Drainage from abandoned mines is one of the state's worst environmental headaches, impairing 5, 500 miles of waterways.
You and your neighbors must clear downed trees with your own chain saws and pull debris from drainage pipes.
Contaminated water has been abstracted and treated from the mine since 1992 following an drainage burst which caused visible pollution from mine water coloured orange by the high iron content.
Meanwhile, radiation levels 19 times the legal limit were detected in the sea 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the drainage outlets.
The authority said planning permission for apartments on the site had been given in December 2005 but no development had taken place since, aside from minor drainage work.
The last century saw deployment of anti-malarial drugs and a range of control measures, from marsh drainage to insecticides to bednets, across the tropical regions that are the disease's hinterlands.
To address this problem, drainage canals were built going from the heart of the city out to Lake Pontchartrain.
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Lakes also act as a sink for water and material inputs from diverse sources from their surrounding drainage basins.
Aerial photographs from the descent show drainage channels apparently flowing off land into what seems to be a dark ocean, possibly composed of some tarry substance.
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Know your yard: how big it is, where the sun falls during the day, the drainage patterns and where you might want screening from neighbors.
More than 2, 000 miles of streams are polluted by mine drainage, and smallmouth bass in the lower region are suffering from increasing levels of disease, Swartz said.
As regards human consumption, the main source of demand comes from urban communities requiring water for drinking, sanitation and drainage.
While larger local authorities with bigger budgets may find it easy to adapt to the changes, the committee is concerned that the 9, 800 smaller bodies, including parish councils and internal drainage boards, which have been entitled to low-cost services from the Audit Commission, will struggle to cope.
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They are encouraging drillers to use tainted coal mine water to hydraulically fracture gas wells in the Marcellus Shale formation, with the twin goals of diverting pollution from streams and rivers that now run orange with mine drainage and reducing the drillers' reliance on fresh sources of water.
But it abuts a lagoon only a few hundred yards from the coast and is on sandy soil, which facilitates drainage and reduces construction costs.
In addition to the drainage tubes in her chest, she required needle-drainage procedures in her abdomen every week or two to relieve the severe pressure from the litres of fluid that the cancer was producing there.
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