment, which would allow the city to reclaim the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... State health officials are letting Cotter Corp. dump 90,000 gallons of radioactive sludge and solvents from its uranium mill into an impoundment pond the ...

Plastic contamination of terrestrial ecosystems and arable soils pose potentially negative impacts on several soil functions. Whereas substantial plastic contamination is now traceable in ...