Mining companies provide reclamation bonds that cover only a small fraction of the costs of cleaning up these contaminated sites.

At the same time the council was sending environmental health officers in to the possibly contaminated sites as soon as they were named by the police.

The funds generated by pollution taxes could be used to clean up contaminated sites, address air pollution, water pollution and climate change, or invested in developing cleaner technologies.

Virtually all the land areas of the site contain contaminated or potentially contaminated sites and potentially buried ordnance.

They will cap the more heavily contaminated sites within the cluster.

Water supply wells located over or near the saltwater wedge can draw the saltwater upward, creating a saltwater cone that might reach and contaminate the well.

On the island's east coast, the tsunami contaminated wells on which many villagers relied for drinking water.

A growing number of jurisdictions have outlawed open-loop systems that drain to the surface because these may drain aquifers or contaminate wells.

Cesspits contaminated the wells which many people still used to get their water.

While this made removal of solid waste easier, the seeping liquid waste often contaminated well water sources, creating public health problems.

It causes brain tissue and nerve damage and can be used to contaminate food, water or even be sprayed into the air using aerosols.

Pesticides can leave a residue that can contaminate food products stored near it.

They do not cause major damage, but they can contaminate food, damage paper goods, and stain clothing.

Pollutants such as metals and pesticides seep into soil and contaminate food supplies, reducing the amount of land suitable for agricultural production.

Symptoms generally appear within hours of eating contaminated food but this can also take days.

Environmental groups maintain that this activity can cause tiny earthquakes and that the toxic chemicals used in fracking may contaminate groundwater.

Under some conditions, certain herbicides can be transported via leaching or surface runoff to contaminate groundwater or distant surface water sources.

With the contaminated groundwater levels rising rapidly, scientists have speculated on what will happen when the deadly pollutant reaches the surface.

It contaminated groundwater and caused the water table to rise, making the soil saline and unproductive.

Plans by gas companies to hydraulically fracture, or frack, gas have attracted protests from environmentalists, who argue that the practice risks contaminating groundwater.

They also contain asbestos, which would contaminate land for miles around the site.

Tasks range from environmental audits to contaminated land reclamation and river control works.

This covered waste management, air quality, asbestos, contaminated land and water quality.

Local authority searches include proposals for roads and railways that would affect the property, planning permissions and whether the house stands on contaminated land.

That we treat all beaches as contaminated land and pave them over?

He claimed the test result must have been caused by contaminated meat he had eaten.

The suspension was lifted with the declaration that there 'was a significant probability' that he had consumed contaminated meat.

There have been some incidents in several sports where clenbuterol findings have been attributed to contaminated meat, especially in countries where cattle are given supplements to boost muscle mass.

No contaminated meat reached consumers, the agency said.

He blamed it on eating 'contaminated meat'.

Indirectly, communities are exposed to wildfire debris that can contaminate soil and water supplies.

When placed in a landfill, these materials can pollute the air and contaminate soil and drinking water.

Hundreds of acres of knotweed and contaminated soil have been removed in a project that has accomplished 60 years of regeneration in six.

It specialises in cleaning up contaminated soil and ship waste water.

The waste and more than two tonnes of contaminated soil were removed.

Pollution from oil exploitation could destroy the park's fragile habitats and contaminate the air, water and soil.

Unknown to them, this causes the deadly gas to contaminate the air and bring forth a toxic rainfall.

If the gas contaminates the air supply, then many rubber diaphragms are at risk from the problem.

How dangerous a chemical can be also depends on how easily it can spread and contaminate the environment.

Feeding antibiotics to livestock on a mass scale creates resistant bacteria that can contaminate the environment and be transferred to humans.

The use of chemicals for the treatment of a hydrocarbon polluted site may contaminate the environment with their by-products, whereas biological treatment may efficiently destroy pollutants, while being biodegradable themselves.

Demonstrators claim fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, can cause earthquakes and contaminate water supplies.

But protesters claim it can cause earthquakes and contaminate water supplies.

Food production would be thrown into disarray as ash would contaminate water supplies and smother crops over tens of millions of square kilometres.

They carry diseases, eat sea turtle eggs and livestock, contaminate water supplies and ruin crops.

Critics say that as well as creating fresh carbon emissions, fracking causes earthquakes and can contaminate water sources.