Sentence examples for waste lagoon from inspiring English sources

In 1995, an eight-acre hog waste lagoon in North Carolina burst, sending 25 million gallons of manure into the New River.

The hog waste flows through slotted boards in the barns to a cellar, and then is carried by plastic pipes to a waste lagoon.

Water percolation dynamics through a smectite-dominated clayey vadose zone underlying a dairy waste lagoon, waste channel and their margins was investigated using three independent vadose-zone monitoring systems.

This paper describes concentration measurements downwind of an anaerobic dairy waste lagoon using differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS), tracer ratio flux experiments and the testing of two mechanistic emission models.

The slurry of watered-down coal particles, dirt, rock, clay and traces of heavy metals had burst through the bottom of the A. T. Massey Coal Company's lifeless 72-acre, 2.2-billion-gallon waste lagoon, which sits atop this Appalachian county's struggling and now terrified hollows.

In 1995 heavy rains flooded a hog farm's waste lagoon, pouring 23 million gallons into the New River and Pamlico Sound, fouling drinking water and killing fish.

He raises 4,100 pigs in six barns and has two waste lagoons.

The council said that only 3 of some 4,000 waste lagoons ruptured.

When Hurricane Floyd struck North Carolina in 1999, torrential rain breached six pig waste lagoons, prompting authorities to impose new restrictions.

The flooding is also raising fears about Superfund sites, chemical plants and hog farms with waste lagoons.

When Hurricane Floyd struck North Carolina in 1999, torrential rain breached six pig waste lagoons, prompting the authorities to impose a construction moratorium on new pig farms using lagoons.