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Sludge pond and impoundment on Shumate's Branch

Sludge pond and impoundment on Shumate's Branch

Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "Shumate's Branch was settled in the 19th century by Green Clay (son of Charles and Aura Clay) and his wife Betsy Ann, ... More

The Sludge Dam at Shumate's Branch, rising above the Marsh Fork Elementary School

The Sludge Dam at Shumate's Branch, rising above the Marsh Fork Elemen...

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Production. Copper. Rubber lining for large capacity centrifugal pumps are necessary for the pumping of copper sludge and concentrates at the mills of the Utah Copper Company at Magna and Arthur in Utah

Production. Copper. Rubber lining for large capacity centrifugal pumps...

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Graves moved from Shumate's Branch, now the site of a sludge pond.  Dave Bailey's mother and father, Nannie, 1905-1990, and Hubert, 1901-1965.

Graves moved from Shumate's Branch, now the site of a sludge pond. Da...

Event: Memorial Day (or Decoration Day) Weekend at Pineview Cemetery. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial view of sludge impounded at the head of Little Marsh Fork

Aerial view of sludge impounded at the head of Little Marsh Fork

The capacity of this sludge pond is projected at seven billion gallons, with the level of the sludge rising to 2,250 feet above sea level. At the time of this photo, the impoundment contained about 500,000 gall... More

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge Pumping Station, Ernest Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge ...

Significance: Built in 1934-35, this building is directly associated with the conversion of Providence's Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant from the chemical precipitation process to the activated sludge proc... More

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge Pumping Station, Ernest Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge ...

Significance: Built in 1934-35, this building is directly associated with the conversion of Providence's Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant from the chemical precipitation process to the activated sludge proc... More

Coney Island Sewage Treatment Works, Ave. Z, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Sludge pump house, interior

Coney Island Sewage Treatment Works, Ave. Z, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn....

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The Sludge Pond at Shumate's Branch, rising above the Marsh Fork Elementary School, Sundial, WV

The Sludge Pond at Shumate's Branch, rising above the Marsh Fork Eleme...

"Shumate's Branch was settled in the 19th century by Green Clay (son of Charles and Aura Clay) and his wife Betsy Ann, daughter of Jacob and Celia Pettry, who had settled in Hazy Creek. The hollow was home to d... More

Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia

Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia

Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More

Aerial view of sludge impounded on Brushy Fork

Aerial view of sludge impounded on Brushy Fork

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Coney Island Sewage Treatment Works, Ave. Z, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Sludge pump house II

Coney Island Sewage Treatment Works, Ave. Z, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn....

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Coal cleaning plant as viewed from the sludge dam.  The pond is filled with waste from the coal cleaning process.

Coal cleaning plant as viewed from the sludge dam. The pond is filled...

Mountaintop removal and reclamation introduces several new landforms to the coal fields. One of the introduced landforms is the "wet refuse impoundment," a structure designed to store the waste from coal prepar... More

Rosebushes transplanted from Shumate's Branch before it was evacuated to create a sludge pond

Rosebushes transplanted from Shumate's Branch before it was evacuated ...

Event: A visit with Sally Webb. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial view of Shumate's Branch sludge pond

Aerial view of Shumate's Branch sludge pond

Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "Shumate's Branch was settled in the 19th century by Green Clay (son of Charles and Aura Clay) and his wife Betsy Ann, ... More

Mary Hufford speaks with Edwight community members at flood site from leak in sludge dam

Mary Hufford speaks with Edwight community members at flood site from ...

Event: Visit to flood site. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Flood runoff from mine sludge pond

Flood runoff from mine sludge pond

Event: Visit to flood site. Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of the dam from the side of the sludge pond

View of the dam from the side of the sludge pond

Mountaintop removal and reclamation introduces several new landforms to the coal fields. One of the introduced landforms is the "wet refuse impoundment," a structure designed to store the waste from coal prepar... More

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge Pumping Station, Ernest Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge ...

Significance: Built in 1934-35, this building is directly associated with the conversion of Providence's Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant from the chemical precipitation process to the activated sludge proc... More

Coney Island Sewage Treatment Works, Ave. Z, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Sludge pump house I

Coney Island Sewage Treatment Works, Ave. Z, Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn....

Public domain photograph of midcentury American architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia

Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia

Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More

Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia

Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia

Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More

Graves moved from Shumate's Branch, now the site of a sludge pond.  Dave Bailey's mother and father, Nannie, 1905-1990, and Hubert, 1901-1965.

Graves moved from Shumate's Branch, now the site of a sludge pond. Da...

Event: Memorial Day (or Decoration Day) Weekend at Pineview Cemetery. Public domain photograph - grave, cemetery, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aerial view of sludge impounded on Brushy Fork

Aerial view of sludge impounded on Brushy Fork

The capacity of this sludge pond is projected at seven billion gallons, with the level of the sludge rising to 2,250 feet above sea level. At the time of this photo, the impoundment contained about 500,000 gall... More

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Sludge Press House, Ernest Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Sludge Press H...

Significance: The Sludge Press House was one of three buildings constructed in 1899-1900 during the original development of Fields Point for the treatment of sewage by the chemical precipitation process. The b... More

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge Pumping Station, Ernest Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge ...

Significance: Built in 1934-35, this building is directly associated with the conversion of Providence's Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant from the chemical precipitation process to the activated sludge proc... More

View of the valley sludge pond from the mine entrance end to the dam

View of the valley sludge pond from the mine entrance end to the dam

Mountaintop removal and reclamation introduces several new landforms to the coal fields. One of the introduced landforms is the "wet refuse impoundment," a structure designed to store the waste from coal prepar... More

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Sludge Press House, Ernest Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Sludge Press H...

Significance: The Sludge Press House was one of three buildings constructed in 1899-1900 during the original development of Fields Point for the treatment of sewage by the chemical precipitation process. The b... More

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Sludge Press House, Ernest Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Sludge Press H...

Significance: The Sludge Press House was one of three buildings constructed in 1899-1900 during the original development of Fields Point for the treatment of sewage by the chemical precipitation process. The b... More

Bear paw prints on the sludge pond dam

Bear paw prints on the sludge pond dam

Mountaintop removal and reclamation introduces several new landforms to the coal fields. One of the introduced landforms is the "wet refuse impoundment," a structure designed to store the waste from coal prepar... More

Production. Mercury. Drawing off mercury sludge at the end of a condensing system in a New Idria, California extraction plant. Triple-distilled mercury is produced here by the New Idria Quicksilver Mining Company from cinnabar, an ore containing sulfur mercury, mined at a number of workings near the plant

Production. Mercury. Drawing off mercury sludge at the end of a conden...

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Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Sludge Press House, Ernest Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Sludge Press H...

Significance: The Sludge Press House was one of three buildings constructed in 1899-1900 during the original development of Fields Point for the treatment of sewage by the chemical precipitation process. The b... More

Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia

Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia

Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More

Aerial view of sludge impounded on Brushy Fork

Aerial view of sludge impounded on Brushy Fork

The capacity of this sludge pond is projected at seven billion gallons, with the level of the sludge rising to 2,250 feet above sea level. At the time of this photo, the impoundment contained about 500,000 gall... More

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge Pumping Station, Ernest Street, Providence, Providence County, RI

Providence Sewage Treatment System, Fields Point Plant, Return Sludge ...

Significance: Built in 1934-35, this building is directly associated with the conversion of Providence's Fields Point Sewage Treatment Plant from the chemical precipitation process to the activated sludge proc... More