1. As small waves slapped our turquoise craft, we passed corrals of a cattle auction house, then a remarkably mild-smelling municipal sewage plant. 2. However, city officials said the process as originally designed was hopelessly inadequate at getting the water out of municipal sewage sludge. 3. In the United States, waste pumped from passenger aircraft is usually treated in municipal sewage works, Sobsey says. 4. It also washed over hundreds of municipal sewage treatment facilities and hog-farm lagoons. 5. Thirty years ago, the streams and waterways in his district were little more than sumps for municipal sewage and industrial wastes. 6. Environmentalists have suggested the state should impose restrictions that could remove animal waste lagoons, as well as municipal sewage plants, from flood-prone areas. 7. One measure Diggins would like to see is moving potential pollution sources like municipal sewage plants, animal waste lagoons and junkyards out of flood plains. 8. Steven Cohen, a spokesman for the National Pork Producers Council in Washington, noted the floods also washed out municipal sewage plants and poultry and cattle farmers. 9. The World Bank has provided millions of dollars to construct plants to treat municipal sewage and industrial waste but has little to show for its efforts. |