Evaporation Ponds

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Evaporation Ponds: - Areas where sewage sludge is dumped and dried.
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Intel pond stench stirs residents to organize  -  Jul 30, 2008
Arizona Republic,30, 2008 06:02 PM Chandler is calling on the state to examine potential health effects of "rotten egg" odors coming from Intel evaporation ponds and drawing

Intel stinks  -  Jul 11, 2008
Register,As it turns out, the stench comes from organic material collected in city-owned and, yes, Intel-built evaporation ponds. That's a big thanks then to

Intel water recycling stinking up Chandler subdivision  -  Jul 9, 2008
Arizona Republic,9, 2008 02:33 PM Foul "rotten egg" odors from city-owned evaporation ponds have residents in the Fonte Al Sol neighborhood in southeastern Chandler holding

Intel causes a stink  -  Jul 10, 2008
Inquirer,By Aharon Etengoff: Thursday, 10 July 2008, 5:05 PM FOUL SULPHURIC odoors emanating from evaporation ponds have residents in the Arizona town of Chandler up

Drainage, water issues a hot topic  -  Jul 31, 2008
Wagin Argus,...“It included drains up to three metres deep and extending for 22 kilometres, with water from two of the drains collected in evaporation ponds.

DESERT RATTLER: Moon Over Mojave  -  Jul 30, 2008
LA City Beat,Here, alongside a thirsty little river that rarely appears above the desert sands, some jackass genius carved a pair of evaporation ponds,

Wastewater to flow into creek  -  Jul 11, 2008
Ballarat Courier,But low evaporation rates this winter have meant the amount of wastewater has exceeded capacity at the treatment plant's onsite evaporation ponds.

Legacy of UT's oil wealth: a denuded landscape  -  Jul 6, 2008
Austin American-Statesman,Salt water emerges from wells along with oil and gas, and for decades, well operators diverted it to evaporation ponds. But the channels and ponds often

Group Seeks to Change Wording Proposed Oil, Gas Rules  -  Jul 26, 2008
istockAnalyst.com,...would require coal-bed methane producers to re-inject all water they pull from the aquifers, rather than storing it in traditional evaporation ponds.

Irrigation technology: Smart water solutions for state's farmers  -  Jul 8, 2008
California Farm Bureau,One grower south of Bakersfield converted evaporation ponds to a solar evaporator like John's," Green said. "He has been so successful that he was able to

South Hill projects to move ahead  -  Jul 25, 2008
Spokane Journal of Business,The storage pond would connect to two 6-acre evaporation ponds that the county operates nearby, as well as to a nearby 20-acre drainage site, called Hazel’s

Southern Africa's coalbed methane gas flaring interest  -  Jul 11, 2008
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly,The by-product water is usually piped to evaporation ponds. The water in the Kalahari is not as briny as in some basins, and Saber intends to study whether

Queensland Government grants funds for coal seam water study  -  Jul 8, 2008
Fluid Handling,This water is currently deemed as waste by-product of the gas extraction and is pumped into purpose-built evaporation ponds. Cottee claims QSG has been able

Great Salt Lake Minerals' expansion plan driven by high fertilizer ...  -  Nov 17, 2007
Salt Lake Tribune,Great Salt Lake Minerals proposes adding 25000 acres of solar evaporation ponds to its western operations in Clyman Bay and 8000 acres of solar ponds to its

Reports: Treatment system, soil cleanup will top $60M for Asarco  -  Nov 29, 2007
Helena Independent Record,The remaining 15 percent of contaminated water would be sent into evaporation ponds on 40 acres just west of East Helena, and the resultant sludge from the

Greens: Plan bad for Great Salt Lake birds  -  Nov 6, 2007
Salt Lake Tribune,Great Salt Lake Minerals of Overland, Kan., wants to build three solar evaporation ponds on 33000 acres. The project would include an 8000-acre pond on the

Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment and Finding of ...  -  Nov 12, 2007
Trading Markets (press release),Rio Algom proposes to excavate its lined evaporation ponds (Ponds 9 and 11 through 21), and place all the contaminated sediments, dikes, and underlying

Cargill to pay fine for toxic brine spill  -  Nov 7, 2007
San Jose Mercury News,Using giant evaporation ponds, Cargill harvests salt around the bay for food, medicine and roads. In the past, the company has sold bittern as a road

A sweet deal for WIlliams Acres Development west of city to hook ...  -  Nov 28, 2007
Gallup Independent,The initial cost of construction of the tie-in, closure of the old lagoons and evaporation ponds, and operating costs run will run nearly $1.5 million.

Cargill Salt to pay $228000 for spill  -  Nov 15, 2007
Fremont Bulletin,Using giant evaporation ponds, Cargill harvests salt around the bay for products that include food, medicine and roads. The company has sold bittern as a

Bair Island closed up to five years  -  Nov 19, 2007
San Mateo Daily Journal,The island was diked in the late 1800s for grazing and later converted into salt evaporation ponds. Inner Bair Island contains the trail loop which draws

Talks between Environmental Protection Minister and Industrial ...  -  Nov 15, 2007
Israel Ministry of the Environment,The action plan is meant to advance wastewater treatment in the area, remediate the evaporation ponds and the national hazardous waste treatment site and

Water recycling efforts funded  -  Nov 6, 2007
Eyre Peninsula Tribune,..."We currently have evaporation ponds - now all that water will go through a reuse system to classb and we'll be able to use it on parks reserves,

Ponds dispute could go to VCAT  -  Aug 22, 2007
ABC Regional Online,A dispute over planned evaporation ponds for a quarry near Swan Hill in Victoria's north-west is likely to end up before Victoria's planning appeals

Bowie Power Plant faces opposition at town hall  -  Aug 23, 2007
Range News,...more for clean energy that did not pollute the atmosphere or fill 60-acre evaporation ponds with sludge - heavily polluted water from the IGCC process.

EPA testing extent of contamination at Anaconda Mine  -  Aug 3, 2007
Nevada Appeal,In late summer the agency constructed and lined two new heap leach evaporation ponds before the fall and winter rain season to prevent overflow of mine

Ramatex closures linked to pollution  -  Jul 30, 2007
Namibian,Ramatex uses large evaporation ponds to store wastewater, but according to a 2004 report by an independent engineering company, not enough water was

In uranium country, life goes on despite contamination fears  -  Aug 2, 2007
Gallup Independent,Following the federal regulations of the time, Rare Metals dumped the damp tailings, the waste product of milling, into unlined evaporation ponds on site.

Energy master plan draws criticism  -  Jul 31, 2007
Grand Junction Sentinel,DeBeque-area resident Kim Weber, who lives within a mile of the Black Mountain Disposal evaporation ponds, said such installations should be required to be




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