Sentence examples for sediments contaminated from inspiring English sources
Members of the species P. putida show a diverse spectrum of metabolic activities, which is indicative of their adaptation to various niches, which includes the ability to live in soils and sediments contaminated with high concentrations of heavy metals and organic contaminants.
The utility says radioactive elements have mostly remained near the embankment inside the bay, but experts have reported offshore "hot spots" of sediments contaminated with high levels of cesium.
Sediments contaminated with heavy metals due to past disposal practices threaten the environment and require remediation.
In this study, roach were exposed to three samples of sediments contaminated with DLCs under simulated sediment re-suspension conditions.
Nonetheless, direct measurements of c free with equilibrium sampling techniques have the potential to substantially improve risk assessment and management of sediments contaminated with HOCs [57].
Electrokinetic remediation is a developing remediation technology for the restoration of soils, sludge and sediments contaminated with inorganic and/or organic compounds.
For example, zebra mussels both bioconcentrate PAHs from the water column, thus reducing PAHs that reach sediments, and deposit contaminated feces and pseudofeces, thus increasing PAH concentrations in sediments.
That stopped the creek from burying sediment contaminated by Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCBs) from an old capacitor plant upstream.
The slow-motion breach at the end of March was intended to minimize the effects of releasing of sediment contaminated with heavy metals captured behind the dam.
It's hard enough to clean an urban waterway when there's one pollutant of concern, as with the Hudson River, where the E.P.A. is overseeing General Electric's removal of sediment contaminated with PCBs that the company dumped there decades ago.
The authors attributed this response to erosion and overland flow during storm events transporting and depositing terrestrial derived sediment, contaminated with the herbicide, into the stream channel.
