When Rhonda Caviedes arrived to visit her parent’s mobile home in March, she stepped outside and caught a whiff of something so foul that she immediately called 911. “The city fire department comes ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The removal of stagnant sludge water from an aeration pond near the Meadow Village topped the Big ...

Baldwin County Sewer Service will have to remove a sludge pond at their Fort Morgan treatment facility, if the Gulf Shores City Council follows the recommendation of the city’s planning commission.

De-sludging activities have begun in the Windscale Pile Fuel Storage Pond at the Sellafield site in the UK. Plant operators are being assisted in the project by Metal Mickey, a remotely operated ...

Last week, more than a billion gallons of coal fly ash, a byproduct of burning coal, spilled across 300 acres of land in Tennessee after a dike burst at a retention pond used to store the ash. Stephen ...

The tailings pond at CNRL's Horizon oilsands project near Fort McKay, Alta. The uncontained western edge of the pond can be seen at the bottom of the picture. ((CBC)) A northern Alberta tailings pond ...

The state Department of Environmental Quality has approved two former sludge holding ponds at Marathon Petroleum Co.'s Garyville refinery as fit for reuse and no longer a risk to human health and the ...

After half a century living alongside an unidentified toxic landfill, residents of Fort Myers’ South Street neighborhood will see a stormwater detention feature, landscaped for better visuals, on the ...

Rescue workers evacuated a Hungarian village Saturday due to a heightened threat of a second deluge of toxic red sludge from a broken reservoir at an alumina plant, officials said. They said that said ...

VADODARA: The ‘Sindhu Sagar’ pond in Varasia is now defecating into a ‘stink hole’, with the pond soon turning into a sludge of faecal water. VADODARA: The ‘Sindhu Sagar’ pond in Varasia is now ...

Radioactive sludge has been transferred out of the world's oldest nuclear fuel pond for the first time, the UK's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Sellafield Ltd announced yesterday. The project ...