1.   Leaking oil and spilled water around the wellhead percolates through to the groundwater, carrying pollutants.

2.   But they soon found that even in the center of the Adirondack rain and snow belt, wind carried pollutants from factories hundreds of miles away.

3.   Much of that land is developed, and rain sends water rushing down the pavement in torrents, carrying pollutants like lawn pesticides and oil into Pipers Creek.

4.   Radioactive pollutants were carried primarily to what are now the republics of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

5.   That water carries pollutants, too.

6.   The board is also creating development regulations aimed at treating the initial runoff from new construction, which Dickerson said carries more pollutants than later runoff.

7.   Acid rain is caused when pollutants are carried east on winds from Midwest smokestacks and mix with water vapor in clouds over the Adirondacks.

8.   Aleman contends that two branches of the river in Costa Rica have carried the pollutants into Nicaragua.

9.   As the pollutants are carried downstream to the Atlantic, fish will likely die.

10.   He reiterated worries that the rain itself could be a problem because it will be more acidic that usual and will carry other pollutants from the atmosphere.