Sentence examples for impoundment that from inspiring English sources

In October of last year, Massey refused to pay for the cost of relocating a school that sat only 300 feet downhill from a new coal-slurry impoundment that the company was building -- an impoundment that threatened the health and lives of the children.

But this fairy tale collapsed on Dec. 22 along with the impoundment that contained one billion gallons of wet coal sludge, which -- like a tsunami of toxic waste -- buried thousands of acres, many of then inhabited, in Roane County, Tennessee.

Despite pleas and protests by local residents, Massey Energy is operating a reckless strip mine near the Bee Tree branch of Coal River Mountain, blasting outrageously close to the multi-billion gallon coal slurry impoundment that is held back by a weakened earthen dam.

Despite pleas and protests by local residents, as part of the reckless mountaintop removal plans for Coal River Mountain, Massey Energy is now operating a strip mine near the Bee Tree branch of the mountain, blasting outrageously close to a multi-billion gallon coal slurry impoundment that is held back by a weakened earthen dam.

Selection of representative hazardous/priority hazardous metals for the studied impoundments, that allowed to classify the tailings by contamination indices and to highlight the differences between the impoundments related to contaminants influence on the environmental quality.

Selection of representative hazardous/priority hazardous metals for the studied impoundments, that allowed to classify the tailings by contamination indices and to highlight the differences between the impoundments related to contaminants influence on the environmental quality   iii.

In current practice, CCPW is typically disposed separately as a structural fill in surface disposal areas, while FCPW is disposed as a dilute slurry (about 15% solids) in impoundments that provide an overall lower disposal cost (NRC 2002).

The regulations restrict where new coal ash impoundments and landfills can be built, mandates utilities to monitor storage facilities and repair leaks, and forces the closure of impoundments that don't meet standards for structural integrity.

Second, impoundments that restrict immature and adult fish to the lower reaches increases local densities and therefore competition for resources and cannibalism of juveniles [55].

The actual disposal footprint must be much larger, says Earthjustice attorney Lisa Evans, because the spreadsheet excluded landfills and older impoundments that have dried out, and the area of 74 impoundments was withheld as "confidential business information".

In September 2009, in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, the U.S. EPA released a spreadsheet to Earthjustice listing 29,350 acres of impoundments that contain liquid coal waste and may still be receiving waste.