Sentence examples for found to be polluted from inspiring English sources

High-risk areas were identified either because sediments were found to be polluted or because factories and sewage treatment plants are known to be adding pollutants to the water.

Relocation plans have been accelerated but this has also run into complications because the site of the new homes has also been found to be polluted.

Last year the Environmental Protection Agency put a decontamination system that passes water through ultraviolet light on her well and many others in her neighborhood, at no cost to them, that were found to be polluted with an industrial chemical.

Concerned scientists point out that the organisms upon which the whales feed have also been found to be polluted, and note that the area has Canada's highest level of birth defects, although no direct cause-effect relationship has been shown.

Overall, the ground-water samples collected around the dumpsite were found to be polluted and are unfit for human consumption but can be used for irrigation purpose with heavy drainage and irrigation patterns to control the salinity.

Despite of cleaning attempt, the well was found to be polluted with dead and decaying bodies of birds, their fecal material and garbage which supported our suspicion regarding its involvement in disease outbreak.

Industrial and municipal users have not been found to be polluting the environment nor recycling wastewater, some of which is treated before discharge.

Almost 70% of the samples were found to be "lightly polluted" with pollution levels twice the national standard.

Around 7% were found to be "heavily polluted" with levels more than five times the national standard.

Hand-dug wells in Atebubu were found to be grossly polluted and unsafe for drinking.

In July, it was fined £1,000 after a stream beside a wastewater treatment works in Greysteel, County Londonderry was found to be visibly polluted.