Free floodplains of hazwaste facilities

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Article

Publication Date

1994

Publication Title

Hazmat World

Abstract

Factories, oil-tank farms, bulk-chemical storage facilities and sewage treatment plants historically have been located along water-ways and within floodplains. Such facilities are built to withstand some flooding; however, a major flood can destroy barriers, rupture storage tanks, and wash out material from hazardous and solid waste landfills, and surface impoundments

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