The phrase "acidic runoff" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in environmental discussions, particularly when referring to water that has become acidic due to pollutants or natural processes.
Example: "The study revealed that the acidic runoff from the industrial site was contaminating the nearby river."
Alternatives: "acidic drainage" or "acidic leachate".
The acidic runoff will continue for centuries.
The microbes contribute to the highly acidic runoff that has made the mine a major hazardous waste site under the federal Superfund program.
In fact, the officials said, the new activity would ensure that the acidic runoff from abandoned mine operations would be averted and modern practices of waste management implemented.
It was water laden with heavy metals caused by past and current mining in the area and natural acidic runoff, not cyanide-laced tailings spilled from the Summitville mine.
Besides soil and seawater, scientists are trying to read all the DNA of a bacterial community that contributes to acidic runoff from a former California mine, and of another community of seabed-dwelling microbes that can be used to produce electricity.
Acidic runoff disrupts aquatic ecosystems, and highly acidic soil contaminated by this runoff will not support vegetation, which is unsightly, and can lead to problems with soil erosion.
An unusual partnership linking the federal Forest Service, the environmental group Trout Unlimited, the ski resort owners Snowbird Corporation and Tiffany & Company has been created to clean the acidic mine runoff from the American Fork watershed -- and perhaps spur similar alliances around the West, where mining waste has polluted the headwaters of 40percentt of all watersheds.
The newly exposed shale on the cut face weathers rapidly, allowing air and water into the unexcavated rock, resulting in acidic surface runoff after precipitation events.
The exposure of these sulfide-bearing sediments initiates rapid acid sulfate weathering processes resulting in extremely acidic soils and runoff.
Over two seasons, these four common wetland plants did help remediate acidic, metal-contaminated runoff from a coal storage pile.
Plants that accumulate a small percentage of metals in constructed treatment wetlands can contribute to remediation of acidic, metal contaminated runoff waters from coal mines or processing areas.
