"Those heavy metals are going to migrate into the water," he said, "unless they're taken out".
In coastal waters many larger invertebrates (e.g., mysids, amphipods, and polychaete worms) leave the cover of algae and sediments to migrate into the water column at night.
Such toxins pose an environmental problem if they are released into the air with plant emissions or if they are dispersed in the soil, allowed to migrate into ground water supplies, and work their way into the food chain.
In the meanwhile, these degraded, hydrophobic, high surface area plastic residues migrate into the water table and other compartments of the ecosystem causing irreparable harm to the environment [25].
A few species migrate into offshore waters to feed at night.
Although many of the benthic species are restricted to a particular type of bottom and are found only within a certain depth range, most migrate into coastal waters in the spring and remain there during the warm season.
Authorities, fearing that the fish could migrate into the waters of the Hudson River and wreak havoc in the ecosystem across the state, used an aquatic pesticide to kill the snakeheads.
Some researchers have suggested that the whales migrate into Hawaiian waters primarily in the autumn and winter.
Additionally, glass eel waves can mix in front of continental coasts while waiting for favorable conditions to migrate into inland waters (Boëtius and Boëtius 1989; Tsukamoto et al. 1998).
The intention is to prevent the soils from migrating into the water line, or to prevent the water from seeping onto the land and carrying the soils away with it.[26].[26]
