The radioactive sludge at the bottom of the pool will then be pumped into a new tank that is now under construction beside B29.
Peering into the vat, the officers noticed sludge at the bottom, which one described as having a "very sickening" smell, "something dead around it'.
The County Board of Acquisition and Contract has authorized spending $22.6 million to dispose of sewage sludge at its Ossining plant next to the Hudson River.
Even if the city voided the contract, the plant operators could sign a deal with a different municipality to process sewage sludge at the Hunts Point site.
SQUELCHING barefoot in the sludge at Ramlila Maidan, a park in central Delhi, a middle-aged man praises the people's love for his guru, Anna Hazare.
The most significant pieces were found buried in sludge at the bottom of several wells in the city's north-west palace.
Expensive brown sludge at that: the worktop is scattered with about £20 worth of ingredients, all impeccably sourced and beautifully packaged, yet somehow they have combined to create something that looks like baby poo.
Until the late 1980s, the city routinely poured untreated sewage into the harbor; in 1992, it became the last city in the country to halt the practice of dumping sewage sludge at sea.
The lesson in how to "shoot, edit and distribute" a 60-second report using a mobile phone in less than 10 minutes is considered as important as learning how to invade airport runways or throw sludge at politicians.
The ballast exchange, however, leaves residual alien species unscathed in the 100 to 200 tons of unpumpable sludge at the bottom of ballast tanks of the 500 or so foreign vessels that traverse the lakes annually.
The wall of a reservoir holding the remaining 500,000 cubic metres of toxic sludge at a Hungarian alumina plant has cracked and could soon break, unleashing a fresh corrosive torrent.
