The quintessential symbol of motherhood is a mama duck being followed dutifully by her chicks, waddling across perilous terrain, facing imminent danger, until reaching the safety of a pond or lake.
The final design incorporated information on relevant biological parameters and safety features including peak pond temperature, independent aeration and water pressure control mechanisms.
For a small child, they are great: Unruffled, never chilly, shallow at the edges and fringed by beach, the ponds offer all the ease and safety of enormously large and beautiful bathtubs.
The pond, he said, is not part of the safety equipment required for safe shutdown.
Then I took it back to the pond and, after a brief primer on pedestrian safety, set it free.
Therefore, tailings pond anti-seepage technology is particularly important in safety management of tailings pond, which provides a technical support for design, construction and management of tailings pond and guarantee to decrease environmental pollution and disaster accidents.
Despite the minimal cleanup, ongoing inquiry, and potential safety hazards posed by the failed tailings pond, the open-pit copper and gold mine could be up and running again as early as June.
Every year, there are million tons of bottom ash waste in piles and ponds adjoining the power stations threatening the health and safety of our life.
But all's not lost: just because I'll be eating braised cygnets tonight doesn't mean I wasn't genuinely anxious for their safety when I counted them on the duck pond this morning.
I will arrange the class behind me, like a mother goose leading a band of downy chicks across a pond, and we will move as fast as we can to safety.
