Sentence examples for leaking tank from inspiring English sources

The explosion at the depot, which supplies fuel to much of the south-east, was blamed on a leaking tank.

The leaking tank had just been installed to store toxic water from an underground storage pond that needed to be emptied after it, too, sprang a leak.

Walter Hang, president of Toxics Targeting Inc., said most homeowners do not know that they can be held liable for a leaking tank.

The recent leaking tank was one of hundreds that have been hastily built to hold the 430,000 tons of contaminated water at the plant, and the amount of that water increases at a rate of 400 tons per day.

Workers raced to place sandbags around the leaking tank to stem the spread of the water, contaminated by levels of radioactive cesium and strontium many hundreds of times as high as legal safety limits, according to the operator, Tokyo Electric Power, or Tepco.

The composition of the waste in the leaking tank makes it more likely to corrode, Fletcher says.

But leaking tanks are a nationwide problem.

That money can only be used to clean up spills, not to find and close leaking tanks or enforce the current tank-upgrade regulations, E.P.A. officials said.

Police officials said the petroleum did not come from the station house's own fuel tanks, but had migrated via underground streams from leaking tanks on nearby properties.

Experts say that cleanup efforts in the state have been slow, however, because regulators have tended to remove only leaking tanks, often leaving the spilled chemicals to continue leaking through the ground.

The military wastes have been dear to Mr. Wyden's heart for 30 years: many of them are in leaking tanks at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington, across the Columbia River from his home state, Oregon.