The corrosive nature of the ground soil and pressures from a nearby brick wall and telecom unit may have caused a fracture in the cast iron mains pipe, the HSE said in its report.
The mission will involve traversing the planet and drilling six feet into the ground for soil samples, which the rover will be able to examine in its on-board laboratory.
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Powdered white lead used in the manufacture of paint had leeched into the ground and poisoned the soil.
Once the eggs hatch, the larvae drop to the ground and burrow into the soil.
He wades through the rows of fruit-laden plants, which smell faintly of chocolate thanks to the ground cocoa husks fertilizing the soil.
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The seeds of a new economy are sort of in the ground but not quite covered in soil.
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High demand for water amid the heat wave and problems with soil shrinking as the ground warms has resulted in burst pipes and low water pressure in Oklahoma City, prompting officials to issue mandatory water-use restrictions for the first time in at least a decade, according to utilities department spokeswoman Debbie Ragan.
The south London ground staged the first Test on English soil in September 1880 and there have been 91 matches since.
They believe that when phosphate and arsenic compete with one another in the ground, arsenic is displaced out of the soil and can leach into water supplies.
He captured my musical heart in college with his 2002 album Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground.
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Food is ground zero-the place where the economy meets the soil, where profitability meets fertility.
They will look, too, at the amount of ice in the ground, and the temperature and the moisture of the soil.
Those figures were mostly proven bogus by reality, as plans with no knowledge of conditions on the ground failed when confronted with the wildly variable conditions of soil, weather and pests that farmers had spent a lifetime learning to cope with.
He added that the experiment would provide data on how novel crops, such as miscanthus, introduced carbon into the soil and how stable it was once it was in the ground.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then walking out to the rough ground where the biomass is growing (between the stream and the good soil reserved for corn) will tell the story much better than anything I can say in a meeting.
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"People were amazed to see an area that was salty, sandy ground, turn into a lush green forest, that had mushrooms growing from the soil, " Lawton said.
So in the last year of their 17-year life cycle, when the soil temperature reaches about 64 degrees Fahrenheit, they crawl out of the ground by the billions.
Other culprits include the application of fertilizer in the fall, when the ground is bare, and the spreading of manure on the surface, instead of into the soil.
For decades farmers had been spraying Roundup on the ground before planting, killing all leafy weeds in its path with a chemical that conveniently broke down in the soil, so it wouldn't poison crops planted later.
In a number of areas the ground remains frozen beneath the surface, which means excess water will run into rivers instead of being absorbed by the soil.
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