Sentence examples for legacy contaminated from inspiring English sources

Central Europe is replete with legacy contaminated sites, commonly called "brownfields".

HOC concentrations in sediment porewater provide a useful assessment of the potential sediment-to-water flux, especially when legacy contaminated sediments are the primary pollution source.

"He wasn't just an isolated coach, with an isolated athlete; he left this legacy that contaminated some of the greatest track stars of the world".

Mercury had been extracted for 500 years, leaving behind a legacy of highly contaminated soils and aqueous ecosystems.

Furthermore, uranium mining and milling operations have generated an enormous legacy of radioactively contaminated soils and groundwater.

Legacy PCBs contaminate food and water, which are already well-known sources of oral exposures.

Oak Ridge may have an inescapable nuclear legacy, with new buildings sprouting beside contaminated ones, but the lab has evolved.

We've also known that young children, the most vulnerable to the neurotoxic effects, can be exposed through dust and soil contaminated by lead's legacy in house paints and gasoline.

Exposure to legacy lead occurs both by ingesting contaminated soils and by inhaling resuspended road dusts and soils.

In late 2007 the Navajo nation asked Congress for a moratorium on uranium mining on Indian lands despite pending state legislation that would require mining companies to set aside a small percentage of their profits as a "legacy fund" to clean up existing contaminated sites and the promise from the companies to use more sustainable mining methods.

Contaminated sediment can release hydrophobic organic contaminants (HOCs) and thereby act as a secondary source of primarily legacy hazardous substances to the water column.