Sentence examples for ineffective remediation from inspiring English sources
Current design limitations and ineffective remediation techniques in wastewater treatment plants have led to concerns about the prevalence of pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) in receiving waters.
Tetracycline accumulation in surface waters, due to its extensive use and ineffective removal by traditional remediation treatments, represents a major environmental problem, leading e.g. to increased antibiotic resistance.
Biological methods for decontamination promise an improved substitute for ineffective and costly physico-chemical remediation methods, although so far only a fraction of the total microbial diversity (i.e. the culturable fraction with metabolic potential) has been harnessed for this purpose.
Initiating medical treatment in the absence of environmental remediation is not only ineffective in reducing children's lead exposure and body burden, but also may cause more harm than good (Chisholm 1992).
Thus far, other remediation methods have proven to be ineffective, impractical, or counterproductive on these sites.
Conventional pump-and-treat remediation methods have been found to be ineffective in removing significant NAPL mass due to low rates of natural dissolution.
The implementation of conventional pump-and-treat remediation for such DNAPL source zones has been ineffective in reducing contaminant concentrations to regulatory end points in acceptable time frames (MacDonald and Kavanaugh 1994; Travis and Doty 1990; U.S. EPA 1996).
Conventional remediation methods that rely on contact with contaminants can be ineffective in fractured media, but thermal methods of remediation involving CVOC stripping at boiling temperature show promise.
The only plausible explanations for why the four sites could still be polluted, four years after Unep found high levels of contamination at each of them, are that no remediation was carried out, or remediation was carried out but was ineffective, or that other spills have occurred since then.
Remediation of mine sites is an engineering concern but to design a remediation plan without understanding the hydrogeochemical processes of contaminant mobilization can lead to ineffective and excessively costly remediation.
