Word: runoffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, are the effects of the farm pesticides and industrial chemicals churning in the silt-encrusted swamps and ponds marooned by subsiding rivers. While hydrologists anticipate that the sheer volume of water will dilute and neutralize any toxicity, no one knows what dangers, if any, are posed by toxic runoff from hundreds of submerged factories, fuel- storage facilities and waste dumps. "Think of all this stuff making a witches' brew of new compounds," says Kevin Coyle, president of American Rivers, an environmental group in Washington. "We have no precedent...
...would comment on the Opel documents, but Piech lashed back at GM in a more personal way. In an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt, Piech implied that Louis Hughes, who heads GM Europe, was waging a vendetta because he lost out to Piech last year in the runoff to be Volkswagen's chairman. Hughes may have the last laugh: if GM makes its charges stick, predicts industry analyst Klaus-Jurgen Meltzner, "either Lopez or Piech would have...
...taking over the eastern Everglades, crowding out the saw grass and choking the algae at the base of the ecosystem's food chain. Cattails now cover 20,000 acres of what was once pristine wetland. Grown thick and tall (some more than 8 ft. high) in the phosphorus-filled runoff of nearby sugar and vegetable plantations, they stand as a symbol of the decades of mismanagement that have brought the famous region to the brink of environmental collapse...
...1950s began laying down a system of ditches so vast that astronauts can spot its outlines from space: 1,400 miles of levees, pipes and canals. Today nature's cycle had been largely replaced by a man-made plumbing system that is polluting the Everglades with the phosphorus-rich runoff that cattails find so nourishing...
...trying to fix. The driving forces behind it included former acting U.S. Attorney Dexter Lehtinen, who filed the first lawsuit, and Carol Browner, who headed Florida's Department of Environmental Regulation from 1991 through '92 and is now chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. To purify the runoff and restore some of the sheetlike flow of the original ecosystem, the state of Florida proposed setting aside around 35,000 acres of cropland to act as "filtering marshes." Irrigation water drained from the fields would be held in the treatment areas until natural action of plant life lowers the phosphorus...