1.   Contentea Creek rose into one waste lagoon and threatened another one, said Mark Smith.

2.   Require that earthen waste lagoons be lined with glass or concrete to prevent leaks into groundwater.

3.   The agency is easing restrictions on the spreading of waste over fields, but it prohibited reconstruction of severely hurricane-damaged waste lagoons in the flood plain.

4.   The hog waste flows through slotted boards in the barns to a cellar, where plastic pipes carry it to a waste lagoon.

5.   The officials said they feared that waste lagoons at inland hog farms could overflow into streams.

6.   Drinking water has been tainted by overflow from sewage plants and animal waste lagoons.

7.   Environmentalists have suggested the state should impose restrictions that could remove animal waste lagoons, as well as municipal sewage plants, from flood-prone areas.

8.   Flooding caused sewage treatment plants and hog waste lagoons to overflow and contaminate drinking water supplies.

9.   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.

10.   Sewage plants and hog waste lagoons were swamped by the fast, brown waters.