Word: effluent
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...Kane County, Illinois who has been harassing polluters. His actions have included hanging on a railroad bridge a 60 foot banner that said, "We're involved-in killing Lake Michigan, U. S. Steel." He has also blocked industrial drainage systems, scaled off polluting smokestacks, and dumped the effluent of a corporation in the lobby of its headquarters...
...early 1960s, though, boatmen and lawmen have agreed that old-fashioned heads are no longer adequate. But they differ strongly in their assessment of two newer ways to control boat sewage: 1) "primary treatment" on board in a device known as a macerater-chlorinator, which vents the purified effluent over the side; or 2) an on-board holding tank requiring that the effluent be pumped out at a dockside station, which in turn pumps it into a local sewage-disposal system...
...devices with small holding tanks good for about 50 flushes, which can then be carried ashore and spilled into the nearest toilet. Whatever the size of a holding tank, however, critics point out that its contents end up in municipal sewage plants -which in turn dump their often undertreated effluent into waterways...
...steel antisubmarine barrier net between the shore and the island of Cayo Carenas and have installed antiaircraft emplacements. They have also built a pier for docking submarines and elaborate rest and recreation facilities. The bay now contains two storage barges designed to receive the discharges of nuclear-contaminated effluent from submarines. The tender that touched off the September announcement is still cruising the Caribbean, and could return to Cienfuegos at any time...
Thermal pollution can be equally useful. Not only trout but oysters and other shellfish have been grown more rapidly in the hot effluent from power plants. Indeed, one New York producer, who raises his oysters in the Long Island Lighting Co.'s cooling ponds, says that they reach full size in less than three years (v. four to five years normally). Even more spectacular results have been reported by the Scots. By placing sole and plaice in water discharged from an atomic generator, they have raised the fish in six to eight months (v. three to four years...