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Volatile organics are also escaping from abandoned landfills and the dumping grounds around former factories.

At the northwestern edge of Georgetown is the abandoned landfill site given the provincial designation K49.

Delhi, the capital of India, has 12 abandoned landfills and three landfills operating beyond their capacity.

It is estimated that the U.S alone could have around 10,000 abandoned landfills which are a potential hazard to those that live nearby.

This estimate is considered low as it does not account for small landfills, landfills not registered with the appropriate agency, or abandoned landfills.

Using abandoned landfills as a canvas, George successfully transforming two brownfields into golf courses-converting overgrown hazardous areas into plush, green recreational turf.

NOTES: The stream is now eroding into the abandoned landfill on Crown Land above Highway 19.

EnCap, a Florida-based company, has already begun preliminary work on a billion dollar effort to transform seven abandoned landfills into four golf courses, a hotel and 2,000 apartments.

Now over 25 years old, the park has been showcasing artworks since it was transformed from five acres of abandoned landfill into an open studio and exhibition space in the 1980s.

Clean-up and engineering studies are under way at the former U.S. Coast Guard Weather Station site on Padloping Island, including this abandoned landfill.

In 1970 he again suspected as the istigator of the murder of Luigi D'Aguanno, a fence found murdered in an abandoned landfill in Moncalieri.

In 1986, American sculptor Mark di Suvero created Socrates Sculpture Park on an abandoned landfill and illegal dumpsite in Long Island City.

A suit seeking to stop Atlantic City from giving a 150-acre abandoned landfill to a casino developer, Stephen A. Wynn, was dismissed yesterday by a Superior Court judge.

It includes the construction of 6,000 town houses, single-family homes, apartments and condominiums, along with a public golf course on an abandoned landfill, a marina and 500,000 square feet of retail space.

An abandoned landfill near the river's south bank, about 1 km upstream of the North Island Highway (restoration site 2 on watershed map), should be investigated to identify appropriate remedial works.

Altgeld Gardens is a housing community located in south Chicago that was built in 1945 on an abandoned landfill to accommodate returning African-American World War II veterans.

In addition to the wetlands that provide refuge for more than 200 species of birds, the trail will guide hikers through or past lowland forest, baseball fields, a large office park and even an abandoned landfill.

SufalNet, is an INTERREG III.C funded cooperation project, which has developed a model strategy for regenerating former and abandoned landfills.

There are now over 1,280 LNRs in England, covering almost 40,000 hectares, which range from windswept coastal headlands and ancient woodlands to former inner city railways and long abandoned landfill sites.

Cleaning up Cold War relics Ivvavik National Park of Canada Like many aging military facilities, the radar station at Komakuk Beach had environmental problems: deteriorating buildings, abandoned landfills and soil contaminated by fuel spills.

Gahanna also has an aggressive brownfields assessment and redevelopment program that includes the development of a community-wide brownfields inventory, the cleanup of a major abandoned landfill, and city-initiated assessments and demolition of abandoned or environmentally suspect properties.

On a sweltering morning in August, Shaun Donovan, the commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, left his office in Lower Manhattan and headed for an abandoned landfill in Brooklyn.

Depending upon the completeness in identifying active, closed, and abandoned landfills and the level of reliable historical information available, this information may be considered to develop a Tier 3 methodology for the estimation of CH4 emissions from MSW landfills.

The next project came in 1988, when, after years of effort, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey found a private company to develop an an abandoned landfill site the Port Authority owned here next to the New Jersey Turnpike.

The Town of Mayerthorpe proposes to excavate and rip rap approximately a 163 metre long by 9.5 metre wide riparian and in-stream section of the Little Paddle River within Mayerthorpe to remove an abandoned landfill and minimize any further erosion in to the Little Paddle River.

DIAND plans to store information on abandoned waste sites in a GIS based database.

The decision represents a sharp departure from the way courts have been handling lawsuits over who will pay for cleanups under the Superfund program that deals with abandoned waste sites.

Our highly trained professionals have studied abandoned waste sites, landfills, hazardous waste disposal facilities, mining-related sites, manufacturing and industrial complexes, and military bases.

"The cleanup at three abandoned waste sites on the Superfund list was stopped in 1986, when Ohio decided not to accept any more of our waste," Mr. Gimello said.

The judge said Congress enacted the 1980 law to compel the waste disposal industry "to correct its past mistakes and to provide a solution for the dangers posed by inactive abandoned waste sites."

Healthy environments are fostered through activities such as the clean-up of abandoned waste sites, inspections for water licences, the assessment of contaminants in food, and land use permits, leases, and mineral dispositions.

While the state of Oregon allocated a special fund for abandoned waste sites in 1991, it specifically does not cover the Alkali Lake site, which comes from the regular budget for DEQ.

In the last four years, in the E.P.A.'s Superfund program to clean abandoned waste sites, the Government has successfully prosecuted 6 laboratories and 17 individuals for fraud, and three dozen other laboratories are under investigation.

Last month, the state's Attorney General, Robert Abrams, convinced that Radium Chemical could not pay for removing the remaining radium, won a new court order declaring that the building was, in effect, an abandoned waste site.

According to Mayor DeRiggi, efforts to clean up Glen Cove Creek and the abandoned waste site were heightened earlier this year when officials of state and Federal agencies inspected the abandoned tanks, grounds and buildings.

Gordon Davidson, deputy director of the agency's Federal facilities compliance task force, said that eventually as many as a thousand military bases could be on the list, which is prepared under the Federal law governing the cleanup of abandoned waste sites.

The hazardous waste law, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, was adopted in 1980 to help the nation deal with a large and growing number of abandoned waste sites and uncontrolled spills of dangerous substances.

When Congress amended the toxic waste cleanup law in 1986, it added a provision to let the E.P.A. grant up to $150,000 in technical assistance grants to local groups representing people whose homes and health might be threatened by abandoned waste sites.