Sentence examples for slurry pond from inspiring English sources

In 1972, in Buffalo Creek, Ky., a poorly built dam at a slurry pond broke, sending a wall of water over the town below, killing 125 people.

The Project also includes the reclamation of a 180 ha slurry pond which contains ultrasoft soil up to 20 m thickness.

Sand spreading and geotextile fabric that covers an area of 700×900 m has been used for the reclamation of the slurry pond.

Water coming out of the preparation plant is also used to deliver the FCPW into the slurry pond on NE side of the mine permit area.

It's the third worst flood in state history, with the worst one occurring in 1972 -- a rainfall so hard that a dam built over a coal slurry pond had dislodged and ravaged the community of Buffalo Creek, W.V., killing hundreds.

Just six months ago, a pipe at a coal slurry pond in North Carolina opened, leaching 1.1 billion gallons of sludge into a river.

Sandwiched between the bright pink flesh of exposed mountains were enormous slurry ponds of metallic green and gold.

From time to time, one of these slurry ponds breaks, posing a threat to both worker safety and the environment.

Wherever there is mining, coal companies build lakes to hold the water used to wash the coal -- the water in these lakes, called slurry ponds, is a gross, metallic mix of coal dust, mercury, sulfur, arsenic and other chemicals.

Coal burning generates coal ash that is stored in landfills and slurry ponds that are often located near residential communities, signifying high potential for environmental contamination and increasing health risks.

The result of these practices would be increased number of FCPW ponds (slurry ponds) containing a significant amount of recoverable high purity carbon material (Black et al. 1996; Beck 2007).